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PartySOME
A Tracker of Parties' Social Media Activity and the Political Issues they Communicate About
PartySOME tracks how political parties communicate on social media, and what they talk about while doing it. It combines a large, harmonized corpus of official party posts with a classification of those posts into standardized policy issues, built for comparative research on party competition and political communication.
This dashboard is built for both academics and the broader public to explore what parties are talking about on social media, close to real time.
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This is a beta version of the site, and still a work in progress.
The dashboard, this landing page, and the underlying data pipeline are all still being actively built out. Platform coverage isn't complete yet either: data collection for TikTok in particular is still ongoing, so TikTok activity shown here is partial.
More is coming so expect things to keep changing and expanding!
If you have questions, find a bug, or want to collaborate, please get in touch.
Who's behind it
Team
Malo Jan
PhD Candidate, 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.