Content In the view of the 2014 European elections, two complementary analyses were dedicated to the electoral behaviour in the 2009 European elections. Firstly, a desk research on the electoral behaviour in 2009. It aims at better understanding the results of the post-electoral survey of the European Parliament, of June 2009 (face-to-face with 26 830 European citizens), in which four profiles of voters and abstainers were identified. Secondly, a qualitative study based on focus groups (3 focus groups per Member States, of a dozen participants each) that were conducted across the 27 Member States in March 2012. These were more particularly dedicated to the reasons of two categories of abstainers in 2009: the "impulsive" and "unspecified" ones. Consequently, we draw the reader's attention on the fact that these two analyses are based on two different methodological approaches and that they are separated by a three-year time. Context This is a dataset from European Parliament hosted by the EU Open Data Portal. The Open Data Portal is found [here](http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home) and they update their information according the amount of data that is brought in. Explore European Parliament data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the European Parliament [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/eu-parliament)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using the EU ODP [API](http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/developerscorner) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the following license: [Legal Notice](http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm) [Cover photo](https://unsplash.com/photos/v0OWc_skg0g) by [Parker Johnson](https://unsplash.com/@pkrippermachine) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) _Unsplash Images are distributed under a unique [Unsplash License](https://unsplash.com/license)._