2019 European Parliament election

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2019 European Parliament election
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All 751 seats to the European Parliament
376 seats needed for a majority
Turnout50.66% [2] Increase2.svg 8.01 pp
 
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Leader Manfred Weber Frans Timmermans Margrethe Vestager
Alliance EPP S&D Renew
Leader's seat Germany Netherlands Denmark
Last election221 seats, 23.8%191 seats, 24.4%67 seats, 7.0%
Seats before21618569
Seats won18714798
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 34Decrease2.svg 31Increase2.svg 39
Popular vote41,211,02335,421,08423,788,652
Percentage21.0%18.5%13.0%
SwingDecrease2.svg 2.8%Decrease2.svg 5.9%Increase2.svg 6.0%
 
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Leader Bas Eickhout
Ska Keller 		Marco Zanni Jan Zahradil
Alliance Greens/EFA ID ECR
Leader's seat Netherlands
Germany 		North-West Italy Czech Republic
Last election50 seats, 7.3%New group70 seats, 5.2%
Seats before523677
Seats won677662
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 22Increase2.svg 37Decrease2.svg 15
Popular vote19,886,51320,980,85314,207,477
Percentage11.7%10.8%8.2%
SwingIncrease2.svg 4.4%New groupIncrease2.svg 3.0%
 
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Leader Violeta Tomić
(not elected)
Nico Cué
(not elected)
Alliance GUE/NGL
Leader's seat Slovenia
Belgium (French)
Last election52 seats, 5.6%
Seats before52
Seats won39
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 11
Popular vote10,219,537
Percentage6.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg 0.9%
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Map of Europe showing the European parliamentary group leading in each constituency. In constituencies where some groups have had the same number of seats, the groups with the most seats are displayed with hashing.

   EPP    S&D    RE    G/EFA    ID    ECR    GUE/NGL

Contents

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President of the European Commission before election

Jean-Claude Juncker
EPP

President of the European Commission after election

Ursula von der Leyen
EPP

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 people from 28 member states. In February 2018, the European Parliament had voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019. [3] However, the United Kingdom participated alongside other EU member states after an extension of Article 50 to 31 October 2019; therefore, the allocation of seats between the member states and the total number of seats remained as it had been in 2014. [4] The Ninth European Parliament had its first plenary session on 2 July 2019. [5]

On 26 May 2019, the European People's Party led by Manfred Weber won the most seats in the European Parliament, making Weber the leading candidate to become the next President of the European Commission. [6] [7] Despite this, the European Council decided after the election to nominate Ursula von der Leyen as new Commission President. The centre-left and centre-right parties suffered significant losses, while pro-EU centrist, liberal and environmentalist parties and anti-EU right-wing populist parties made substantial gains. [8] [9]

New law

On 7 June 2018, the Council agreed at ambassador level to change the EU electoral law and to reform old laws from the 1976 Electoral Act. The purpose of the reform is to increase participation in elections, raise understanding of their European character and prevent irregular voting while at the same time respecting the constitutional and electoral traditions of the member states. [10] The reform forbids double voting and voting in third countries, thus improving the visibility of European political parties. [10] To avoid double voting, contact authorities are established to exchange data on voters, a process that has to start at least six weeks before the elections. [10]

The European Parliament gave its consent on 4 July 2018 and the Act was adopted by the Council on 13 July 2018. However, not all member states ratified the Act prior to the 2019 elections and therefore this election took place in line with the previous rules. [11] [12]

Political groups and candidates

The Spitzenkandidat process involves the nomination by European political parties of candidates for the role of Commission President, the party winning the most seats in the European Parliament receiving the first opportunity to attempt to form a majority to back their candidate (akin to how heads of government are elected in national parliamentary democracies). This process was first used in 2014 and was opposed by some in the European Council. The future of the process is uncertain, but the European Parliament has attempted to codify the process and the parties are almost certain to select the candidates again. [13] On 23 January 2018, the Constitutional Affairs Committee adopted a text stating that the Spitzenkandidat process could not be overturned, and that Parliament "will be ready to reject any candidate in the investiture procedure of the Commission President who was not appointed as a Spitzenkandidat in the run-up to the European elections". [14]

In May 2018 a Eurobarometer poll suggested that 49% of the 27,601 individuals from all 28 EU countries surveyed think that the Spitzenkandidat process will help them vote in the next European elections while 70% also think that the process requires a real debate on European issues. [15]

European People's Party

Incumbent Jean-Claude Juncker stated he would not seek a second term as President of the European Commission. [16]

Two candidates sought the nomination of the EPP:

At their 2018 Congress in Helsinki, the EPP elected Manfred Weber as their Spitzenkandidat for President of the European Commission. [19]

Party of European Socialists

Previous candidate Martin Schulz left the European Parliament in 2017 to head the Social Democratic Party of Germany, but he stepped down from the latter position in 2018.

