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Germany is a European Parliament constituency
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected by the population of the member states of the European Union (EU). The European Electoral Act 2002 allows member states the choice to allocate electoral subdivisions or constituencies (, ...
for elections in the European Union
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are considered the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
Unti ...
covering the member state
A member state is a state that is a member of an international organization or of a federation or confederation.
Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) include some members that are not sovereign sta ...
of Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
. It is currently represented by ninety-six Members of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
, the most of any European Parliament constituency.
Current Members of the European Parliament
Elections
1979
The 1979 European election was the first direct election to the European Parliament to be held and hence the first time West Germany had voted.1984
The 1984 European election was the second election to the European Parliament and the second for West Germany.1989
The 1989 European election was the third election to the European Parliament and the third for West Germany.1994
The 1994 European election was the fourth election to the European Parliament and the fourth for Germany.1999
The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament and the fifth for Germany.2004
The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament and the sixth for Germany. The elections were held on 13 June 2004. The elections saw a heavy defeat for the rulingSocial Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
Active parties
Fo ...
, which polled its lowest share of the vote since World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
. More than half of this loss, however, went to other parties of the left, particularly the Greens. The votes of the opposition conservative parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, also fell, though not as sharply as the SPD's. The liberal Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party is the name of several political parties around the world. It usually designates a party ideologically based on liberalism.
Current parties with that name include:
*Free Democratic Party (Germany), a liberal political party in ...
improved its vote and gained representation.
2009
The 2009 European election was the seventh election to the European Parliament and the seventh for Germany.2014
The2014 European election
The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union, from 22 to 25 May 2014.
It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded cand ...
was the eighth election to the European Parliament and the eighth for Germany.
2019
The2019 European election
The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peopl ...
was the ninth election to the European Parliament and the ninth for Germany.
References
External links
European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
List of MEPs
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