Study title

European Parliamentary Elections in All Member States 1979-2004

Dataset ID Number

FSD2004

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2004
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2004

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Helin, Juha (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)
• Suojanen, Maria (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)

Abstract

The data includes country-specific information on elections in the Member States of the European union, for example, years of European Parliamentary elections, number of elections and constituencies, electoral system, information on voting threshold and compulsory voting, voter turnout, total number of voters for each election, number of representatives, vote and seat share of parties, and European Parliamentary group membership of representatives.

Keywords

European Parliament; European Parliament elections; European Union; elections; political parties; voting

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• International politics and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

Data Collector

• Helin, Juha (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)
• Suojanen, Maria (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)

Time Period Covered

1979 – 2004

Collection Dates

2001-08 – 2004-08-13

Nation

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia

Geographical Coverage

Member States of the European Union, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Political-administrative area (Country)

Universe

European Parliamentary Elections in All Member States from 1979 to 2004

Time Method

Time series

Data Sources

Information on elections during 1979-1994: European Union's information office, Luxembourg. Information on the elections of the years 1999 and 2004: (Year 1999 http://www3.europarl.eu.int/election/results/fi/maps_fi.htm and year 2004 http://www.elections2004.eu.int/ep-election/sites/fi/results1306/index.html). Other sources: compilations of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/europa_e.htm), election reports of the Electoral Studies journal and Julie Smith's book Europe's Elected Parliament (1999), Sheffield Academic Press. - (Contemporary European studies; 5).

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Collection Mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Research Instrument

Data collection guidelines: Secondary data collection guide

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: English.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Number of Cases and Variables

688 variables and 25 cases.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The variables of the data have been named in the following way: pxyyp is the vote share (%) of x:th party in the elections of the year yy; pxyys is the number of seats obtained by x:th party in the elections of the year yy; pxyyop is the seat share (%) of x:th party in the elections of the year yy; pnxyy is the name of x:th party; gnxyya is the name of the European Parliamentary group to which members of x:th party belonged after the elections of yy; gnrxyya is the number of representatives of x:th party belonging to the above-mentioned group. If party representatives have divided into several parliamentary groups, than gnxyyb is the name of the (second) group to which members of x:th party belonged to after the elections of yy; gnrxyyb is the number of representatives of x:th party belonging to the above-mentioned group. If party representatives have divided into a third parliamentary group, then gnxyyc is the name of the (third) group to which members of x:th party belonged to after the elections of yy; gnrxyyc is the number of representatives of x:th party belonging to the above-mentioned group.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Helin, Juha (University of Turku) & Suojanen, Maria (University of Turku): European Parliamentary Elections in All Member States 1979-2004 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2004-09-03). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2004

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

FSD has not been informed of any publications related to the data.