Two candidates were nominated by PES member parties and organisations:

Šefčovič announced his withdrawal in November and supported Frans Timmermans as the Common Candidate. [22]

The party convened an extraordinary Congress in Lisbon to ratify the election of the candidate and to vote upon the manifesto.

European Conservatives and Reformists

Jan Zahradil, an MEP for the Czech Civic Democratic Party, is the Spitzenkandidat of the European Conservatives and Reformists.

European Green Party

As in 2014, the Greens adopted the principle of having two leading candidates for the European Elections 2019. [23] Unlike in 2014, where the candidates were chosen through an open online primary elections, the two leading candidates were elected by the Council of the Party in Berlin in November 2018. [24] Four people, two of them being currently MEPs, have declared their candidacy: [24]

At their 2018 Congress in Berlin, the party elected Ska Keller and Bas Eickhout as their Spitzenkandidaten for the President of the European Commission.

European Free Alliance

Oriol Junqueras, a Catalan historian, academic and former Vice President of Catalonia who, at the time of the election, was imprisoned because of his involvement in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, is the Spitzenkandidat of the European Free Alliance. [25] [26]

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats

Rather than present a single candidate, the ALDE group presented a Team Europe of seven people as the alliance's leading candidates: [27]

Party of the European Left

The designated candidates are Violeta Tomič from Slovenia and Belgian trade-unionist Nico Cué. [31]

Populist and Eurosceptic groups

The Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy was widely expected to disband after the election. One reason was that its biggest share of MEPs came from the United Kingdom, which was long expected to leave the EU before the election. The second was that the second-biggest partner, Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S), felt uneasy about this alliance anyway, having unsuccessfully tried to join the Greens/EFA or ALDE group instead. In February 2019, M5S alongside partners from Croatia, Finland, Greece and Poland presented a new alliance of anti-establishment parties that claim to be neither left nor right. [32]

The Movement is an alliance of populist parties set up by Steve Bannon in 2018 with the purpose of contesting the European elections. Participating parties included, at least temporarily, Lega Nord, People's Party of Belgium and Brothers of Italy and possibly French National Rally. Originally envisioned as an attempt to unite the populist parties in Europe, The Movement has so far been snubbed by the Alternative for Germany, [33] the Freedom Party of Austria [34] and the UK Independence Party. [35] In March 2019, reporters assessed Bannon's project as a failure. [36] [37] Shortly ahead of the election, Marine Le Pen of the French National Rally distanced herself from Bannon, clarifying that he played no role in her party's campaign. [38]

In April 2019, Matteo Salvini of Italy's Lega launched the European Alliance of Peoples and Nations as a new coalition of populist, hard Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties. It has been joined by most of the members of the outgoing Europe of Nations and Freedom group (including Lega, the French National Rally, Freedom Party of Austria and the Dutch Party for Freedom) as well as some former EFDD (Alternative for Germany) and ECR parties (Danish People's Party and Finns Party). It has been predicted to become the fourth largest group in parliament with an estimate of more than 80 MEPs. [39]

New parties

2019 saw the debut of new parties such as Wiosna of Poland, Czech Pirate Party of Czech Republic, USR-PLUS of Romania, Human Shield and Most of Croatia, ĽSNS and Progressive Slovakia of Slovakia. Some of the new parties have already joined European parties, e.g. LMŠ of Slovenia is a member of ALDE.

The biggest new party is La République En Marche! (LREM) of French President Emmanuel Macron that was formed in 2016 and won the French presidential and parliamentary elections of the following year. Initially, it balked at joining any of the existing party families, instead trying to form a new parliamentary group of pro-European centrists who support Macron's plans to reform the European institutions, drawing away members from ALDE, EPP and S&D. [40] [41] Possible partners for such a project were expected to include Spanish Ciudadanos, Progressive Slovakia and the Hungarian Momentum Movement. [40] However, the hypothetical group was considered to have difficulties to find MEPs from at least seven member states as is required to form a new group. [40] In November 2018, LREM decided to cooperate with the liberal ALDE group instead. Nevertheless, Macron stressed that this was merely a loose alliance and his party is not a member of the ALDE Europarty. He bluntly criticised ALDE for accepting donations from the Bayer-Monsanto chemical group while LREM's campaign chief threatened to recall the alliance. [42] In April and May 2019, LREM continued its efforts to build a broader group, including ALDE, but also centrist and centre-left parties outside of ALDE. [43] [44]

