Data & downloads

Every table on this site downloads as CSV (UTF-8, RFC 4180) or JSON. The 10th term only, from July 2024. Source: European Parliament, CC BY 4.0.

Downloads

Whole-term files. Register exports take the same filters as the register page (its query string); the Export menu on each page links them with the page’s filters.

Decisions decisions
Every decision of the term: date, kind, text, dossier, effect, the final vote’s counts and record, topics. Takes the decision register’s filters.

CSV CSV’s meta JSON
Roll-call votes votes
Every roll-call vote: the vote in words, its decision, kind, counts, outcome, the groups that requested it. Takes the vote register’s filters.

CSV CSV’s meta JSON
Member records records?period=term&scope=all
Every current and former member’s roll-call participation, votes with the majority line and against the clear line, with denominators (group at the date).

CSV CSV’s meta JSON
Dossiers dossiers
Every dossier with a decision in plenary: reference, type, stage, lead committee, decisions, first and last date.

CSV CSV’s meta JSON
Final votes × members finals-matrix
One row per final vote recorded by name, one column per member; positions as words (see the codebook).

CSV CSV’s meta JSON
Final votes × members, W-NOMINATE coding finals-matrix?coding=wnominate
The same matrix coded 1 / 6 / 9 / 0 for W-NOMINATE, pscl and similar packages.

CSV CSV’s meta JSON
Members members
The member sheet of the codebook: id, name, country, national party, start and end, group spans.

CSV CSV’s meta JSON

Exports of one object or analysis

Replace the parts in angle brackets; add .csv or .json (and .meta.json for a CSV’s meta). The same links sit in the Export menu of each page.

/export/vote/<date>/<votingId>.csv
Every member’s position on one roll-call vote, with the group at the date and whether it was against the group’s clear line. Add -crosstab for country × group counts. Example
/export/decision/<date>/<n>/votes.csv
Every vote on one decision in voting order: kind, counts, record, who requested it, the split part’s wording. Example
/export/member/<id>/votes.csv
One member’s position on every roll-call vote of the term, with the group’s line. Example
/export/grid/<procId>.csv
A dossier’s voting grid: every roll-call vote on it × every group’s line. Example
/export/analysis/coalitions.csv
Group × group agreement, groups on the winning side and pivotal groups, with the tool’s filters.
/export/analysis/cohesion.csv
Cohesion per group or delegation and period, with the tool’s filters.
/export/analysis/members.csv
Pairwise agreement of the chosen members and the votes where they differ.
/export/analysis/dissent.csv
Votes against the group’s clear line per member, with rates and denominators.

Codebook

The columns of the two bulk files. Every JSON export is an object with meta and rows; CSV files carry the same columns.

Every export’s `meta`

source and licence; retrieved (timestamp); filters as the backend understood them; data — the vote matrix’s builtAt, its data stamp hash (a short hash of the source tables’ change stamps: it changes whenever the data may have changed, it is not a checksum of the content — Methods), the backend’s code commit and every metric’s version; notes on coding and caveats. Figures are at full precision; rounding happens on screen only.

A JSON export carries meta beside its rows. A CSV file has only the columns, so its meta is served beside it: add .meta.json in place of .csv, with the same query — /export/records.meta.json?period=term&scope=all describes /export/records.csv?period=term&scope=all. Keep the two files together when you archive or share a CSV.

Final votes × members `finals-matrix`

One row per final vote recorded by name, agenda motions left out. Takes the analysis filters (from, to, committee, topic).

Column and meaning.
Column	Meaning
`date`	Sitting date (ISO 8601).
`sitting_id`	The EP’s sitting id, MTG-PL-YYYY-MM-DD.
`n`	The decision’s number on its sitting day — stable; /decisions/<date>/<n>.
`voting_id`	The EP’s id of the vote; /votes/<date>/<voting_id>.
`title`	The decision’s title.
`category`	Kind of decision: legislation, consent, budget, objection, resolution, immunity, other.
`committee`	Lead committee of the dossier (code), empty when none.
`outcome`	The official result of the vote (ADOPTED, REJECTED …).
`favor, against, abstention`	Official counts.
`m<id>`	One column per member: m + the EP person id (see the members file).

Member cells: the default words and the `?coding=wnominate` numbers.
Words	W-NOMINATE	Meaning
`for`	`1`	Voted for.
`against`	`6`	Voted against.
`abstention`	`9`	Abstained.
`novote`	`9`	In office that day, no vote recorded (not the same as absent: leave, illness, chairing the sitting look the same).
`out`	`0`	Not a member on that day.

Members `members`

Every member of the term with a vote record or a current seat. Group codes as the EP writes them (PPE = EPP, PfE = Patriots, Verts/ALE = Greens, NI = non-attached).

Column and meaning.
Column	Meaning
`member_id`	The EP person id (the m<id> columns of the matrix, /members/<id>).
`name`	As the EP writes it, family name in capitals.
`country`	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
`gender`	As recorded by the EP.
`current`	true while the member sits today.
`start, left`	First day in office this term; last day for former members (empty = in office).
`group_now_or_last`	Group code now, or on the last day in office.
`group_spans`	Every group membership this term, “CODE start–end; …” (empty end = ongoing). Votes are counted in the group of the day.
`changed_group`	true when the spans hold more than one group (⇄ on the site).
`national_party`	National party (EP label).
`no_membership_record`	true when the EP has no group membership record: the current group is used from the first recorded vote.

How to cite the dataset

Cite the retrieval date; for a single figure, cite its page instead — every object and analysis page has its own citation, analyses with the period pinned.

Data last updated 24 Sept 2026, 05:54 UTC. Each export’s meta.data names the exact data version.

Plain text

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). European Parliament roll-call votes, 10th term (dataset). https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/data (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0). Source: European Parliament.

BibTeX

@misc{epw-dataset-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{European Parliament roll-call votes, 10th term}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/data}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/data},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  note = {Dataset. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Source: European Parliament.}
}

Licence, stability and scope

Licence. The data comes from the European Parliament’s Open Data Portal under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as “Source: European Parliament”.
Stable URLs. The /export/… addresses and their parameters are the stable interface of this site; scripts can rely on them. Column changes are announced on Methods.
Scope. The 10th parliamentary term only (from 16 July 2024), updated daily. Roll-call votes with named positions; votes by show of hands or counted without names have no member positions.
As recorded. Positions are as the EP recorded them; later corrections of voting intention are not applied (they never change a result).