Data

Overview of electoral systems used European countries
From this page, you can download country summaries. These files give you the details of the electoral systems used in the country since the first democratic elections. The details included are the electoral formula for the allocation of seats between lists, districts and district magnitude, assembly size, ballot structure (nature of the vote that can be cast) and the method for the allocation of seats within parties.

In addition, you can access the full dataset of electoral systems in Europe since 1945 via our publications page.