The new Brexit Party won 29 seats in the United Kingdom. [45]

The European Spring initiated from the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 ran as a pan-European party alliance with one unified vision for Europe, the European Green New Deal. [46] The most prominent figure is the former Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis, who ran as a candidate in the constituency of Germany, but failed to secure a seat. [47] Despite garnering approximately one and a half million votes, no representatives who ran DiEM25 were elected, due to the votes being dispersed throughout different EU countries. [48]

As a new pan-European party, Volt Europa was founded in different European countries two years before the elections and successfully campaigned in eight EU countries for the elections with one transnational programme. [49] Despite missing its own goal to create a parliamentary group on its own, approximately half a million votes in total were sufficient to send one of the founders, Damian Boeselager, into the European Parliament via a German Volt list. [50] Since June 2019, Volt is part of the group of the Greens/EFA. [51]

Televised debates

European Commission presidency candidates at Eurovision Debate (May 2019). Left to right: Zahradil, Cue, Keller, Vestager, Timmermans, Weber Debate of lead candidates for the European Commission presidency (40894703423).jpg
European Commission presidency candidates at Eurovision Debate (May 2019). Left to right: Zahradil, Cué, Keller, Vestager, Timmermans, Weber
Table of televised debates
DateTime (CEST)InstituteParticipantsLocationLanguageMain presenter(s)
17 April 201921:00France 24 and RFI [52] Timmermans and WeberStrasbourgFrenchCaroline de Camaret (France 24) and Dominique Baillard (RFI)
17 April 201922:00France 24 [53] [54] Timmermans and WeberStrasbourgEnglishCatherine Nicholson (France 24)
29 April 201919:00Politico Europe [55] Eickhout, Timmermans, Tomić, Verhofstadt and ZahradilMaastrichtEnglishRyan Heath (Politico Europe) and Rianne Letschert (Maastricht University)
2 May 201918:00Financial Times [56] Keller, Timmermans, Verhofstadt and WeberFlorenceEnglishMartin Sandbu (Financial Times)
7 May 201920:15ARD [57] Timmermans and WeberCologneGermanEllen Ehni and Andreas Cichowicz (both ARD)
15 May 201921:00EBU [58] Cué, Keller, Timmermans, Vestager, Weber, and ZahradilBrusselsEnglish Émilie Tran Nguyen (France Television), Markus Preiss (ARD Germany), and Annastiina Heikkilä (YLE Finland)
16 May 201920:15ZDF and ORF [59] Timmermans and WeberBerlinGermanPeter Frey (ZDF) and Ingrid Thurnher (ORF)
21 May 201922:00 NOS and NTR [60] Timmermans and WeberHilversumGerman and DutchJeroen Wollaars (NOS)

Results

Groups

Results by political group [61]
Group (2019–24)VotesSeats
Votes %Seats∆ %
EPP European People's Party group 41,211,023 [lower-alpha 1] 20.80
182 / 751
Decrease2.svg −3424.23
S&D Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 35,421,08417.88
154 / 751
Decrease2.svg −3120.51
RE Renew Europe [lower-alpha 2] 23,788,652 [lower-alpha 3] 12.01
108 / 751
Increase2.svg +3914.38
G/EFA Greens–European Free Alliance 19,886,513 [lower-alpha 4] 10.04
74 / 751
Increase2.svg +229.85
ID Identity and Democracy [lower-alpha 5] 20,980,85310.59
73 / 751
Increase2.svg +379.72
ECR European Conservatives and Reformists 14,207,4777.17
62 / 751
Decrease2.svg −158.26
GUE/NGL European United Left–Nordic Green Left 10,219,537 [lower-alpha 6] 5.16
41 / 751
Decrease2.svg −115.46
NI Non-Inscrits 12,923,4176.52
57 / 751
Increase2.svg +377.59
All others19,453,9229.82
0 / 751
N/A0.00
Total198,352,638100.00751Steady2.svg100.00
Vote totals given account only for lists which won seats and joined the corresponding group or sat as non-inscrits.
Votes summary
EPP
 
