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Political parties on WhatsApp

A record of which political parties run a WhatsApp Channel, how many people follow it, and how that changes over time, read from each channel’s own public page.

445parties registered
86channels tracked
47countries
October 12, 2026last checked

Every ranked party

#PartyPositionFollowers90-day change
1Partido dos TrabalhadoresVerified by WhatsAppSouth America › BrazilCentre left172,841+151,841 (+723.1%, 58d)
2VOXpersonalEurope › SpainFar rightPfE84,713+55,713 (+192.1%, 210d)
3Die LinkeVerified by WhatsAppEurope › GermanyLeftThe Left82,238+25,238 (+44.3%, 150d)
4Movimento 5 StelleVerified by WhatsApppersonalEurope › ItalyCentre leftThe Left77,712+681 (+0.9%, 42d)
5LegaVerified by WhatsApppersonalEurope › ItalyFar rightPfE49,878-354 (-0.7%, 42d)
6Italia VivaVerified by WhatsApppersonalEurope › ItalyCentreRenew34,324-1,676 (-4.7%, 245d)
7Partito DemocraticoVerified by WhatsAppEurope › ItalyCentre leftS&D33,694+165 (+0.5%, 44d)
8SPDVerified by WhatsAppEurope › GermanyCentre leftS&D32,646+1,646 (+5.3%, 151d)
9Bündnis 90/Die GrünenVerified by WhatsAppEurope › GermanyCentre leftGreens/EFA30,045+2,045 (+7.3%, 124d)
10Partido LiberalVerified by WhatsAppSouth America › BrazilFar right23,619+3,926 (+19.9%, 14d)
11MissãoVerified by WhatsAppSouth America › BrazilRight21,189+11,189 (+111.9%, 123d)
12CDUVerified by WhatsAppEurope › GermanyCentre rightEPP21,180+1,180 (+5.9%, 128d)
13Forza ItaliaVerified by WhatsAppEurope › ItalyCentre rightEPP15,222+1,222 (+8.7%, 270d)
14Sozialdemokratische Partei ÖsterreichsVerified by WhatsAppEurope › AustriaCentre leftS&D13,618+1,618 (+13.5%, 103d)
15CHEGApersonalEurope › PortugalFar rightPfE12,591+591 (+4.9%, 267d)
16La France insoumiseVerified by WhatsAppEurope › FranceLeftThe Left12,175+245 (+2.1%, 43d)
17PodemosEurope › SpainLeftThe Left8,386+174 (+2.1%, 44d)
18Parti socialisteVerified by WhatsAppEurope › FranceCentre leftS&D8,346-554 (-6.2%, 243d)
19FDPVerified by WhatsAppEurope › GermanyCentreRenew7,967+467 (+6.2%, 134d)
20Sinn FéinVerified by WhatsAppEurope › United Kingdom › Northern IrelandLeftThe Left7,402+52 (+0.7%, 42d)
21SGPVerified by WhatsAppEurope › NetherlandsRightECR7,158+1,358 (+23.4%, 255d)
22Partido PopularEurope › SpainCentre rightEPP6,752+452 (+7.2%, 177d)
23Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea–Partido Nacionalista VascoVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Spain › Basque CountryCentreRenew5,449-51 (-0.9%, 120d)
24Partido SocialistaEurope › PortugalCentre leftS&D5,402+502 (+10.2%, 245d)
25PSOEEurope › SpainCentre leftS&D5,185+285 (+5.8%, 195d)
26VVDEurope › NetherlandsCentreRenew4,426+26 (+0.6%, 269d)
27Esquerra Republicana de CatalunyaVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Spain › CataloniaCentre leftGreens/EFA4,255-45 (-1.0%, 221d)
