Party responsiveness to public opinion is a key question in the study of democratic representation. While numerous studies have examined party responsiveness on the broad ideological dimensions, there is less comparative research on when and how parties respond to public opinion on more specific issue dimensions. This represents an important shortcoming in our understanding of party responsiveness in the context of partisan realignment and dealignment in European democracies. We aim to address this research gap by studying party positional responsiveness on eight issue dimensions. We conceptualise party responsiveness as parties adjusting their positions to eliminate previous incongruence between themselves and the central point in the voter preference distribution. Our empirical analysis combines the 2014 and 2019 Chapel Hill Expert Surveys and the 2014 European Election Study data. We find moderate levels of party responsiveness on all issue dimensions. Parties are more responsive to their supporters than to the general electorate. In the subsequent analyses we examine how party issue salience and other issue and party characteristics condition party responsiveness.