20.80%
S&D
 
17.88%
RE
 
12.01%
ID
 
10.59%
G/EFA
 
10.04%
ECR
 
7.17%
GUE/NGL
 
5.16%
NI
 
6.52%
Other
 
9.82%

By country

Seats summary
EPP
 
24.23%
S&D
 
20.51%
RE
 
14.38%
G/EFA
 
9.85%
ID
 
9.72%
ECR
 
8.26%
GUE/NGL
 
5.46%
NI
 
7.59%
State Political groups MEPs
EPP
(EPP, ECPM)		 S&D
(PES, EDP)		 RE
(ALDE, EDP)		 G/EFA
(EGP, EFA)		 ID
(IDP)		 ECR
(ECRP, ECPM, EFA)		 GUE/NGL
(PEL)		 NI
Flag of Germany.svg
Germany 		23 (CDU)
6 (CSU)		−5
+1		16 (SPD)−115 (FDP)
2 (FW)		+2
+1		21 (B’90/Grüne)
1 (ÖDP)
1 (Piraten)
1 (Volt Europa)
1 (PARTEI)		+10
=
=
+1
+1		11 (AfD)+41 (Familie)=5 (Linke)
1 (Tierschutz)		−2
=		1 (PARTEI)=96
Flag of France.svg
France 		8 (LR-LC)−125 (PS-PP-ND)−821 (LREM-MoDem-Agir–MR)+2112 (EELV)+622 (RN)−26 (FI)+674
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
United
Kingdom 		10 (LAB)−1016 (LD)
1 (Alliance)		+15
+1		7 (GPEW)
3 (SNP)
1 (PC)		+4
+1
=		4 (CON)−151 (SF)=29 (Brexit Party)
1 (DUP)		+29

=

73
Flag of Italy.svg
Italy 		6 (FI)
1 (SVP)		−7
=		19 (PD)−1228 (Lega)+235 (FdI)+514 (M5S)−373
Flag of Spain.svg
Spain 		12 (PP)−420 (PSOE)+67 (Cs)
1 (CEUS: EAJ/PNV)		+1
=		1 (AR: ERC)
1 (UP: CatComú)		-1
=		3 (VOX)+33+2 (UP: Podemos+IU)
1 (AR: EH Bildu)		−5
=		2 (JuntsxCat)
1 (AR: ERC)		+2
+1		54
Flag of Poland.svg
Poland 		14+3 (KE: KO+PSL)- 65 (KE: SDL)
3 (Wiosna)		=
+3		26 (PiS-SP)+851
Flag of Romania.svg
Romania 		10 (PNL)
2 (UDMR)
2 (PMP)		−1
=
=		8 (PSD)
2 (PRO)		−8
+2		8 (USR-PLUS)+832
Flag of the Netherlands.svg
Netherlands 		4 (CDA)
1 (50+)
1 (CU)		−1
+1
+1		6 (PvdA)+32 (D66)
4 (VVD)		−2
+1		3 (GL)+13 (FvD)
1 (SGP)		+3
=		1 (PvdD)=26
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg
Belgium 		2 (CD&V)
1 (CDH)
1 (CSP)		=
=
=		2 (PS)
1 (SP.A)		−1
=		2 (Open VLD)
2 (MR)		−1
−1		2 (ECOLO)
1 (Groen)		+1
=		3 (VB)+23 (N-VA)−11 (PTB)+121
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
Czech
Republic 		2+1 (TOP 09+STAN)
2 (KDU–ČSL)		−1
−1		6 (ANO)+23 (Piráti)+32 (SPD)+24 (ODS)+21 (KSČM)−221
Flag of Greece.svg
Greece 		8 (ND)+32 (KINAL)=1 (EL) [62] +16 (SYRIZA)=2 (KKE)
2 (XA)		=
−1		21
Flag of Hungary.svg
Hungary 		12+1 (Fidesz+KDNP)+11 (MSZP)
4 (DK)		−1
+2		2 (MoMo)+21 (Jobbik)−221
Flag of Portugal.svg
Portugal 		6 (PSD)
1 (CDS–PP)		=
=		9 (PS)+11 (PAN)+12 (CDU: PCP)
2 (BE)		−1
+1		21
Flag of Sweden.svg
Sweden 		4 (M)
2 (KD)		+1
+1		5 (S)=2 (C)
1 (L)		+1
−1		2 (MP)−23 (SD)+11 (V)=20
Flag of Austria.svg
Austria 		7 (ÖVP)+25 (SPÖ)=1 (NEOS)=2 (Grüne)−13 (FPÖ)−118
Flag of Bulgaria.svg
Bulgaria 		6 (GERB)
1 (DSB)		=
+1		5 (BSP)+13 (DPS)−12 (IMRO)+117
Flag of Finland.svg
Finland 		3 (Kok.)=2 (SDP)=2 (Kesk.)
1 (SFP)		−1
=		2 (VIHR)+12 (PS)=1 (Vas.)=13
Flag of Denmark.svg
Denmark 		1 (C)=3 (S)=3 (V)
2 (B)		+1
+1		2 (SF)+11 (O)−31 (RG)+113
Flag of Slovakia.svg
Slovakia 		2 (PS+SPOLU): (SPOLU)
1 (KDH)
1 (OĽaNO)		+2
−1
=		3 (Smer–SD)−12 (PS+SPOLU): (PS)+22 (SaS)+12 (ĽSNS)+213
Flag of Croatia.svg
Croatia 		4 (HDZ)−13 (SDP)+11 (AMS: IDS)−11 (HKS)=1 (Human Shield)
1 ( Kolakušić )		+1
+1		11
Flag of Ireland.svg
Ireland 		4 (FG)=1 (FF)=2 (GP)+22 (I4C)
1 (SF)
1 ( Flanagan )		+2
−2
=		11
Flag of Lithuania.svg
Lithuania 		3 (TS–LKD)
1 ( Maldeikienė )		+1
+1		2 (LSDP)=1 (DP)
1 (LRLS)		=
−1		2 (LVŽS)+11 (LLRA)=11
Flag of Latvia.svg
Latvia 		2 (JV)−22 (Saskaņa)+11 (AP!)+11 (LKS)=2 (NA)+18
Flag of Slovenia.svg
Slovenia 		2+1 (SDS+SLS)
1 (NSi)		−1
=		2 (SD)+12 (LMS)+28
Flag of Cyprus.svg
Cyprus 		2 (DISY)=1 (EDEK)
1 (DIKO)		=
=		2 (AKEL)=6
Flag of Estonia.svg
Estonia 		2 (SDE)+12 (RE)
1 (KE)		=
=		1 (EKRE)+16
Flag of Luxembourg.svg
Luxembourg 		2 (CSV)−11 (LSAP)=2 (DP)+11 (Gréng)=6
Flag of Malta.svg
Malta 		2 (PN)−14 (PL)+16
TotalMEPs
EPP S&D RE G/EFA ID ECR GUE/NGL NI
182 (24.2%)−39154 (20.5%)−37108 (14.4%)+4174 (9.9%)+2473 (9.7%)+2662 (8.3%)−841 (5.5%)−1157 (7.6%)+5751