28FDP.Die LiberalenVerified by WhatsAppEurope › SwitzerlandCentreRenew4,192-2 (-0.0%, 24d)
29Bündnis 90/Die Grünen BayernVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Germany › BavariaCentre leftGreens/EFA3,897+50 (+1.3%, 95d)
30EH BilduEurope › Spain › Basque CountryLeftThe Left3,578+278 (+8.4%, 129d)
31Mario KunasekVerified by WhatsApppersonalEurope › Austria › StyriaFar rightPfE2,844+544 (+23.7%, 103d)
32CDU NiedersachsenVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Germany › Lower SaxonyCentre rightEPP2,812-88 (-3.0%, 319d)
33CDU (PCP-PEV)Europe › PortugalLeftThe Left2,808+208 (+8.0%, 128d)
34Més - CompromísEurope › Spain › Valencian CommunityCentre leftGreens/EFA2,661+261 (+10.9%, 240d)
35Bloco de EsquerdaEurope › PortugalLeftThe Left2,458-42 (-1.7%, 251d)
36Bloque Nacionalista GalegoEurope › Spain › GaliciaCentre leftGreens/EFA2,403+58 (+2.5%, 45d)
37PLR TicinoVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Switzerland › TicinoCentreRenew1,855-56 (-2.9%, 24d)
38Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Sachsen-AnhaltVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Germany › Saxony-AnhaltCentre leftGreens/EFA1,837+337 (+22.5%, 255d)
39Más MadridEurope › Spain › Community of MadridLeft1,788+788 (+78.8%, 341d)
40Place publiqueEurope › FranceCentre leftS&D1,670+107 (+6.8%, 41d)
41PLR GenèveVerified by WhatsAppEurope › Switzerland › GenevaCentreRenew1,535-30 (-1.9%, 24d)
42ChristenUnieEurope › NetherlandsCentre rightEPP1,526-74 (-4.6%, 255d)
43Junts per CatalunyaEurope › Spain › CataloniaCentreRenew1,415+7 (+0.5%, 44d)
44Die GrünenEurope › AustriaCentre leftGreens/EFA1,394+94 (+7.2%, 103d)
45TOP 09Europe › Czech RepublicCentre rightEPP1,311-45 (-3.3%, 24d)
46AfD MagdeburgEurope › Germany › Saxony-Anhalt › MagdeburgFar rightESN1,284+125 (+10.8%, 44d)
47Barcelona en ComúEurope › Spain › Catalonia › BarcelonaLeftThe Left1,284+39 (+3.1%, 45d)
48Bündnis 90/Die Grünen NRWEurope › Germany › North Rhine-WestphaliaCentre leftGreens/EFA1,191+759 (+175.7%, 261d)
49Karoline EdtstadlerpersonalEurope › Austria › SalzburgCentre rightEPP919-11 (-1.2%, 42d)
50Partido Democrático TrabalhistaSouth America › BrazilCentre left832-19 (-2.2%, 147d)
51União BrasilSouth America › BrazilCentre right684+170 (+33.1%, 246d)
52Partido da Social Democracia BrasileiraSouth America › BrazilCentre right482-3 (-0.6%, 14d)
53Volt BerlinEurope › Germany › BerlinCentre leftGreens/EFA453+19 (+4.4%, 68d)
54Die Linke Sachsen-Anhalt (Landtagsfraktion)Europe › Germany › Saxony-AnhaltLeftThe Left439+34 (+8.4%, 243d)
55PSOE CanariasEurope › Spain › Canary IslandsCentre leftS&D304+3 (+1.0%, 155d)
56déi gréngEurope › LuxembourgCentre leftGreens/EFA287+8 (+2.9%, 24d)
