Participation in the Czech Pirate Party - voting turnout

To analyze participation, we gathered data from the Pirate Party Forum, focusing specifically on consultation threads that occurred between 2017 and 2023. The objective of this data collection was to provide a quantitative assessment of various aspects of these consultations. In total, 103 consultations were analyzed. The dataset includes several key metrics. The first metric is voter turnout, which represents the number of members who participated in the voting process for each consultation. We also recorded the number of eligible voters, defined as the total number of party members with voting rights. Another important metric is the number of comments within the consultation threads, used as an indicator of member engagement and the extent of discussions surrounding each consultation topic. Additionally, we examined the number of votes received by the winning options in each consultation, which reveals the level of support for the winning variant and helps determine whether the results exhibit a plebiscitary character. Finally, we tracked the number of days during which voting was open for each consultation. For each of these metrics, annual averages were calculated to identify trends and changes over time.

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