Post-Brexit seats

Map of the European Union with redistributed seats: GUE/NGL: 40 seats S&D: 148 seats G/EFA: 67 seats Renew: 97 seats EPP: 187 seats ECR: 62 seats ID: 76 seats Non-Inscrits: 28 seats 2019 European Parliament (Post-Brexit).svg
Map of the European Union with redistributed seats:
  GUE/NGL: 40 seats
  S&D: 148 seats
  G/EFA: 67 seats
  Renew: 97 seats
  EPP: 187 seats
  ECR: 62 seats
  ID: 76 seats
  Non-Inscrits: 28 seats

In June 2018, the European Council decided to reapportion 27 of the 73 seats which would become vacant in the event of the United Kingdom leaving the EU. As the United Kingdom was still a member of the EU at the time of the election, the elections were held with the same allocation of seats as in 2014. When the United Kingdom left the EU, 27 of the seats were reallocated to other EU member states as shown below, resulting in a total of 705 MEPs. [63]

StateSeats beforeSeats afterChange
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1819Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 2121Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 1717Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 1112Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 66Steady2.svg 0
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2121Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1314Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 67Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1314Increase2.svg 1
Flag of France.svg  France 7479Increase2.svg 5
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 9696Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2121Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2121Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 1113Increase2.svg 2
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 7376Increase2.svg 3
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 88Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1111Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 66Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 66Steady2.svg 0
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2629Increase2.svg 3
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 5152Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2121Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 3233Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1314Increase2.svg 1
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 88Steady2.svg 0
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 5459Increase2.svg 5
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2021Increase2.svg 1
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 730Decrease2.svg 73
Total751705Decrease2.svg 46

Changes in group representation

The table below shows the changes in group composition after the United Kingdom left the EU.

