Electoral Volatility in the EP - Parties above 1%

QoG code: evep_altv

Electoral volatility in the European Parliament, caused by vote switching between parties that enter or exit from the party system caused by vote switching between existing parties, namely parties receiving at least 1% of the national share in both elections under scrutiny.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-11-28
Last updated by source
2024-07-16
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 28
Standard time-series 28
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1984-2024

Country coverage

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  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1984 to 2024.