Dataset provides information on 3,215 candidates to the European Parliament (EP) from Poland. It covers five EP elections: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2024.
Candidates are coded by election year, constituency, electoral committee (national political parties or electoral coalitions of parties), ballot rank, gender, incumbency, electoral success, national political experience (ex-minister, vice-Prime Minister, Prime Minister), viable/unviable list position. Electoral committees are coded by position towards European integration and positions on GAL-TAN and left-right spectrum (based on Chapel Hill Survey) and number of MEPs elected from a committee per constituency.
Sources of data: National Electoral Commission, Chapel Hill Survey, European Parliament.
Dataset created for a study "Gender Quotas and Women’s Access to Viable List Positions: Evidence from the European Parliament Elections in Poland" (Aleksandra Polak, work in progress).