Member state Political groups MEPs
EPP S&D RE G/EFA ID ECR GUE/NGL NI
Flag of Austria.svg Austria +1 (Grüne)+1
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia +1 (SDP)+1
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark +1 (V)+1
Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia +1 (PP)+1
Flag of Finland.svg Finland +1 (VIHR)+1
Flag of France.svg France +1 (PS)+1 (LREM)
+1 (PD)		+1 (EELV)+1 (RN)+5
Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland +1 (FG)+1 (FF)+2
Flag of Italy.svg Italy +1 (FI)+1 (LN)+1 (FdI)+3
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands +1 (VVD)+1 (PVV) [lower-alpha 7] +1 (FvD)+3
Flag of Poland.svg Poland +1 (PiS)+1
Flag of Romania.svg Romania +1 (PSD)+1
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia +1 (KDH)+1
Flag of Spain.svg Spain +1 (PP)+1 (PSOE)+1 (Cs)+1 (VOX)+1 (JuntsxCat)+5
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden +1 (MP)+1
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United
Kingdom 		−10 (Lab)−16 (LibDem)
−1 (APNI)		−7 (Green)
−3 (SNP)
−1 (PC)		−4 (Con)−1 (SF)−29 (Brexit Party)
−1 (DUP)		−73
Change+5−6−11−7+30−1−29−46
  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Renew Europe replaced the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE) from the 2014−2019 Parliament.
  3. ↑ 198,255 votes for PS–SPOLU (Slovakia), which comprised parties which joined the RE and EPP groups, have been counted for the RE group.
  4. ↑ 1,252,139 votes for Ahora Repúblicas (Spain), which comprised parties which joined the G/EFA and GUE/NGL groups (plus one non-inscrit), have been counted for the G/EFA group.
  5. ↑ Identity and Democracy largely replaced the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group from the 2014−2019 Parliament.
  6. ↑ 2,258,857 votes for Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa (Spain), which comprised parties which joined the GUE/NGL and G/EFA groups, have been counted for the GUE/NGL group.
  7. ↑ Geert Wilders, leader of the PVV, announced that the party would join the ID group.

Seat projections

There were no pan-European polls for the European elections. However, several organisations calculated the theoretical seat distribution in the European Parliament based on national polls in all member states. The table below displays these different projections. Since the United Kingdom notified its intention to leave the European Union in March 2017, the United Kingdom was expected not to participate in the European elections and was therefore excluded from projections. On 10 April 2019, the European Council extended the Brexit deadline to 31 October 2019, and the UK did participate in the European elections. [64] The UK was included in most projections after that date.

  1. ↑ If the group had been able to be formed

Percent

The following table shows projections with vote share instead of seats.

Aftermath

President of the Commission Approval

The heads of governments, gathered in a European Council on 1–3 July 2019, could not agree on a consensus President of the Commission. The two Spitzenkandidaten were discussed, but neither Manfred Weber (EPP), nor Frans Timmermans (PES), who had the backing of many leaders but not of those from the Visegrád Group, had a majority.

In the final hours of the vote, the name of Ursula von der Leyen was suggested and agreed to by all governments, with Germany's abstention.

The European Parliament voted to approve her nomination on 16 July.

Ursula von der Leyen (EPP, Flag of Germany.svg ) as President of the European Commission
16 July 2019Public accounts of the vote
(individual votes unknown, as the ballot was secret)
Required majority
374 out of 747 Yes check.svg		GUE/NGLS&DG/EFAREEPPECRIDNI
Yes
383 / 747
73 or more108 or less

• Flag of Europe.svg ALDE (108) [186]

182 or less26 or more

• Flag of Poland.svg PiS-SP (26) [185]

14 or more

• Flag of Italy.svg M5S (14) [188]

No
327 / 747
41 or less

• Flag of Europe.svg GUE/NGL [189]

42 or more74 or less9 or more5 or more42 or more29 or more

• Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Brexit (29) [188]

Abstentions
23 / 747
Absentees
14 / 747
Total : 7474115374108182627354

Le Grand Continent published a detailed analysis of the secret ballot. [183] The authors numbered the public pledges of national delegations and individual MEPs as amounting to 410, which is 27 more than what von der Leyen ultimately received. To explain the difference, they suggested three scenarios: one in which the support of delegations from the S&D group (some for, some against, some equivocal) was lower than admitted, another in which MEPs from the populist parties in government (Poland's PiS, Hungary's Fidesz and Italy's M5S) were claiming support only to gain leverage, and a half-way scenario which they see as the likeliest. In two of these three scenarios, the S&D group, which for decades was the pillar of the Grand coalition in Europe, no longer has a majority of MEPs supporting the Commission.

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