electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-elections-for-the-governments-chief-executive

Elections For The Governments Chief Executive | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 7,863 observations · 44 Europe countries · 1789–2025 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Europe](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 7,863 observations of Elections For The Governments Chief Executive data across 44 Europe countries, spanning 1789–2025.

About the source

• —Source: Our World in Data
• —Publisher: Our World in Data
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Elections For The Governments Chief Executive

Geographic coverage

44 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-elections-for-the-governments-chief-executive")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Elections for chief executive")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_elections_for_the_governments_chief_executive_2025,
  title        = {Elections For The Governments Chief Executive | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/elections-for-the-governments-chief-executive},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-elections-for-the-governments-chief-executive}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-05 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/elections-for-the-governments-chief-executive