Datasets

Election results for all general elections since 1964 are available below. You can download the results as a PDF file or as a spreadsheet. Remember, the best place to start if you just want to explore election results is the Data Explorer. If you want to know about changes over time, or if you want to read analysis of electoral trends, have a look at the Analysis page.

Please note, the election results on this website are not official election results. The results are for research only. If you want official election results, it is possible you may be able obtain them by contacting the Office of the Electoral Commissioner or from the Parliament of Samoa.

Although we have taken all possible care in their compilation, we cannot guarantee that the results are free of errors. If you believe you have found an error in the data or have questions about the data, please email: terence.wood@anu.edu.au.

The election results downloads include important information about the data they contain. Please make sure you read this information before you make use of the data within the downloads.

If you wish to cite the election data, please cite them in the following way: Wood Terence, 2018. Samoa Election Results Database. Accessed online at: http://devpolicy.org/samoaelections/datasets/

PDF download

We recommend the PDF download if you are interested in electoral history, or if you simply require results for a particular electorate or a particular year. Unless you are conducting quantitative analysis, the PDF download is easier to use than the spreadsheet. We have excluded all results with known data issues from the PDF download.

Click here to download our PDF download.

Excel download

Click here for the full set of results. This version contains all the variables created in our work. Only use this version if you are familiar with the data and need to conduct complicated analysis.