European Parliament elections and women's representation. Comprehensive data on MEPs, national political parties, and member states' electoral systems, 2004-2019

Original dataset of more than 3,050 observations on Members of European Parliament, 741 national parties and 110 electoral systems across all EU member states, spanning four European elections from 2004 to 2019 (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th term of the European Parliament.Variables include:Percentage of female MEPs per every national party and every country in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth term of the European Parliament;National parties’ position on European integration, their ideological stances (socio-economic dimension), and views on social and cultural values (GAL-TAN), coded based on Chapell Hill Surveys;Party system fragmentation in every Member State, ballot types, gender quotas, cultural values (based on European Parliament data, COMEPELDA (Däubler et al, 2022), Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Maps, World Value Survey, Eurostat).