57+EuropaEurope › ItalyCentreRenew235+3 (+1.3%, 244d)
58Vorarlberger VolksparteiEurope › Austria › VorarlbergCentre rightEPP231+47 (+25.5%, 248d)
59CDU-Stadtverband FriesoytheEurope › Germany › Lower Saxony › FriesoytheCentre rightEPP222+38 (+20.7%, 240d)
60Občanská demokratická stranaEurope › Czech RepublicRightECR2180 (0.0%, 24d)
61Lega ToscanaEurope › Italy › TuscanyFar rightPfE176-1 (-0.6%, 42d)
62CSU BürgstadtEurope › Germany › Bavaria › BürgstadtCentre rightEPP133-1 (-0.7%, 44d)
63CDU HamburgEurope › Germany › HamburgCentre rightEPP119-1 (-0.8%, 45d)
64PP Ayuntamiento de CuencaEurope › Spain › Castilla-La Mancha › CuencaCentre rightEPP115-2 (-1.7%, 248d)
65Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Oder-SpreeEurope › Germany › BrandenburgCentre leftGreens/EFA83+6 (+7.8%, 157d)
66CDU RüthenEurope › Germany › North Rhine-Westphalia › RüthenCentre rightEPP77-3 (-3.8%, 267d)
67Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Marzahn-HellersdorfEurope › Germany › BerlinCentre leftGreens/EFA73+25 (+52.1%, 304d)
68PSOE de AlmagroEurope › Spain › Castilla-La Mancha › AlmagroCentre leftS&D700 (0.0%, 44d)
69Istarski demokratski saborEurope › CroatiaCentreRenew59-1 (-1.7%, 24d)
70Ancora ItaliaEurope › Italy—57-6 (-9.5%, 265d)
71PCE ValladolidEurope › Spain › Castile and Leon › ValladolidLeftThe Left56+5 (+9.8%, 42d)
72Südschleswigscher WählerverbandEurope › Germany › Schleswig-HolsteinCentre leftGreens/EFA530 (0.0%, 39d)
73CDU Neu-IsenburgEurope › Germany › Hessen › Neu-IsenburgCentre rightEPP49+2 (+4.3%, 45d)
74Movimento 5 Stelle TrevisoEurope › Italy › Veneto › TrevisoCentre leftThe Left49+5 (+11.4%, 44d)
75Miteinander für MauthausenEurope › Austria › Upper Austria › Mauthausen—48+1 (+2.1%, 42d)
76PCE AlbaceteEurope › Spain › Castilla-La Mancha › AlbaceteLeftThe Left48+2 (+4.3%, 338d)
77Volkspartei WieselburgEurope › Austria › Lower Austria › WieselburgCentre rightEPP440 (0.0%, 42d)
78Izquierda Unida Villa del RíoEurope › Spain › Andalusia › Villa del RíoLeftThe Left41+1 (+2.5%, 42d)
79CDU-Gemeindeverband VallendarEurope › Germany › Rhineland-Palatinate › VallendarCentre rightEPP400 (0.0%, 45d)
80Movimento 5 Stelle ModugnoEurope › Italy › Apulia › Modugno—NI33+13 (+65.0%, 270d)
81SPD-Stadtverband WörthEurope › Germany › Rhineland-Palatinate › Wörth am RheinCentre leftS&D27-1 (-3.6%, 44d)
82FPÖ Bezirk OberpullendorfEurope › Austria › Burgenland › OberpullendorfFar rightPfE160 (0.0%, 42d)
83Izquierda Unida Rincón de la VictoriaEurope › Spain › Andalusia › Rincón de la VictoriaLeftThe Left14+3 (+27.3%, 246d)
84Sozialistische GleichheitsparteiEurope › Germany—11+3 (+37.5%, 37d)
85Volkspartei ReisenbergEurope › Austria › Lower Austria › ReisenbergCentre rightEPP110 (0.0%, 42d)
86Esquerda Unida O GroveEurope › Spain › Galicia › O GroveLeftThe Left20 (0.0%, 42d)

