2019_European_Parliament_election_in_Germany Knowpia

2019 European Parliament election in Germany
	All 96 German seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	61.38% ( 13.24 pp)
	Results of the election. The map on the left shows the results by district. The map in the upper right shows results by state.

The 2019 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 26 May 2019, electing the 96 members of the national Germany constituency to the European Parliament. Both the CDU/CSU and SPD suffered major losses, while the Greens became the second largest party in a national-level election for the first time in German history.

Background edit

The 2019 European Parliament election was first national election to be held in Germany since the 2017 federal election, in which Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats suffered major losses, while the right-wing, Eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered parliament in third place. In 2018, the Greens and the AfD made large gains in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, with the Greens moving into second place in each, whilst the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats each suffered 10+ point swings. Federal polling saw the Greens take a consistent lead over the SPD since October.

Electoral threshold edit

Since the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have a formal threshold of the vote share required in order for a party to win an EP seat. This has allowed a number of smaller parties to gain representation, since they only have to reach about 0.5% of the vote share needed to get their first seat with the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

Although the European Council had recommended that countries with greater than 35 MEPs should introduce a threshold between 2–5%, the German government abandoned its plans for a 2% threshold in November 2018.^[1]

Opinion polls edit

Graphical summary edit

Federal level edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Union	SPD	Grüne	Linke	AfD	FDP	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size							Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	28.9	15.8	20.5	5.5	11.0	5.4	12.9	8.4
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	20–23 May 2019	1,779	28	17.5	18.5	6.5	12	5.5	12	9.5
Ipsos	17–23 May 2019	2,072	27	17	18	7	12	6	13	9
Civey	15–22 May 2019	5,053	29.1	15.9	18.1	7.2	12.3	6.3	11.1	11.0
INSA	16–20 May 2019	2,875	28	15.5	18	7	12	8	11.5	10
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	14–16 May 2019	1,313	30	17	19	7	12	5	10	11
Infratest dimap	14–15 May 2019	1,001	28	17	17	7	12	7	12	11
Civey	7–14 May 2019	5,043	30.4	16.9	18.2	7.1	10.7	7.2	9.5	12.2
INSA	10–13 May 2019	2,044	28	15	18	8	12	7.5	11.5	10
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	7–9 May 2019	1,357	32	16	19	6	12	6	9	13
INSA	3–6 May 2019	2,089	28	15	19	8	13	7	10	9
Infratest dimap	29–30 Apr 2019	1,505	29	19	19	7	10	7	9	10
Civey	22–29 Apr 2019	5,013	31.6	16.2	17.3	6.7	11.4	8.3	8.5	14.3
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	9–11 Apr 2019	1,282	32	18	19	6	10	7	8	13
Infratest dimap	1–3 Apr 2019	1,503	30	17	19	7	11	7	9	11
INSA	28 Mar–1 Apr 2019	4,000	29	16	16	8	12	8	11	13
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	25–27 Mar 2019	1,325	33	18	18	6	10	7	8	15
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	12–14 Mar 2019	1,290	35	18	18	6	9	7	7	17
Infratest dimap	11–13 Mar 2019	1,508	32	19	18	7	11	6	7	13
INSA	27 Feb–1 Mar 2019	4,000	29	16	15	9	12	9.5	9.5	13
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	19–21 Feb 2019	1,226	33	18	19	8	10	6	6	14
Infratest dimap	11–13 Feb 2019	1,503	33	18	19	6	10	7	7	14
INSA	25–28 Jan 2019	2,056	30	15	17	8	12	8	10	13
Forsa	9–11 Jan 2019	1,505	35	15	20	6	10	8	6	15
INSA	8–10 Dec 2018	2,047	30	16.5	17.5	9.5	14.5	9	3	12.5
INSA	19–22 Oct 2018	1,260	27	16	20	10	16	8	3	11
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	32.9	20.5	8.9	9.2	12.6	10.7	5.0	12.4
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	35.4	27.3	10.7	7.4	7.1	3.4	8.9	8.1

By state edit

Baden-Württemberg edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	CDU	SPD	Grüne	AfD	FDP	Linke	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size							Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	30.8	13.3	23.3	10.0	6.8	3.1	12.7	7.5
Infratest dimap	9–14 May 2019	1,003	31	15	23	10	7	3	11	8
INSA	10–13 May 2019	505	28	12	20	12	9	5	14	8
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	34.4	16.4	13.5	12.2	12.7	6.4	4.5	18.0
2016 state election	13 Mar 2016	–	27.0	12.7	30.3	15.1	8.3	2.9	3.7	3.3
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	39.3	23.0	13.2	7.9	4.1	3.6	8.9	16.3

