Descriptive representation of immigrant-origin citizens at the 2018 Local elections in Flanders

<p>This dataset contains information about the descriptive representation of immigrant-origin citizens&nbsp;at the 2018 local elections in Flanders. It covers&nbsp;31,176&nbsp;candidates over&nbsp;1,312&nbsp;lists. For each candidate list, this dataset contains information about the percentage of immigrant-origin candidates, their average relative list position and the proportion of elected immigrant-origin candidates. Extra variables are added at the party level (e.g.&nbsp;whether it was part of the local government prior to the 2018 local elections or whether the head of list had an immigrant background) and municipality level (e.g.&nbsp;population density or percentage of the immigrant-origin population) to allow a profound examination of which factors steer the descriptive representation of immigrant-origin citizens.</p> <p>The updated version also includes information about the gendered selection of the immigrant-origin candidates. During this additional coding process, I discovered some small coding errors included in the original version. These errors are corrected in the updated version.&nbsp;</p>