GLES Panel 2024, Wave 26

The German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) is the central infrastructure project in Germany for the continuous collection and provision of high-quality data for national and international election research. The methodologically diverse surveys of the GLES enable the research of political attitudes and behavior of voters and candidates. Since its foundation, the GLES has been conducted in close cooperation between the German Society for Electoral Research (DGfW) and GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Sample A of the GLES Panel consists of quota-based selections of eligible German voters from several non-probability online panels, divided into five subsamples. Participants in the 2017 election campaign surveys were drawn from the main sample A1 (2016), the recontact sample A2 (2013), and the refreshment sample A3 (2017) of the GLES Short-term Campaign Panel 2017. Sample A was further supplemented by refreshment samples A4 for the 2021 election campaign (2020). The study comprises questions on Intention to vote und vote choice, European elections, political involvement, political attitudes, perceptions of problems, and evaluations of political actors.