Family Party of Germany
Family Party of Germany Familienpartei Deutschlands | |
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Leader | Maria Hartmann[1] |
Founded | 1981 |
Ideology | Conservatism Social conservatism[2] Christian democracy |
Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
European affiliation | European Christian Political Movement |
European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists[3] (until 2021) European People's Party (since 2021) |
Colours | Orange[4] |
Bundestag | 0 / 709
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State Parliaments | 1 / 1,855
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European Parliament | 1 / 96
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http://www.familien-partei.de/ | |
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The Family Party of Germany (German: Familienpartei Deutschlands) is a minor conservative[5] political party in Germany. It has elected members to several local councils in the state of Saarland. In the 2005 federal elections, the Family Party received 0.4% of the popular vote and no seats. The party wants to introduce a right to vote for children carried out by the legal guardians.
In the 2014 European parliament elections, the Family Party received 0.69% of the national vote (202,871 votes in total) and elected one Member of the European Parliament - Arne Gericke,[6] however he later went on to join Freie Wähler in June 2017.[7] In the 2019 European Parliament election, the Family Party slightly increased their vote share, reaching the threshold and electing lead candidate Helmut Geuking as an MEP.
Tables of election results[]
Federal Parliament (Bundestag)[]
Election year | No. of constituency votes |
No. of party list votes |
% of party list votes |
No. of overall seats won |
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1987 | 130 | 0.0 | 0 / 631
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1998 | 8,134 | 24,825 | 0.1 | 0 / 631
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2002 | 15,138 | 30,045 | 0.1 | 0 / 631
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2005 | 76,064 | 191,842 | 0.4 | 0 / 631
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2009 | 17,848 | 120,718 | 0.3 | 0 / 631
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2013 | 4,478 | 7,449 | 0.0 | 0 / 631
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2017 | 506 | - | - | 0 / 709
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European Parliament[]
Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
+/- | # of overall seats won |
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1994 | 2781 | 0.0 | new | 0 / 99
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1999 | 4117 | 0.0 | <0.1 | 0 / 99
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2004 | 268,468 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 / 99
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2009 | 252,121 | 1.0 | <0.1 | 0 / 99
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2014 | 202,803 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1 / 96
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2019 | 273,828 | 0.7 | <0.1 | 1 / 96
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References[]
- ^ Familien-Partei - Deutschlands Bundesverband. "Familien-Partei - Bundesverband :: Über uns". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- ^ William T Daniel (2015). Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-871640-2.
- ^ "Who's going where? Tracking the musical chairs in the European Parliament". Europe Decides. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- ^ "Kreuzchen - Das Landtagswahlkampf-Blog der Frankfurter Rundschau". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- ^ Daniele Caramani (2013). The Europeanization of Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-107-11867-6.
- ^ "Übersicht". Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- ^ Online, FOCUS. "Schwerin: Gericke von der Familienpartei wechselt zu Freien Wählern". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-11.
External links[]
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