SAGE: Isle of Man, vote returns as CSV
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One file per election year: 2026.
Rows: 83. Each row is one party or candidate in one electoral unit, year and
election type. Files are UTF-8 (with a byte-order mark for Excel); empty cells are missing.

Before you add up votes:
  * A year can hold several contests. Filter on election_type, and on special_type
    and round where the file has them, before you sum. Otherwise you count the same
    voters more than once (in Germany, for example, special_type separates the first
    and second vote).
  * geometry_type_b says where a location comes from. "Missing" means the unit has no
    location; "Inferred" means I placed it from its position in the official list.
  * geocode_duplicates above 1 means several units share one point.
  * total_votes is the unit total (valid votes), repeated on each party row.

Columns in these files:
  country, iso3, year, election_type, NAME1, NAME1_b, party, party_b, candidate, votes, total_votes, reg, turnout_reg, latitude, longitude, geometry_type, geometry_type_b, geometry_level, match_confidence, geocode_duplicates

The boundaries (GeoPackage) join to these rows on year and the NAME columns.

Other years and formats, the boundaries, and the codebook for this country (column
definitions and notes on sources) are at
  https://noahdasanaike.github.io/sage.html#download
That page also has the R and Python packages and the interactive map.

Note: some years have more rows than Excel can open (1,048,576). Use R, Python,
Stata or a database for those.

Please cite:
Dasanaike, Noah. "The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset." Scientific Data (2026).
Dasanaike, Noah. The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset. Harvard Dataverse,
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YGJR1L (2026).
