Dataset of turnout rates for mobile EU citizens in European Parliament and municipal elections 2009-2018, v.1.1

Abstract

The dataset contains information on turnout in the most recent municipal elections prior to 1 January 2019 to which EU Directive 94/80/EC applied, and also to the two most recent European Parliament elections prior to the May 2019 contest, to which EU Directive 93/108/EC applied. Sources include official data in the public domain (e.g., official results from electoral commissions and parliamentary documents); publicly available research data; links to official figures from reputable secondary sources (e.g., European Commission implementation reports, press releases and newspaper articles); approaches via FAIREU country experts to national authorities, with formal freedom of information requests; and direct approaches from the authors to national authorities, with informal freedom of information requests or requests for clarifications.