Comprehensive European Parliament Electoral Data (COMEPELDA)

The COMEPELDA collection consolidates information on European Parliament (EP) elections into one comprehensive source. It provides information on formal electoral rules as well as national-level and district-level election results for parties and individual politicians (including full candidate lists). The use of existing and new key variables makes it easy to link the data across the different units of observation (country, party, candidate, MEP) and join them with external information. Currently, the data cover four elections (1999–2014). Please cite the data by referring to the associated journal article (which can be found at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14651165211053439, see also the codebook).