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This JRC Science for Policy Report provides a series of demographic and territorial analyses centred on the electoral participation of European voters in the European Parliament elections of 2019. Its main purpose is to analyse turnout dispersion from a territorial and demographic perspective across Europe and to identify target territories and audiences in the lead up to the 2024 EP elections, thus supporting the European Commission’s action of promoting and enhancing citizens' participation in the democratic life of the EU. The work relies on a unique dataset that harmonises Member States electoral data with territorial and demographic data from EUROSTAT and National statistical institutes at municipal level, corresponding to EUROSTAT’s Local Administrative Units (LAU). For each municipality, the harmonised dataset holds the electoral statistics on voters’ participation (registered electors, turnout, valid and invalid votes), its population, population density, and its classification by degree of urbanisation (three categories: Cities-densely populated areas; Towns and suburbs-intermediate density areas; and Rural areas-thinly populated areas). For some Member States, when the original source made the information available at the municipal level, the dataset comprises information concerning the participation of nationals abroad, as well as the registration and participation of EU mobile residents. ; JRC.E.5 - Demography and Migration |