Electoral Management Survey 3.0

This codebook describes a global expert survey of electoral management bodies undertaken during the summer of 2024. The Electoral Management Survey (EMS) 3.0 asks electoral officials about how elections are run in their respective jurisdictions. This codebook describes all variables included in the dataset release of December 2025. This study is conducted by Toby S. James, Holly Ann Garnett, Sonali Campion and Sofia Caal-Lam for the Electoral Integrity Project based at the University of East Anglia, the Royal Military College of Canada, and Queen’s University. This survey follows on from a survey undertaken in 2017-18 and 2023. This dataset is described as version 3.0. The survey was undertaken in collaboration with International IDEA who co-designed and supported the distribution of the survey. Overall, 244 EMBs were contacted across 241 countries. They were invited to complete the survey either online or via a Word doc. The appendix provides the survey circulated. It was provided in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian. The survey contains responses from the 49 EMBs who responded. In most cases these were national EMBs, but some were regional EMBs.