1994 European Parliament election in Germany

1994 European Parliament election in Germany ^[1]

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All 99 German seats in the European Parliament
Turnout	60.0%
First party Second party Third party   Party CDU/CSU SPD Greens Alliance EPP PES G Seats before 32 31 8 Seats won 47 40 12 Seat change 15 9 4 Popular vote 13,739,447 11,389,697 3,563,268 Percentage 38.8% 32,2% 10.1% Swing 1.1% 5.1% 1.7%

An election of the delegation from Germany to the European Parliament (EP) was held in June 1994.

Due to the accession of the former East German states in 1990, these were the first EU elections in Germany to have East Germans voting. Additionally, the ratification of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty meant that for the first time, European Union citizens resident in Germany could vote on the German members of the European Parliament. ^[2]

The EP election was part of a "super election year" in Germany, which also saw the 1994 German federal election in October, alongside parliamentary elections in eight of sixteen German states. ^[3] Treating the EP election as a second-order election, ^[4] some commentators saw the good result for the reigning Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as a positive indicator of their chances in the subsequent federal elections (which the CDU did indeed win). ^[3] However, researchers later cast doubt on the notion that the 1994 EP election was a useful "test case" for subsequent national voting patterns. ^[5]

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	PES		Social Democratic Party	11,389,697	32.16	40	+9
	EPP		Christian Democratic Union	11,346,073	32.04	39	+14
	G		Alliance 90/The Greens	3,563,268	10.06	12	+5
	EPP		Christian Social Union	2,393,374	6.76	8	+1
	EUL		Party of Democratic Socialism	1,670,316	4.72	0	New
	ELDR		Free Democratic Party	1,442,857	4.07	0	–4
	NI		The Republicans	1,387,070	3.92	0	–6
	NI		League of Free Citizens	385,676	1.09	0	New
	NI		The Grays – Gray Panthers	275,866	0.78	0	New
	NI		Ecological Democratic Party	273,776	0.77	0	0
	NI		Car-drivers' and Citizens' Interests Party	231,265	0.65	0	New
	NI		Statt Party	168,738	0.48	0	New
	NI		Party of the Willing to Work and Socially Vulnerable	127,104	0.36	0	New
	NI		Bavaria Party	110,778	0.31	0	0
	NI		New Forum	107,615	0.30	0	New
	NI		Party of Bible-abiding Christians	93,210	0.26	0	New
	NI		Natural Law Party	92,031	0.26	0	New
	NI		German Social Union	80,618	0.23	0	New
	NI		National Democratic Party	77,227	0.22	0	0
	NI		Christian Centre	66,766	0.19	0	0
	NI		Christian League	40,115	0.11	0	0
	NI		Die Unregierbaren – Autonome Liste	37,672	0.11	0	New
	NI		Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität	23,851	0.07	0	New
	NI		Platform Europe for Workers and Democracy	12,992	0.04	0	0
	NI		Federation of Socialist Workers	10,678	0.03	0	0
	NI		Family Party of Germany	2,781	0.01	0	New
Total				35,411,414	100.00	99	+18
Valid votes				35,411,414	97.56
Invalid/blank votes				884,115	2.44
Total votes				36,295,529	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				60,473,927	60.02
Source: Federal Statistics Office

References

1. "Wahl zum 4. Europäischen Parlament am 12. Juni 1994" (in German). Bundeswahlleiter. Archived from the original on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2012-05-05.
2. "Ausländer können an deutscher Europawahl teilnehmen: Premiere für EU-Bürger". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 1994-03-15. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
3. "Europawahlen – Historisches Lexikon Bayerns". www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
4. Hix, Simon; Marsh, Michael (2011-03-01). "Second-order effects plus pan-European political swings: An analysis of European Parliament elections across time". Electoral Studies. Special Symposium: Electoral Democracy in the European Union. 30 (1): 4–15. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.017. ISSN   0261-3794.
5. Niedermayer, Oskar (1995). "Die Europawahl in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Kontext des Superwahljahres 1994". Integration. 18 (1): 22–30. ISSN   0720-5120.