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Elections Tracker, "<the page's title>", <the page's address>, data as of <the date on the page>.

Sources

Data from a source keeps that source's terms. Party names and results are facts as the official sources publish them.

  • Wikidata (election items) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 UniversalWhat we take: Election dates and identifiers.CC0 1.0: Wikidata's structured data is in the public domain. A Wikidata date alone never makes a date confirmed. (the terms)
  • Wikipedia, the lists of elections by year (dates as facts, no text copied) (source). Licence: Facts, which no licence coversWhat we take: Finding elections and their dates, as facts; no text is copied.Wikipedia's text is CC BY-SA 4.0. We take facts only, an election's name and date, with the article's address; no text is copied. (the terms)
  • Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden: Künftige Wahltermine in Deutschland (source). Licence: Facts, which no licence coversWhat we take: Official dates of German federal and state elections.Reuse allowed for any purpose with the source named: "Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden"; changes must be marked. (the terms)
  • Ministère de l'Intérieur, data.gouv.fr (election datasets) (source). Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence version 2.0What we take: Official dates of French elections.Licence Ouverte 2.0: free reuse, commercial or not, naming the source and the date of its last update. (the terms)
  • Official notices read by hand (each date's notice is named beside it). Licence: Facts, which no licence coversWhat we take: Dates confirmed from decrees, laws and electoral bodies.Polling days are facts. Each notice is named beside the date it sets; some are under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 or the Open Government Licence v3.0.
  • ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 UniversalWhat we take: Results by party of national and European Parliament elections in 37 countries, 1900 to 2023.CC0 1.0: ParlGov's data is in the public domain; we cite it as its authors ask.Cite as: Döring, Holger and Philip Manow. 2024. "Parliaments and governments database (ParlGov): Information on parties, elections and cabinets in established democracies." https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2VZ5ZC
  • Party Facts, Version 2023 (Bederke, Döring and Regel), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 UniversalWhat we take: Which party is which across sources.CC0 1.0: Party Facts' data is in the public domain; we cite it as its authors ask. (the terms)Cite as: Bederke, Paul; Döring, Holger; Regel, Sven, 2023, "Party Facts, Version 2023", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TJINLQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1.1; and Döring, H., and Regel, S. (2019), Party Facts: A database of political parties worldwide, Party Politics 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068818820671
  • House of Commons Library. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. (source). Licence: Open Parliament Licence v3.0What we take: UK general election results, 2010 to 2024.Open Parliament Licence v3.0: free reuse, commercial or not, with the attribution the licence gives. (the terms)
  • Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden (source). Licence: Data licence Germany, attribution, version 2.0What we take: Bundestag results, 2021 and 2025.Datenlizenz Deutschland, Namensnennung 2.0: reuse for any purpose naming "Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden"; our tables mark that they are shown in our own layout, with shares rounded. (the terms)
  • Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden; Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) (source). Licence: Data licence Germany, attribution, version 2.0What we take: Bundestag results, 2021 and 2025.Datenlizenz Deutschland, Namensnennung 2.0: reuse for any purpose naming "Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden"; our tables mark that they are shown in our own layout, with shares rounded. (the terms)
  • Australian Electoral Commission, AEC Tally Room. Copyright Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0; shown in our own layout and not endorsed by the AEC. (source). Licence: CC BY 4.0What we take: Australian federal election of 2025: results by party, seats and turnout.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): free reuse, commercial or not, crediting the Australian Electoral Commission and its copyright. Our tables are shown in our own layout and imply no endorsement by the AEC. (the terms)
  • data.gouv.fr, Ministère de l'Intérieur: Données des élections agrégées (source). Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence version 2.0What we take: French results and turnout since 1999.Licence Ouverte 2.0: free reuse, commercial or not, naming the source and the date of its last update, which each results table gives. (the terms)
  • Kiesraad, Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer, on data.overheid.nl (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 UniversalWhat we take: Tweede Kamer results, 2023 and 2025.CC0 1.0: the dataset pages give the Kiesraad's files this licence. The Kiesraad calls the CSV research data, not its official result, and each results table says so with what we checked: the votes of every list equal the Kiesraad's own national count, which this page links. (the terms)
  • Kiesraad, national count of the Tweede Kamer election (EML), on data.overheid.nl (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 UniversalWhat we take: Tweede Kamer results, 2023 and 2025.CC0 1.0: the dataset pages give the Kiesraad's files this licence. The Kiesraad calls the CSV research data, not its official result, and each results table says so with what we checked: the votes of every list equal the Kiesraad's own national count, which this page links. (the terms)
  • Valmyndigheten, Slutligt valresultat riksdagen (open data) (source). Licence: Valmyndigheten open data terms: free to use, Valmyndigheten named as the sourceWhat we take: Riksdag results, 2026.Valmyndigheten's open data terms: all data is free to use, provided Valmyndigheten is named as the source. No licence code is named. (the terms)
  • European Parliament, results of the 2024 European elections (data sheets) (source). Licence: European Parliament legal notice: reuse authorised, source acknowledgedWhat we take: European Parliament election results by national party, 2024.The European Parliament's legal notice authorises reuse, commercial or not, with the source acknowledged; a partial reproduction cites the address of the complete item, which each results table gives under its copyright line. (the terms)
  • Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 UniversalWhat we take: The colour each party is drawn in.CC0 1.0: Wikidata's structured data is in the public domain. Read once into a table we review. (the terms)
  • Daten von dawum.de (Open Database License (ODbL)) (source). Licence: Open Database License 1.0What we take: German opinion polls for the Bundestag and the state parliaments, on the German poll pages only.Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0: reuse, commercial or not, with the credit "Daten von dawum.de (Open Database License (ODbL))" and links to both. Our averages are computed from the polls as DAWUM publishes them; each poll page states how. (the terms)

Other material

Not a source of any page's data, with its terms.

  • Country flags: the country-flags collection of flag drawings from Wikimedia Commons (source)What we take: The flag beside a country's name.Flags: public domain, from Wikimedia Commons through the country-flags collection. (the terms)
  • Ministère de l'Intérieur, grille des nuances individuelles des élections législatives 2024, as published by the Préfecture de l'Essonne (source)What we take: The names of two French political labels of 2024 (UG, UXD).An official document of the Ministry of the Interior: we take the meaning of two labels (UG, UXD), as facts. (the terms)