Facebook pages for parties in 2019 EU parliamentary elections

This dataset contains information about the parties from UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland that ran ads on Facebook during the 2019 EU parliamentary elections. For each party, we manually associated the corresponding Facebook page that ran the ads. We also report the PopuList tags as per https://popu-list.org.

Columns:

• State: the country of the party
• Party: acronym of the party
• Name: extended name of the party:
• Percentage: share of votes in the election
• Facebook page_name: name of the Facebook page that ran the ads
• Facebook page_id: id of the Facebook page that ran the ads
• populist: binary label indicating whether the party is populist according to PopuList
• farright: binary label indicating whether the party is far right according to PopuList
• farleft: binary label indicating whether the party is far left according to PopuList
• eurosceptic: binary label indicating whether the party is eurosceptic according to PopuList
• found on populist: binary label indicating whether the party is on any list on PopuList
• seat: whether the party got a seat in any previous national election (selection criterion from PopuList)