Bavaria edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	CSU	SPD	Grüne	AfD	FW	FDP	Linke	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size								Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	40.7	9.3	19.1	8.5	5.3	3.4	2.4	11.3	21.6
GMS	16–22 May 2019	1,003	39	11	19	11	4	5	3	8	20
GMS	2–8 May 2019	1,005	40	12	18	10	5	6	3	6	22
Infratest dimap	2–6 May 2019	1,000	39	11	18	9	4	4	3	12	21
GMS	28 Mar–3 Apr 2019	1,000	39	11	18	13	5	6	3	5	21
Infratest dimap	14–18 Mar 2019	1,001	41	12	19	10	5	5	3	5	22
GMS	21–27 Feb 2019	1,006	36	11	17	14	5	7	4	6	19
GMS	27 Dec–2 Jan 2019	1,003	36	10	18	13	5	8	4	6	18
2018 state election	14 Oct 2018	–	37.2	9.7	17.6	10.2	11.6	5.1	3.2	5.4	19.6
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	38.8	15.3	9.8	12.4	2.7	10.2	6.1	4.8	23.5
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	40.5	20.1	12.1	8.1	4.3	3.1	2.9	9.0	20.4

Berlin edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	SPD	CDU	Grüne	Linke	AfD	FDP	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size							Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	14.0	15.2	27.8	11.9	9.9	4.7	16.5	12.6
Infratest dimap	30 Apr–4 May 2019	1,000	13	18	23	16	10	5	15	5
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	17.9	22.7	12.6	18.8	12.0	8.9	7.1	3.9
2016 state election	18 Sep 2016	–	21.6	17.6	15.2	15.6	14.2	6.7	9.2	3.9
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	24.0	20.0	19.1	16.2	7.9	2.8	10.0	4.0

Hesse edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	CDU	SPD	Grüne	AfD	Linke	FDP	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size							Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	25.8	18.4	23.4	9.9	4.4	6.4	11.7	2.4
Infratest dimap	16–24 Apr 2019	1,001	27	19	21	12	4	8	9	6
2018 state election	28 Oct 2018	–	27.0	19.8	19.8	13.1	6.3	7.5	6.5	7.2
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	30.9	23.5	9.7	11.9	8.1	11.5	4.4	7.3
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	30.6	30.3	12.9	9.1	5.6	4.1	7.3	0.3

Rhineland-Palatinate edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	CDU	SPD	Grüne	AfD	FDP	Linke	FW	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size								Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	31.3	21.3	16.7	9.8	5.8	3.1	2.9	9.1	10.0
Infratest dimap	8–13 May 2019	1,000	31	21	18	9	8	4	–	9	10
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	35.9	24.1	7.6	11.2	10.4	6.8	1.4	2.6	11.7
2016 state election	13 Mar 2016	–	31.8	36.2	5.3	12.6	6.2	2.8	2.2	2.8	4.4
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	38.4	30.7	8.1	6.7	3.7	3.7	2.0	6.7	7.7

Saarland edit

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	CDU	SPD	AfD	Linke	Grüne	FDP	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size							Others	Lead
2019 European election	26 May 2019	–	32.5	23.1	9.6	6.0	13.2	3.7	11.9	9.4
Infratest dimap	29 Apr–6 May 2019	1,000	34	23	7	9	14	4	9	11
2017 federal election	24 Sep 2017	–	32.4	27.1	10.1	12.9	6.0	7.6	3.9	5.2
2017 state election	26 Mar 2017	–	40.7	29.6	6.2	12.8	4.0	3.3	3.4	11.1
2014 European election	25 May 2014	–	34.9	34.4	6.8	6.6	6.0	2.2	9.0	0.5

