2014 European Parliament election in Germany

2014 European Parliament election in Germany

← 2009 25 May 2014 2019 →
All 96 German seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	48.1%[1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader David McAllister Martin Schulz Rebecca Harms Party CDU/CSU SPD Green Alliance EPP PES Green Last election 42 seats, 37.85% 23 seats, 20.78% 14 seats, 12.13% Seats won 34 27 11 Seat change 8 4 3 Percentage 35.3% 27.3% 10.7% Swing 2.55% 6.5% 1.43%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Gabi Zimmer Bernd Lucke Alexander Graf Lambsdorff Party Left AfD FDP Alliance Left ECR ALDE Last election 8 seats, 7.48% Did not contest 12 seats, 10.97% Seats won 7 7 3 Seat change 1 7 9 Percentage 7.4% 7.1% 3.5% Swing 0.08% N/A 7.47%

The 2014 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 25 May 2014. Under the Lisbon Treaty, Germany lost three seats and elected 96 members of the European Parliament, instead of the previous 99.

Electoral threshold[]

The previous electoral threshold of 5% was ruled unconstitutional in 2011, leading the major parties to implement a 3% threshold instead. However the Constitutional Court ruled on 26 February 2014 that this threshold was illegal as well.^[2] Under this circumstances a vote share of 0.6% proved sufficient to win an EP seat (result of Die PARTEI) and seven parties won single seats; the seats were allocated according to the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

Opinion polling compared with actual result[]

Results[]

Summary of the results of Germany's 25 May 2014 election to the European Parliament

← 2009 • 2014 • 2019 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU) + Christian Social Union (CSU)	EPP		10,374,758	35.36		34 / 96	8
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	EPP	David McAllister	8,807,500	30.02	0.7	29 / 96	5
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	PES	Martin Schulz	7,999,955	27.27	6.5	27 / 96	4
	Alliance '90/The Greens (B'90/Grünen)	EGP	Rebecca Harms	3,138,201	10.70	1.4	11 / 96	3
	The Left (Linke)	PEL	Gabi Zimmer	2,167,641	7.39	0.1	7 / 96	1
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	None	Bernd Lucke	2,065,162	7.04	7.0	7 / 96	7
	Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU)	EPP	Markus Ferber	1,567,258	5.34	1.9	5 / 96	3
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	ALDE	Alexander Graf Lambsdorff	986,253	3.36	7.6	3 / 96	9
	Free Voters (Freie Wähler)	EDP*	Ulrike Müller	428,524	1.46	0.2	1 / 96	1
	Pirate Party (Piraten)	None†	Felix Reda	424,510	1.45	0.5	1 / 96	1
	Human Environment Animal Protection (Tierschutzpartei)	None	Stefan Eck	366,303	1.25	0.1	1 / 96	1
	National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)	ENF	Udo Voigt	300,815	1.03	1.0	1 / 96	1
	Family Party of Germany (Familie)	None	Arne Gericke	202,871	0.69	0.3	1 / 96	1
	Ecological Democratic Party (ödp)	None	Klaus Buchner	185,119	0.64	0.1	1 / 96	1
	Die PARTEI (Partei)	None	Martin Sonneborn	184,525	0.63	0.6	1 / 96	1
	Others (parties and candidates that won less than 0.6% of the vote and no seats)			516,063	1.76	—	0 / 96	0
Valid votes				29,340,700	98.34
Blank and invalid votes				496,216	1.66
Totals				29,836,916	100.00	—	96 / 96	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				62,004,092	48.12	4.85
Source: German government Archived 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine *individual candidates

Post-Poll Alliance[]

EPP	S&D	ECR	ALDE	GUE/NGL	G-EFA	EFDD	NI	Total
29 (CDU) 5 (CSU)	27 (SPD)	7 (AfD) 1 (Familie)	3 (FDP) 1 (FW)	7 (Linke) 1 (Tierschutz)	11 (B'90/Grüne) 1 (Piraten) 1 (ÖDP)		1 (NPD) 1 (Partei)	96

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