Datasets are sorted by country, and by type of election . Access to datasets is achieved either way.

Description
The CivicActive elections archive is specifically intended to provide election results on a regional level for European countries. The archive covers the results from parliamentary elections, European Parliament elections, presidential elections, as well as EU-related referendums for a total of 30 European countries.

Data content
Most datasets will include data on number of persons entitled to vote, numbers of votes cast for each contesting party or candidate, number of valid votes as well as number of invalid votes. Data regarding votes cast abroad, or votes cast electronically are published where available in the original source.

Aggregation level
In order to promote comparability the archive publishes regional election results according to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), level 1 to 3. The NUTS hierarchy provides a single uniform breakdown of territorial units for the production of regional statistics for the European Union. The basic principles for NUTS can be found here . The majority of datasets in the archive is presented on NUTS levels 1-3, and on country level.

Data collection methods and data sources
Data are collected from national election authorities, national statistical agencies and other official sources. In some cases data are collected from other data archives, such as the PARTCOM project of the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) or the Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe of the University of Essex. All results are sum-controlled and any discrepancies are reported in the documentation. Data are compiled at the lowest level necessary in order to publish data according to the NUTS level 1-3. Aggregation is performed by the NSD.

Updating frequency
Data are updated regularly.

Time series
Data are available for elections and referendums held from 1990 onwards.

Data export and download
The actual data is made available in the software system Nesstar. Data files under the heading "Data for display" is in a tabular format and can only be downloaded to Excel. Data files under the heading "Data for analytic use" is in a rectangular matrix format and can be downloaded as statistical system files for SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc