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What parties say on social media
PartySOME has collected 9.5 million posts from 478 political parties in 38 countries, and sorts them by the policy issue they talk about. Search for a word, follow an issue over time, or compare parties, countries and platforms. Updated daily, free to use.
- countries
- 38
- parties
- 478
- platforms
- 7
- posts
- 9.5M
- data since
- 2006
Platforms: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, Bluesky, YouTube. Updated daily – latest post 2026-11-14.
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Search a word →See how often parties use a word or phrase, over time and party by party.Compare parties on an issue →How much attention parties, party families and countries give to the economy, immigration, the environment and 18 other policy issues.Explore a party →Find any party, see where it posts, how much, and what it talks about.Compare platforms →How much parties post on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and others, and how that changed.
PartySOME is a research project by political scientists at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Innsbruck, built for journalists, researchers and anyone curious. The site is a beta: coverage is still growing (TikTok in particular is partial). How the data is collected · Download the data ↗ · Get in touch
Who's behind it
Team
Malo Jan
PhD Candidate, Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po Paris
Malo's research focuses on party competition on climate change and its effects on political attitudes and behavior. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Party Politics, Global Environmental Politics, West European Politics, and Revue française de science politique.
Luis Sattelmayer
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Innsbruck
Luis's research focuses on party competition and political conflict in Western Europe, with a special emphasis on party communication, party positions, and issue salience in shaping voter behavior and party fortunes. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Party Politics, and West European Politics.
Using this data
How to cite
If you use this website or the underlying data in your own work, please cite the two publications it's built on:
Jan, M., & Sattelmayer, L. (2025). PartySOME: A comprehensive dataset on political parties' social media activity. Party Politics.
PartySOME I — BibTeX
@article{jan2025partysome,
title={PartySOME: A comprehensive dataset on political parties' SOcial MEdia activity},
author={Jan, Malo and Sattelmayer, Luis},
journal={Party Politics},
pages={13540688251388763},
year={2025},
publisher={SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England}
}Jan, M., & Sattelmayer, L. (forthcoming). PartySOME II: A dataset on parties' issue agendas on social media. West European Politics.
PartySOME II — BibTeX (forthcoming)
@article{jansattelmayer2026partysome2,
title={PartySOME II: A Dataset on Parties' Issue Agendas on Social Media},
author={Jan, Malo and Sattelmayer, Luis},
journal={West European Politics},
year={forthcoming},
note={Forthcoming}
}Dig deeper
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What's covered
Countries & parties
Every country currently browsable in the live dashboard, the parties tracked within it, and per-party platform coverage and post counts.
Browse countries & parties →Where it comes from
Data collection
Party accounts identified manually, posts collected with platform-specific tools, organic posts only — and why coverage is thinner in the corpus's early years.
How the data is collected →How it's built
Methodology
How raw posts are filtered for policy relevance and classified into 21 CAP issue categories, and the two papers this project is based on.
Read the full methodology →Get the data
Data & code availability
Aggregated monthly party–issue measures, hand-annotated training data, and replication material — every chart can also be downloaded directly as CSV or PNG.
github.com/malojan/partysome ↗Plus: Publications, Resources, and Feedback.