Dataset
Download a full copy of our data as a set of CSV files, updated on a weekly basis. Perfect for large-scale data analysis.
Open Data
We believe it should be easy to work with European Parliament voting data. That’s why we publish our data under an open license.
Data
We make our data avaialble in multiple ways to suit different use cases – whether you want to conduct a large-scale data analysis or are interested in the results of individual votes.
API
Get real-time access to the latest votes or search for votes by keyword.
Download vote results
Download the results of a single vote as CSV or JSON, ready to be opened in Excel and other tools. Every vote page has download links.
Embed vote results
Embed the results of a single vote on your website using our visualization templates. Every vote page has a link to create and customize a visualization.
License
We make our data available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License, unless otherwise noted.
Photos of MEPs and vote summaries are not covered by the Database Contents License. These contents are sourced from the official website of the European Parliament. Please refer to the respective copyright notice.
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Tutorials
Learn how to work with voting data from HowTheyVote.eu. These tutorials are oriented towards specific, common scenarios we and many users faced.
Tutorials are interactive, and you can execute them directly in your browser, no setup required. To follow along, basic experience with data analysis in the Python programming language is useful. However, you don’t need any prior knowledge about the European Parliament or the HowTheyVote.eu dataset.
Finding close votes on amendments
Learn how to identify amendments that were adopted or rejected with a very close majority.
Which countries have been the focus of parliamentary discussions?
Analyze how current geopolitical events are reflected in European Parliament votes.
Who votes more often with the right?
Learn how to fact-check a claim about which political groups vote with the right-wing groups most often.
Showcase
See how researchers, journalists, NGOs, and public institutions use data from HowTheyVote.eu. Are you using it as well? We’d love to hear from you!
Research
The Centre Is Holding: Coalitions and Majorities in a Fragmented European Parliament
Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies
In this research article, the authors use voting data to analyze how political groups have formed coalitions in the 10th European Parliament.
Analysing political dynamics in the new European Parliament: Political Cleavages and Division Lines
Jacques Delors Institute
In this study, the authors analyze how consistently different political groups and national parties vote together on key issues like the budget, the environment, and foreign relations.
The European Green Deal: Raising Ambitions and Further Developing European Climate Policy (German)
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
In this research article, the authors analyze voting patterns across key legislative initiatives of the European Green Deal.
Multidimensional coalition structures in the 9th European Parliament: a co-voting network backbone approach
NOVA University Lisbon
In this research article, the authors analyze voting data to map how different political groups form shifting alliances across different policy areas, revealing voting patterns that go beyond a simple left-right divide.
Unmasking the far right’s anti-worker agenda
European Economic and Social Committee Worker’s Group
This report analyzes the voting behavior of far-right MEPs in eight key votes such as minimum wages, corporate accountability, gender pay gap, or working conditions of platform workers.
EU Analytics
Nicolai von Ondarza
Once a month, this blog by political scientist Nicolai von Ondarza reviews key votes and political dynamics in the European Parliament and the Council.
Journalism
How porous is the “firewall” against the far right in the EU Parliament? (German)
Süddeutsche Zeitung
In this article, the author uses voting data to identify which successful votes depended on far-right support.
Moscow’s minions: A new pro-Kremlin bloc is taking shape in the European Parliament
Novaya Gazeta Europe, EUobserver
In this article, the authors analyze voting records to identify MEPs that frequently vote in favor of Russian interests.
These are the elected members of the European Parliament (Swedish)
SVT Nyheter
This interactive article by Swedish public broadcaster SVT explores who the Members of the European Parliament are and how similarly they vote, using voting records to visualize relationships and agreement between politicians.
How hard-right EU lawmakers vote on big issues
Deutsche Welle
Journalists from Deutsche Welle analyze the voting behavior of the far-right political groups ECR and ID on issues such as climate change, migration, and support for Ukraine.
The AfD in the European Parliament: More radical than the radicals (German)
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Journalists from German public broadcaster BR conducted a data analysis of voting behavior by MEPs of German far-right party AfD on key issues such as climate change and rule of law.
NGOs
Digital-O-Mat (German)
Digitalcourage Braunschweig
This tool by German NGO Digitalcourage allows users to compare their own views with the actual voting behavior of party representatives on ten key digitalization issues voted on between 2019 and 2024.