This is a dataset for the paper "Homophily in Voting Behavior: Evidence from Preferential Voting" (co-authored by Lucie Coufalová and Michal Ševčík) that allows for the replication of all regression tables and descriptive statistics. There are four files in the dataset: "rdata.csv" is the main file with data used in regressions "homo_occupation.csv" is an auxiliary file with data used to calculate some descriptive statistics "municipalities_age.csv" is an auxiliary file with data used to calculate some descriptive statistics "replication_data_20220910.RData" is a file that contains all tables packed and compressed for use in R. Tables rdata...main data table used in regressions homo_occupation...auxiliary data table used in descriptive stats municipality_ages...auxiliary data table used in descriptive stats Variables Outcome: pref...number of preferential votes Variables of interest: homo_municipality...indicator variable for a candidate running in the municipality of his/her residence homo_(education/occupation/age/gender)...percentage of the population sharing the characteristic of the candidate Other variables: KOD_OBEC...municipality ID in CISOB classification total_fe...ID of candidate-election pair maxPORCISLO...number of candidates on the ballot cluster_ID...ID for error term clustering POC_HLASU...total number of votes cast for the party in the given municipality small_municipality...indicator variable for a municipality with a population below the median (defined separately for each year and constituency) year...election year (election ID) VOLKRAJ...constituency ID PORCISLO...position of the candidate on the ballot VEK...age agecat...age category MANDAT...indicator variable for elected candidates tertiary_educ...indicator variable for candidates with tertiary education gender...male/female ger_share...indicator variable for municipality being dominated by ethnic Germans in 1930

Mikula acknowledges financial support as part of a joint grant from the Czech Science Foundation and Austrian Science Fund (GF20-18033L).