German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2025, Wave 31 (ZA10120)
💻📱 CAWI 👥 14,205 panelists 📅 2025-02-26 - 2025-03-11
🗳️ Covers political attitudes, party & candidate evaluations, actual voting behavior, party contacts, Wahl-O-Mat use, and populism items.
📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2025, Wave 30 (ZA10119)
💻📱 CAWI 👥 14,363 panelists 📅 2025-02-12 - 2025-02-22
🗳️ Covers political attitudes, party & candidate evaluations, intended voting behavior, party contacts, Wahl-O-Mat use, and the TV debate.
📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

Politisches Spektrum: Die große Sehnsucht nach der Mitte Unser interaktives Tool zur politischen Mitte hat großes Interesse hervorgerufen – und wird leidenschaftlich diskutiert. Sieben Erkenntnisse

The reactions to the tool are discussed in a follow-up article:
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Politische Einordnung : Gehören Sie zur politischen Mitte? Migration, Klima, Wirtschaft: Testen Sie, wo Sie politisch stehen, und was die Deutschen insgesamt denken. Aber Achtung: Nicht immer ist die Mitte der beste Ort.

GLES data in the news: "Die Zeit" created a tool to compare your own attitudes on various issues to the attitudes of the GLES Cross-Section 2025 respondents:
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

📢 The Fall Wave (Wave 33) of the GLES Panel is now in the field!
From November 4 to November 17, we are conducting up to 13,000 interviews on a wide range of political topics 🗳️📊
Download the questionnaire (DE/EN) here: 👉 www.gesis.org/en/gles/over...

🚨New GLES release for #BTW25: GLES Candidate Study 2025 (ZA10102)
📅24/03–09/06/2025
👥512 interviews
🗳️Political background & nomination, campaigning, political issues, democracy & representation, sociodemographic background
🌍Includes CCS Module IV (@ccs-project.bsky.social)
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2025, Wave 29 (ZA10118)
💻📱 CAWI 👥 14,328 panelists 📅 2025-01-16 - 2025-01-30
🗳️ Covers political attitudes, party & candidate evaluations, voting behavior, media use & personal values
📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

📢 GLES Tracking T62 data collection has started today! T62 includes questions from the Call for Question regarding digitalization, gender sensitive language, extremism, local politics, and geographical ties. Download questionnaire (DE): 👉 www.gesis.org/gles/ueberbl...

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2024, Wave 28 (ZA10117)
💻📱 CAWI 👥 14,229 panelists 📅 2024-12-11 - 2024-12-22
🗳️ Covers political attitudes, party & candidate evaluations, voting behavior, media use & personal values
📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

🚨A new dataset version of the GLES Cross-Section 2025 (ZA10100, Version 2.0.0) is available!
Corrections of design weights w_ow, q37 (voting decision)
➕ Including English versions of the dataset, adjustment weights
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

🆕 Fully revised GLES Panel questionnaire cumulation covering all waves!
This systematic overview of the question program helps researchers to plan and preregister their analyses.
📄 access.gesis.org/dbk/79344
The document's creation from the wave questionnaires is fully reproducible.
🧪 osf.io/hsgpv/

🚨A new dataset version of the GLES Rolling Cross-Section 2025 (ZA10101, Version 2.0.0) is available!
➕ Including English versions of the dataset and study documentation, adjustment weights, speeder flag, open answers to media questions
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

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The GLES team at @gesis.org is searching for a doctoral candidate to work with us and do research on elections and political attitudes. If this sounds interesting to you, check out the full job announcement here 👇
www.gesis.org/en/institute...

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2024, Profile Wave A5 (ZA7961)
💻📱 CAWI 👥 9,934 new panelists 📅 23/10–19/11/2025
🗳️ Covers sociodemographics, values, personality, political and social attitudes, voting behavior, political knowledge, and media use
📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

🚨 New data release: GLES Tracking May 2025, T61 (ZA10106)
💻📱 CAWI cross-section
👥 1,106 interviews
📅 14/05–23/05/2025
🗳️ Questions on satisfaction with one's own voting decision and the results of the 2025 federal election
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

🚨 Next GLES data release for #BTW25: GLES Cross-Section 2025 (ZA10100)
💻📝 CAWI/PAPI
👥Sample = 7,337
📅 Fieldwork: 24/02/25 - 23/04/25
🌍CSES Module 6 included
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA10100.1.0.0

Visualization of the GLES Rolling Cross-Section 2025 data collection between 06/01/2025 and 03/31/2025, as well as the number of observations.

🚨 New GLES release for #BTW25: GLES Rolling Cross-Section 2025 (ZA10101)
💻📱 CAWI | 👥 daily samples, total n = 8,562
📅 Fieldwork: 06/01/25 – 31/03/25
🔄 Pre- and post-election waves in RCS design plus supplementary wave
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

#Pride #InclusiveScience
GESIS supports diversity, democracy, and an open society. Together with proud@GESIS, our LGBTQIA+ employee network, we promote inclusion, visibility, and a discrimination-free workplace. Stand up for equality and celebrate your diverse identities!

www.gesis.org/pride-...

📢 Call for Questions for the #GLES
The DGfW and @gesis.org are conducting a Call for Questions for ‪#GLES Tracking T62 in October 2025
🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 23.07.2025
🕒 Interview time available: ~5 minutes
🚀 Fieldstart: 22.10.2025
ℹ️ More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/data...

📢 GLES Tracking T61 data collection has started today!
T61 includes questions about the satisfaction with the electoral decision & electoral outcome of the 2025 German federal election.
Download questionnaire (DE): 👉 www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025-federal-election
#BTW2025 #GLES

📢 The post-election wave (Wave 32) of the GLES Panel is in the field! From May 7–20, we’re collecting up to 14,000 interviews on the 2025 German federal election 🗳️📊 – including questions on coalition negotiations.
Download questionnaire (DE): 👉 www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025...
#BTW2025 #GLES

🚨 New GLES data release for #BTW25:
GLES Tracking March 2025 – repeatedly questioned respondents T60W (ZA10132)
💻📱 CAWI survey
👥 n = 977 interviews
📅 Fieldwork: 05–21 March 2025
🗳️ Post-election follow-up survey of a subset of the T60 (ZA10105) respondents.

📥 Access the data: doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

New research using GLES data by
@felixgruenewald.bsky.social 👇

📢 Fieldwork for the GLES Candidate Study 2025 has started!
👥 All candidates of the parties represented in the Bundestag before #BTW2025 are invited
📅 24/03–09/06/2025
💻📝 Mixed mode: CAWI & PAPI
🌍 Collection of CCS Module IV
👉 More information & questionnaire (DE): www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025...

🚨 First GLES data released after #BTW25: GLES Tracking February 2025, T60 (ZA10105)
💻📱 CAWI cross-section
👥 2,227 interviews
📅 11/02–20/02/2025
🗳️ Special focus on the 2025 federal election, candidates & coalitions – plus a new item on the war in Ukraine
➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

📢 Fieldwork for Wave 31 of the GLES Panel Survey has started! From Feb 26 to Mar 11, we’ll collect up to 14,000 interviews on the German #Election2025. 🗳️📊
Download the questionnaire (DE/EN) here: 👉 www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025...
#BTW2025 #Wahl2025