European Election Studies (EES) 2024

The 2024 European Election Study (EES) Voter Study is a post-election study conducted in all member states after the elections to the European Parliament were held between June 6 and 9, 2024.

While data are unavailable at this point, the first release of the EES 2024 voter study is scheduled for November 2024.

The 2024 EES voter study was conducted by Demoscopy. As in the previous EES 2019 round, data was predominantly conducted via online interviews. The respondents were selected randomly from access panel databases using stratification variables. In all countries, the samples were stratified by gender, age, region and type of locality. In each member state, about 1,000 interviews were conducted (with the exception of Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta, where 500 interviews were envisaged). Hence, the resulting expected sample size is about 25,500 interviews.

The EES 2024 Voter Study questionnaire was designed by the EES 2024 Executive Board, consisting of Sebastian Adrian Popa, Wouter van der Brug, Sara Hobolt, Alexia Katsanidou, Katjana Gattermann, Miriam Sorace, Ilke Toygür, and Claes de Vreese, after consultation with the wider EES community.

As in previous EES rounds, the questionnaire includes core traditional items included in previous EES voter studies (1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019), thus allowing for over-time as well as cross-national analysis. The study covers items on electoral behavior, such as questions on turnout and vote choice at the European and previous national elections, party preferences, propensity to vote questions, government approval, general political attitudes, interest in politics, demographics such as gender, age, education, religion etc. Innovations in the EES 2024 include questions about disinformation in the media regarding the EP election, military assistance to Ukraine, and democratic governance. The question on attitudes on the environment was replaced with a question on attitudes on climate change. To capture the debates on feminism a well-tested question on gender roles was included. As in the case of the EES Study 2014 and 2019 Voter Studies, a number of the political attitude questions have the same wording as, and can hence be linked with, the Chapel Hill Expert Survey. An additional innovation is the offer of NUTS III information, which after anonymisation checks will be offered at a later stage.

Overall, country questionnaires follow the EES master questionnaire across all member states apart from differences originating from party names or country-specific institutions. The translation process was supported by a network of national collaborators and we are grateful to them for their help.

We encourage users of the data to contact us should they spot any errors or anomalies in the data via email at katharina.blinzler(at)gesis(dot)org.

The EES 2024 Voter Study was generously funded by the EES community. We were only able to conduct the data collection thanks to the generous support of induvial researchers and project groups, who used their research money to support the common good that is the EES. We are grateful to The Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, Prof. Markus Wagner and his ERC Project PARTISAN, Prof. Joost van Spanje and his ERC Project NEWNEWS, Prof. Heike Klüver and Prof. Sara Hobolt and their Volkswagen Project COVIDEU, Prof. Silja Häusermann, Prof. Jonathan B. Slapin, Prof. Liesbet Hooghe and Prof. Gary Marks and their ERC Project TRANSNATIONAL, Prof. Giacomo Benedetto, Prof. Katjana Gattermann and Prof. Claes de Vreese, Prof. Catherine De Vries and her ERC project LOSS, Prof. Henk van der Kolk, Prof. Gail McElroy  and Prof. Jos Dornschneider-Elkink, Prof. Henrik Oscarsson, Prof. Jonathan Polk, Prof. Juan Antonio Mayoral Diaz-Asensio, Prof. Sven Oliver Proksch, and Prof. Georg Lutz. GESIS provided the institutional structure to make this possible.

Interested researchers can retrieve the here: EES 2024 Master Questionnaire (301 kB).