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

1 data file,1 documentation fileThe 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.This report was funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020