Electro-optical voltage sensor for measurement of an electrical voltage V, the voltage V being present between two electrodes (3, 4) of the electro-optical voltage sensor and generating an electric field, the electrodes (3, 4) being arranged in a manner spaced apart from one another, and an electro-optically active medium being arranged between the electrodes (3, 4), into which medium light can be radiated, it being possible to influence the state of polarization of said light in the electro-optically active medium by means of the electric field and to detect it after emergence from the electro-optically active medium, it being possible to determine the voltage V from the detected state of polarization, a distance medium being arranged between the two electrodes (3, 4), the electro-optically active medium being arranged with an effective thickness d 1 and the distance medium with an effective thickness d 2 between the two electrodes (3, 4), a stack of N elements of the electro-optically active medium and N+1 elements of the distance medium being arranged between the electrodes (3, 4), N being an integer where N ≥ 1, and an element of the electro-optically active medium in each case being arranged between two adjacent elements of the distance medium, the first and the last element in the stack being in contact with a respective one of the two electrodes (3, 4), the effective thicknesses d 1 and d 2 corresponding to the geometrical total thickness of the individual elements of the relevant medium (1, 2), the electro-optically active medium having a dielectric constant ε 1 and the distance medium having a dielectric constant ε 2 for the voltage V, and the effective thickness d 2 of the distance medium and the effective thickness d 1 of the electro-optically active medium being chosen in such a way that the influences of the temperature dependences of the dielectric constant ε 1 of the electro-optically active medium, of the dielectric constant ε 2 of the distance medium and, - if the distance medium is not electro-optically active; of the critical electro-optical coefficient k 1 of the electro-optically active medium, or - if both the electro-optically active medium and the distance medium are electro-optically active and light is radiated through them: of the critical electro-optical coefficient k 1 of the electro-optically active medium and of the critical electro-optical coefficient k 2 of the distance medium, on the detected state of polarization of the light essentially cancel one another out, the temperature dependence of the detected change in polarization of the light being intended to be zero in accordance with ∂ / ∂ T ⁢ k 1 • E 1 • d 1 + k 2 • E 2 • d 2 = 0 where E 1 is the electric field strength in the electro-optically active medium and E 2 is the electric field strength in the distance medium and T = temperature and ∂/∂ T = temperature derivative; and the distance medium having a vanishing critical electro-optical coefficient k 2 and/or a vanishing temperature dependence ∂ k 2 /∂ T of its critical electro-optical coefficient k 2. - if the distance medium is not electro-optically active; of the critical electro-optical coefficient k 1 of the electro-optically active medium, or - if both the electro-optically active medium and the distance medium are electro-optically active and light is radiated through them: of the critical electro-optical coefficient k 1 of the electro-optically active medium and of the critical electro-optical coefficient k 2 of the distance medium, on the detected state of polarization of the light essentially cancel one another out,