1979 European Parliament election

1979 European Parliament election

7–10 June 1979 1984 →

All 410 seats to the European Parliament
206 seats needed for a majority
Turnout114,340,366 / 184,414,900 (62.0%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ernest Glinne [fr] Egon Klepsch James Scott-Hopkins
Party SOC EPP ED
Leader's seat Belgium (French) Germany Hereford and Worcester
Seats won
Popular vote 29,530,418 31,355,631 6,878,970
Percentage 26.62% 28.26% 6.20%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Giorgio Amendola Martin Bangemann Christian de La Malène
Party COM ELDR EPD
Leader's seat Central Italy Germany France
Seats won
Popular vote 14,908,281 11,520,616 4,114,969
Percentage 13.44% 10.38% 3.71%

Post-election composition of each member state's delegation

President of the European Parliament

Simone Veil
ELDR

The 1979 European Parliament election was a series of parliamentary elections held across all 9 (at the time) European Community member states. They were the first European elections to be held, allowing citizens to elect 410 MEPs to the European Parliament, and also the first international election in history.

Seats in the Parliament had been allocated to the states according to population, and in some cases were divided into constituencies, but members sat according to political groups.