Results edit



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Christian Democratic Union	8,438,975	22.57	23	–6
	Alliance 90/The Greens	7,677,071	20.53	21	+10
	Social Democratic Party	5,916,882	15.82	16	–11
	Alternative for Germany	4,104,453	10.98	11	+4
	Christian Social Union	2,355,067	6.30	6	+1
	The Left	2,056,049	5.50	5	–2
	Free Democratic Party	2,028,594	5.42	5	+2
	Die PARTEI	899,079	2.40	2	+1
	Free Voters	806,703	2.16	2	+1
	Human Environment Animal Protection	542,226	1.45	1	0
	Ecological Democratic Party	369,869	0.99	1	0
	Family Party	273,828	0.73	1	0
	Volt Germany	249,098	0.67	1	New
	Pirate Party Germany	243,302	0.65	1	0
	Democracy in Europe Movement 2025	130,229	0.35	0	New
	National Democratic Party	101,011	0.27	0	–1
	Action Party for Animal Protection	99,780	0.27	0	New
	Party for the Animals	85,809	0.23	0	New
	Bavaria Party	81,880	0.22	0	0
	Grey Panthers	76,255	0.20	0	New
	The Greys	71,295	0.19	0	New
	Partei für Gesundheitsforschung	70,869	0.19	0	New
	Alliance for Innovation and Justice	68,647	0.18	0	New
	Alliance for Human Rights, Animal and Nature Protection	68,572	0.18	0	New
	Alliance C – Christians for Germany	66,327	0.18	0	New
	Party of Humanists	62,604	0.17	0	New
	From now on... Democracy by Referendum	58,400	0.16	0	0
	Feminist Party	55,293	0.15	0	New
	Liberal Conservative Reformers	43,961	0.12	0	New
	Basic Income Alliance	40,818	0.11	0	New
	Ecological Left	35,796	0.10	0	New
	Human World	34,470	0.09	0	New
	European Party Love	33,160	0.09	0	New
	The Violets	27,784	0.07	0	New
	Democracy Direct	25,449	0.07	0	New
	The Right	24,598	0.07	0	New
	German Communist Party	20,396	0.05	0	0
	Marxist–Leninist Party	18,342	0.05	0	0
	New Liberals	15,909	0.04	0	New
	Third Way	12,756	0.03	0	New
	Socialist Equality Party	5,283	0.01	0	0
Total		37,396,889	100.00	96	0

Valid votes		37,396,889	98.91
Invalid/blank votes		410,857	1.09
Total votes		37,807,746	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		61,600,263	61.38
Source: Federal Returning Officer

Results by state edit

Results for each party by state.^[2]

State	Union	Grüne	SPD	AfD	Linke	FDP	Others
State							Others
Baden-Württemberg	30.8	23.3	13.3	10.0	3.1	6.8	12.7
Bavaria	40.7	19.1	9.3	8.5	2.4	3.4	16.6
Berlin	15.2	27.8	14.0	9.9	11.9	4.7	16.5
Brandenburg	18.0	12.3	17.2	19.9	12.3	4.4	15.9
Bremen	21.8	22.7	24.5	7.7	7.9	4.7	10.7
Hamburg	17.7	31.2	19.8	6.5	7.0	5.6	12.2
Hesse	25.8	23.4	18.4	9.9	4.4	6.4	11.7
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	24.5	10.8	15.6	17.7	13.9	3.9	13.6
Lower Saxony	29.9	22.6	20.9	7.9	3.8	5.0	9.9
North Rhine-Westphalia	27.9	23.2	19.2	8.5	4.2	6.7	10.3
Rhineland-Palatinate	31.3	16.7	21.3	9.8	3.1	5.8	12.0
Saarland	32.5	13.2	23.1	9.6	6.0	3.7	11.9
Saxony	23.0	10.3	8.6	25.3	11.7	4.7	16.4
Saxony-Anhalt	23.2	9.2	12.5	20.4	14.4	4.9	15.4
Schleswig-Holstein	26.2	29.1	17.1	7.4	3.7	5.9	10.6
Thuringia	24.7	8.6	11.0	22.5	13.8	4.4	15.0

Maps edit

The second party in each federal State.

Post-poll alliance edit


EPP	S&D	RE	G-EFA	ID	ECR	GUE/NGL	NI	Total
23 (CDU) 6 (CSU)	16 (SPD)	5 (FDP) 2 (FW)	21 (B'90/Grüne) 2 (Partei) 1 (ÖDP) 1 (Volt) 1 (Piraten)	11 (AfD)	1 (Familie)	5 (Linke) 1 (Tierschutz)		96

Elected MEPs edit

Notes edit

References edit

^ Christian Kerl. "Europawahl 2019: Große Koalition begräbt Pläne für Sperrklausel". Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Officer, The Federal Returning. "European Parliament election 2019 - The Federal Returning Officer". www.bundeswahlleiter.de.