Welcome to the European Election Studies (EES)
The European Election Studies (EES) offer data about electoral behaviour in European Parliament elections. Collecting survey data as well as a variety of other data types, they cover topics such as the evolution of a political community in the European Union, citizens' perceptions of and preferences about the EU political regime, and the evaluation of its political performance. They offer wide opportunities for comparative and longitudinal analyses across the EU member states.
The EES is run under the responsibility of the international European Election Research Group constituted by political and social scientists from academic institutions across Europe.
Besides 'voter surveys' conducted since 1979, the EES program comprises political elite surveys, media studies and the Euromanifestos project, which is content-coding Party Manifestos. Until 1994, the question modules of the voter survey were part of the European Commission's Eurobarometer surveys. Starting with the 1999 elections, the European Election Studies surveys are collected independently from Eurobarometer surveys.
European Election Studies by Year and Study Component
Access to primary data
Primary data and documentation for all European Election Studies and related Eurobarometer stored at GESIS are available for download through the respective study description entry in the GESIS data catalogue as soon as you have signed in (registration required). Download is free of charge.
The ELITE STUDIES (except public use files) are subject to special permission and usage conditions. The data have to be ordered through the GESIS data catalogue.
Online search in the EES bibliography
A selection of publications using EES data can be found in the GESIS search.
EES Steering Committee and Contact
- Katjana Gattermann, University of Amsterdam, E-Mail
- Sara B. Hobolt, London School of Economics and Political Science, E-Mail
- Alexia Katsanidou, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, E-Mail
- Sebastian Popa, Newcastle University, E-Mail
- Miriam Sorace, University of Kent, E-Mail
- Ilke Toygur, IE University, Spain, E-Mail
- Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam, E-Mail
Data Service
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Telefon: +49-221-47694-420
E-Mail: datenservice(dot)das(at)gesis(dot)org
- Information on the elections to the European Parliament
- Parties and Elections in Europe - database on parliamentary elections in Europe since 1945
- EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory at EUI, including access to EU-Profiler (doi:10.4232/1.11689)
- ParlGov - data infrastructure for political science
- Chapel Hill Expert Surveys (CHES) [by Liesbet Hooghe] - estimating party positions on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties
- RDC Elections - German national election studies
