HowTheyVote.eu collects data about European Parliament roll-call votes and related data such as biographical information about MEPs and political groups. We provide our dataset in CSV format.
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To download the current dataset click here.
There, you will find the documentation for each data export. At the bottom of each export, you can download all files as a single export.zip file.
Besides downloading the whole export as a single .zip file, you can also download individual files.
These are provided as csv.gz files and are e.g., useful for scripting purposes. For example, the URL https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data/releases/latest/download/votes.csv.gz will always link to the latest available Votes CSV.
As an illustration, using these stable links, the following snippet shows how you can load the Votes table from our export into a pandas dataframe. Executing this code will always load the latest available version of this file.
import pandas as pd
votes_df = pd.read_csv('https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data/releases/latest/download/votes.csv.gz', compression='gzip')
votes_df.head()We also provide a file called last_updated.txt, in which the creation time of the export is stored as a timestamp.