REIGN Dataset

July 2020 REIGN Dataset: as of July 1st, 2020

New Leaders

• Avdullah Hoti (Center-Right) - Kosovo
• Pascal Nyabenda (Nationalist) - Burundi (Interim)
• Evariste Ndayishimiye (Nationalist) - Burundi
• Michael Martin (Center-Right) - Ireland
• Lazarus Chakewera (Center-Right/Conservative) - Malawi

Key Elections

• Malawi (Opposition victory with leader change) - June 23
• Poland (Runoff round required to settle election) - June 28
• St. Kitts and Nevis (Incumbent victory with no leader change) - June 5

Key July 2020 Elections

• Russia (Constitutional Referendum) - July 1st
• Dominican Republic (General Election) - July 5
• Croatia (Legislative) - July 5
• Poland (Executive - Runoff) - July 12
• North Macedonia (Legislative) - July 15

Version Updates (As of July 1st, 2020)

• Updated precipitation (SPI) estimates using NOAA’s May 2020 PREC/L release (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.prel.html).
• Added final election outcome codings for the following countries: Ireland
• Changed Macedonia to North Macedonia
• Added previously missing election events for the following countries: Russia, Croatia, North Macedonia
• Corrected election date for upcoming election event in Montenegro
• Made coding/typo/date corrections for election events in the following countries: Barbados, Malaysia, Denmark, Myanmar, Namibia, Palau, Tajikistan, Togo, Dominican Republic. (Credit and thanks to Jonas Vesbty for identifying these miscodings)

Find the most current REIGN data here

Find the most current REIGN briefing here

Election and Leader lists (July 2020)

Election List

Leader List

Regime List

Technical Notes

Technical Notes

Questions?

If you are unable to download the data, or have questions/inquiries, please contact Clayton Besaw (cbesaw@oneearthfuture.org). Also feel to contact Clayton if you notice any bugs or wrongly coded data. Thanks!