On this page you can keep track of the Database updates.
28 July 2023
Smaller corrections were made in Dataset 2 regarding the 1992 Parliamentary Elections, results per municipality.
Codebook for Dataset 2 was updated accordingly.
9 July 2023
Updates and smaller corrections were made in Dataset 1, Codebook for Dataset 1, Dataset 2, List of all party/coalition names and abbreviations, and the document containing information on party splits and mergers.
For a detailed report please check the July 2023 Update PDF document (available below).
14 June 2023
Updates and smaller corrections were made in Dataset 1, Dataset 3, Dataset 4, and Electoral Maps Booklet.
For Datasets, it was mostly correcting some typing errors after I checked the whole project once again, but in some places it also involved correcting some data entries after consulting additional sources (for example, when I noted a mismatch in the table according to the data taken from statistical yearbooks, I searched for other types of official data sources that I can rely on to fix this).
For Electoral Maps Booklet, there was just a single correction for 1990 Electoral Map regarding the composition of a coalition representing minorities in Montenegro.
For a detailed report please check the June 2023 Update PDF document (available below).
20 April 2022
Major updates to the whole Database
Database now successfully hosted at a new URL address which is easy to find and will respond to search engine requests for “elections in Montenegro”, “elections in Montenegro database”, “political parties in Montenegro” and similar phrases and keywords.
Visual identity updated in a re-branding process: new logo and the new color palette now represent the Montenegrin Elections (MNEE) Database Project. The logo represents a ballot box which is colored in black and yellow and inside that box are the large letter “M” (beginning of “MNEE” phrase) and smaller letters “nee” which visually remind of the balls inserted in a ballot box. Inserting balls inside the ballot box was the very first kind of voting adopted in Montenegro.
The two main colors that represent the Database are dark yellow and black, while the default font combination is that of Quicksand and Garamond.
NEW – Dataset 4
Now part of the MNEE Database! Dataset 4 includes data on federal elections held during the time of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2002). Data is presented for the constituencies located on the territory of then-Republic of Montenegro. Codebook for this dataset is also available. Additional insight into the federal elections can be gained by consulting updated Electoral Maps Booklet which now contains also maps for federal elections.
NEW – Dataset 3
Now part of the MNEE Database! Dataset 3 includes data on local elections, both for the election of councilors and the presidents of municipalities. Dataset 3 files include three MS Excel files (for the election of councilors 1990-2006, for the election of councilors 2008-2020, and for the election of the presidents of municipalities 2004-2009) and a codebook.
NEW – Dates when local elections were held
New document that contains dates of all elections (parliamentary, presidential, local, and federal) held on the territory of Montenegro since 1990 is now available.
UPDATED – file names
To make the navigation through MNEE Database files easier, file names were changed and a single format is used.
a) For datasets and electoral maps:
database name _ datasetX (or booklet) . file extension
for example:
mnee_dataset1.xlsx
mnee_dataset2.xlsx
…
mnee_electoralmaps.pdf
For supporting documentation:
database name _ related dataset or booklet _ name of document . file extension
for example:
mnee_dataset3_codebook.pdf
mnee_alldatasets_datesofelections.pdf
Dataset 2
No major changes since the last update on 6 May 2021.
Dataset 1
For the sake of simplicity, data sheets renamed. Now the MS Excel file includes three data sheets: parliamentary_allparties, parliamentary_ inparliament, and presidential. Old data sheet names were: MNE_Parliamentary_e_allparties, MNE_Parliamentary_e_partinparl and MNE_Presidential elections.
Otherwise, no major changes in the data concerning elections.
Codebooks for Dataset 1 and Dataset 2
Updated to reflect changes in the re-branding of the MNEE project and to provide new contact information due to the change of web site domain (previously hosted at “mnee.me”). Included are some minor text updates, otherwise, no major changes.
List of Abbreviations
Updated to reflect new data entries from Dataset 3 and Dataset 4.
6 May 2021
Dataset 1 and Dataset 2:
- Abbreviation for the People’s Party (Narodna stranka) was changed from “NS” to the old label “NSCG” used by the Republic Electoral Commission in its official reports. This was done to avoid confusion with the coalition People’s Unity (Narodna sloga, now referred to in the datasets as “NS”) and People’s Unity – Novak Kilibarda (Narodna sloga – Dr Novak Kilibarda, now referred to as “NSNK”).
- Abbreviation for the Liberal Party of Montenegro (Liberalna partija Crne Gore, not to be confused with Liberal Alliance of Montenegro) changed from “LP” to “LPCG” and corrected in case of coalitions.
Dataset 2:
- Corrected a typing error in Presidential_1997_R1_Pobjeda data sheet: instead of 1007 votes for Djukanovic in the municipality of Rožaje, it is now correctly displaying 10007.
Electoral Maps booklet:
- added a missing page number at page 21.