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. 2024 Jun 7;37:12. doi: 10.5334/irsp.770

Table 1.

Variables and coding.


VARIABLE LABEL CODING

Year Year 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017

Gender Gender 0 = Man, 1 = Woman

Ethnic, Racial, or Immigrant (ERI) Minority Status ERI 0 = Non-Minority, 1 = Minority

Election Success Won 0 = Lost, 1 = Won

Prior Election Success pWon 0 = Lost, 1 = Won

Margin of Win or Loss Margin_WinLoss –100 to 100 (continuous)

Prior Margin of Win or Loss pMargin_WinLoss –100 to 100 (continuous)

Same Candidate as Prior Election SameCand 0 = Different, 1 = Same

PARTY CODE (N TOTAL) INCLUDED PARTY LISTS

COM (2062) Parti Communiste Français (PCF) n = 1506; Front de Gauche (FDG) n = 556

DIV (4341) Liste Divers, candidates identifying as neither left or right leaning and not officially associated with a party. (Independent)

DVD (2832) Divers Droite, candidates identifying as right leaning but not officially associated with a party. (Independent Right)

DVG (1454) Divers Gauche, candidates identifying as left leaning but not officially associated with a party. (Independent Left)

ECO (4418) Parti Écologiste (PE ou PÉ), Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV)

EXD (1321) Extrême Droite

EXG (4922) Extrême Gauche n = 4365; France Insoumise (FI) n = 557

FN_RN (2265) Front National n = 571; Rassemblement National n = 1694

MODEM (1143) Le Mouvement démocrate (MoDEM or MDM) n = 925; Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) n = 218

NC_UDI (436) Union des Démocrates et Indépendants (UDI) n = 146; Les Centristes – Le Nouveau Centre (LC or NC) n = 105; Parti Radical Valoisien (PRV) n = 100; Parti Social Libéral Européen (PSLE) n = 85

PRG (34) Party Radical de Gauche (PRG) n = 278; Radical de Gauche (RDG) n = 62

REG (147) Régionalistes or Autonomistes (only in 2017)

REM (533) République en Marche n = 468; Le Mouvement Démocrate (MoDEM) n = 65, (only in 2017)

SOC (1786) Parti Socialiste (PS or SOC)

UMP_LR (2461) Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) n = 1588; Les Républicains (LR) n = 481; Debout la France (DLF) n = 392