2019 European Parliament election

2019 European Parliament election

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All 751 seats to the European Parliament
376 seats needed for a majority
Turnout198,352,638 (50.66%[1] Increase 8.01 pp)
 
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Leader Manfred Weber Frans Timmermans Margrethe Vestager
Alliance EPP S&D Renew
Leader's seat Germany Netherlands Not running
Last election 221 seats, 23.8% 191 seats, 24.4% 67 seats, 7.0%
Seats before 216 185 69
Seats won 187 147 108
Seat change Decrease 34 Decrease 31 Increase 39
Popular vote 41,211,023 35,421,084 23,788,652
Percentage 21.0% 18.5% 13.0%
Swing Decrease 2.8% Decrease 5.9% Increase 6.0%

 
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Leader Bas Eickhout
Ska Keller
Marco Zanni Jan Zahradil
Alliance Greens/EFA ID ECR
Leader's seat Netherlands
Germany
North-West Italy Czech Republic
Last election 50 seats, 7.3% New group 70 seats, 5.2%
Seats before 52 36 77
Seats won 74 76 62
Seat change Increase 22 Increase 40 Decrease 15
Popular vote 19,886,513 20,980,853 14,207,477
Percentage 11.7% 10.8% 8.2%
Swing Increase 4.4% New group Increase 3.0%

 
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Leader Violeta Tomić
Nico Cué
Alliance GUE/NGL
Leader's seat Slovenia
Not running
Last election 52 seats, 5.6%
Seats before 52
Seats won 41
Seat change Decrease 11
Popular vote 10,219,537
Percentage 6.5%
Swing Increase 0.9%

Post-election composition of each member state's delegation

President of the European Commission before election

Jean-Claude Juncker
EPP

President of the European Commission after election

Ursula von der Leyen
EPP

The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019. It was the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states. In February 2018, the European Parliament had voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019.[2] However, the United Kingdom participated alongside other EU member states after an extension of Article 50 to 31 October 2019; therefore, the allocation of seats between the member states and the total number of seats remained as it had been in 2014.[3]

On 26 May 2019, the centre-left and centre-right parties suffered significant losses, while pro-EU centrist, liberal and environmentalist parties and anti-EU right-wing populist parties made substantial gains.[4][5] The European People's Party led by Manfred Weber won the most seats in the European Parliament, making Weber the leading candidate to become the next President of the European Commission.[6][7] Despite this, the European Council decided after the election to nominate Ursula von der Leyen as new Commission President.

  1. ^ "Turnout | 2019 European election results | European Parliament". election-results.eu.
  2. ^ "Size of Parliament to shrink after Brexit" (Press release). European Parliament. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Brexit delayed until 31 October - UK and EU agree". BBC News. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. ^ Smith, Alexander (27 May 2019). "European Parliament elections: 5 takeaways from the results". NBC News. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ Mudde, Cas (11 October 2019). "The 2019 EU Elections: Moving the Center". Journal of Democracy. 30 (4): 20–34. doi:10.1353/jod.2019.0066. ISSN 1086-3214.
  6. ^ "EU center-right claims European Commission presidency". 27 May 2019 – via Japan Times Online.
  7. ^ "Center-right candidate for EU Commission chair says ready to..." 28 May 2019 – via www.reuters.com.