MORElab - Political party and candidate tweets for the campaign period of the 2015 Spanish general election

Political party and candidate tweets for the campaign period of the 2015 Spanish general election

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License:
Apache Public License

Description

his dataset contains the political party and candidate tweets for the campaign period (4th to 18th of December) of the 2015 Spanish general election (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_general_election,_2015). The 2015 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 20 December 2015, to elect the 11th Cortes Generales of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. The dataset contains 45,804 tweets. Please, use the following reference if you use this dataset for your research: Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Aritz Bilbao. Party and candidate tweets for the campaign period of the 2015 spanish general election. URL: https://github.com/aitoralmeida/spanish_general_election_2015/

Citation

Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Aritz Bilbao Jayo. (2018) "Political party and candidate tweets for the campaign period of the 2015 Spanish general election." Available from: https://github.com/aitoralmeida/spanish_general_election_2015