10.7910/DVN/RFRCZSLarsen, Erik GahnerErik GahnerLarsenUniversity of KentMattia ZulianelloMattiaZulianelloUniversity of BirminghamHarvard Dataverse2021Social SciencesLarsen, Erik GahnerErik GahnerLarsenUniversity of Kent2021-02-112021-02-1224347899text/tab-separated-valuestext/markdown1.0CC0 WaiverA dataset on the support for populist parties in elections for the European Parliament for the main ideational varieties of populist parties: left populists, right populists, and valence populists. The dataset provides temporal and spatial coverage including 92 populist parties that in at least one EP election over the period 1979-2019 received at least 1% of the votes.