2009 European Parliament election in Germany

2009 European Parliament election in Germany

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All 99 German seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Turnout	43.3%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Hans-Gert Pöttering Martin Schulz Rebecca Harms Party CDU/CSU SPD Greens Seats before 49 23 13 Seats won 42 23 14 Seat change 7 0 1 Popular vote 9,968,153 5,472,566 3,194,509 Percentage 37.9% 20.8% 12.1% Swing 6.6% 0.7% 0.2%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Silvana Koch-Mehrin Lothar Bisky Party FDP Left Seats before 7 7 Seats won 12 8 Seat change 5 1 Popular vote 2,888,084 1,969,239 Percentage 11.0% 7.5% Swing 4.9% 1.4%

The German part of the 2009 European Parliament election was held on Sunday, 7 June. A total of 26 parties competed for the 99 seats reserved for Germany in the European Parliament. In the previous election of 2004, the six parties which were represented in the German national parliament (Bundestag) from 2005 to 2013, had entered the European Parliament by overcoming the 5% election threshold. The same parties entered the European Parliament this time. None of the other parties managed to gain more than 1.7%, but together the small parties exceeded 10% for the first time. At 43.3%, the voter turnout was just over the all-time low in the previous European election in Germany (43.0%).^[1]