Total across ranked parties: 840,966 followers. Last checked October 12, 2026.

359 registered parties with no WhatsApp channel tracked yet

These parties are in the dataset, but we either found no WhatsApp Channel for them or haven’t read one yet. Know one we’ve missed?

Centre left 401,028 (48%)
Far right 175,121 (21%)
Left 122,717 (15%)
Centre 61,457 (7%)
Centre right 51,929 (6%)
Right 28,565 (3%)

What is in it

One row is one party in one place. It records the party’s name, its website, a contact address where one is published, the WhatsApp Channel it runs, and any group or community it runs instead of or alongside one. Places are stored as ISO country and region codes, so a city adds up into a region, a country and a continent without anyone having to agree on spelling.

Each party also carries the group its MEPs sit in at the European Parliament, and a local branch inherits that from its national party. The left-to-right position shown on these pages is derived from that group rather than assigned by us.

Follower counts live separately, as an append-only log: one row per channel per check, never edited. That log is the point: a single number is a screenshot, while a series shows what a campaign actually did.

How this is measured

A WhatsApp Channel has a public page at whatsapp.com/channel/<id>. That page names the channel and says how many people follow it, which is the only number in this project: there is no API, and no way to see who those followers are. A scheduled job reads each registered channel once a day and appends a row to a CSV: the timestamp, the channel, the count, and the outcome of the check.

Failed checks are written down too. A day where a channel could not be read is recorded as a failure rather than left blank, so a gap in the chart is always explained. No reading is ever stored as zero to stand in for “we could not read it”: a zero and a missing measurement mean very different things once you start drawing growth curves.

What it does not tell you

  • Followers are not voters. A channel can be followed by journalists, opponents and people in other countries.
  • Parties started using channels at different times, so a small number can mean a late start rather than a small reach.
  • A party that runs a second channel (a youth wing, say) is listed as its own entry and ranks on its own. Nothing is summed, so no audience is counted twice.
  • Only Channels publish a follower count. Groups and communities are recorded where a party runs one, but their invite pages do not say how many people are in them.

Cite this dataset

The whole dataset (the party registry, the observed channel profiles and the full follower-reading log) is published as a public repository and archived on Zenodo, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Reuse it for anything, including commercially, as long as you credit it.

WhaTools (2026). Political parties on WhatsApp: an open dataset of parties’ WhatsApp presence across Europe [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22206853

Questions

Where do the follower numbers come from?
Every WhatsApp Channel has a public preview page. Open one in a browser and it shows the channel name, its description and how many people follow it. We read that page once a day for each channel in the registry and write the number down. Nothing is estimated.
How accurate is a follower count?
The counts are exact, not rounded. WhatsApp rounds the figure to two significant digits in English (“7.6K”) but prints the whole number in German and Italian, so we ask for the page in German. On the rare reading where only a rounded figure came back, the table marks it with ≈.
Does a big channel mean a party is winning?
No. It measures one thing: how many people chose to receive that party’s messages on WhatsApp. Parties adopt channels at different times and promote them with wildly different budgets, so treat this as a picture of messaging reach, not of support.
Which parties are included?
Any party whose official channel we can find and verify. The registry is curated by hand and reviewed in public, because “this is the official channel of the CDU in Berlin” is a claim someone has to stand behind. A party with no channel listed either does not run one or we have not found it, tell us if you know of one.
How often are the numbers updated?
Each entry carries its own cadence. Most are read quarterly, which is the right resolution for a long-running series; entries somewhere with an election coming are moved to daily. Because every entry becomes due on its own schedule, the work spreads itself across the quarter rather than arriving as one enormous burst.
Where does “far right” or “centre left” come from?
From the group the party’s MEPs sit in at the European Parliament (EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, ECR, Patriots for Europe, Europe of Sovereign Nations or The Left) and, for a local branch, from the national party it belongs to. It is an affiliation you can check, not our reading of a manifesto. Where we depart from that mapping the entry has to cite a source.
What do the ✓ and “personal” marks mean?
A ✓ next to a party means WhatsApp shows the verification badge on its channel: we read that off the channel’s own page each time we check it, so it can change. A “personal” tag means the linked channel belongs to a candidate rather than the party, which happens when a local list runs no channel of its own; it is flagged so a personal channel is never mistaken for the party’s official one.
Can I reuse the data?
Yes, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, so reuse it with credit. The measurement log is a plain CSV, one row per channel per check, and the whole dataset (the registry, the profiles and the full log) is published as a public repository and archived on Zenodo with a DOI. Every row carries the timestamp and the status of the check, including the failed ones.

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