2024 European Parliament election in Germany

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2024 European Parliament election in Germany
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All 96 German seats to the European Parliament
Turnout64.78% (Increase2.svg 3.4 pp)
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
CDU/CSU Manfred Weber 30.02290
AfD Maximilian Krah 15.8915+4
SPD Katarina Barley 13.9414−2
Greens Terry Reintke 11.9012−9
BSW Fabio De Masi 6.176New
FDP M.-A. Strack-Zimmermann 5.1850
Left M. Schirdewan & C. Rackete 2.743−2
FW Christine Singer 2.673+1
Volt D. Boeselager & N. Riehl 2.573+2
Die PARTEI Martin Sonneborn 1.9520
Tierschutzpartei Sebastian Everding 1.4310
ÖDP Manuela Ripa 0.6510
Familie Helmut Geuking 0.6110
PdF Lukas Sieper 0.571New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
2024 European Parliament election in Germany - Results.svg
Results of the election. The map on the right shows the results by district. The map in the lower left shows results by state.

The 2024 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 9 June 2024. [1] It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. [2] [3]

Contents

The election saw the CDU/CSU slightly increase its vote share, while all three parties comprising the government — the SPD, the Greens and the FDP — earned fewer votes than five years ago, with the Greens in particular suffering especially high losses. [4] Conversely, the far-right AfD surged in both votes and seats, finishing second. [5]

There was a stark regional disparity: The AfD won at least a plurality in all but six districts in former East Germany: Potsdam and Potsdam-Mittelmark in Brandenburg, the cities of Erfurt, Jena and Weimar as well as traditionally Catholic Eichsfeld in Thuringia. The newly formed left-populist party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance also attracted a significant number of voters, with its support also being highest in the former East German states.

Background

The 2024 European Parliament election was the first national election to be held in Germany since the 2021 federal election, in which former Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats CDU-CSU lost to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Olaf Scholz [6] who formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Alliance 90/The Greens. The coalition lowered the voting age for European Parliamentary Elections from 18 to 16 prior to this election. [7]

Electoral threshold

Since the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have an overriding threshold of the vote share required in order for a party to win an EP seat — unlike the 5% threshold in national elections. This has allowed a number of smaller parties to gain representation, since they only have to reach about 0.5% of the vote share needed to get their first seat under the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

Germany is entitled to elect 96 Members of the European Parliament. [8]

Although the European Council had recommended that countries with more than 35 MEPs should introduce a threshold between 2% and 5%, the German government abandoned its plans for a 2% threshold in November 2018. [9] In 2022, the government decided to introduce a 2% threshold, but this will not yet apply in the 2024 election. [10] In 2019, the de facto threshold for a seat was around 0.7% of the vote.

Outgoing delegation

The table shows the detailed composition of the German seats at the European Parliament as of 12 March 2024.

EP GroupSeatsPartySeatsMEPs
European People's Party
30 / 96
 Christian Democratic Union 23
Christian Social Union 6
Family Party 1
Greens–European Free Alliance
25 / 96
 Alliance 90/The Greens 21
Ecological Democratic Party 1
Volt 1
Pirate Party 1
Independents 1
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
16 / 96
 Social Democratic Party 16
Renew Europe
7 / 96
 Free Democratic Party 5
Free Voters 2
The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
5 / 96
 The Left 5
European Conservatives and Reformists
1 / 96
 Alliance Germany 1
Non-Inscrits
12 / 96
 Alternative for Germany 9
Die PARTEI 1
Independents 2
Total96
Source: European Parliament

Parties campaigning for election

Ballot paper for the European Election in Hesse Stimmzettel fur die Wahl der Abgeordneten des Europaischen Parlaments am 9. Juni 2024 im Land Hessen.jpg
Ballot paper for the European Election in Hesse

Political parties and other political associations may submit lists for the European elections. The lists must be submitted by the 83rd day before the election. Nationwide lists must be signed by 4,000 eligible voters, state lists by 1 per thousand, but not more than 2,000 eligible voters of the respective state (section 9 (5) EuWG). Parties that have been represented in the Bundestag, a regional parliament or the European Parliament with at least five members since its last election are exempt from the obligation to submit supporting signatures. These are (sorted by election results 2019):

PartyEuropean PartyGroup2019 resultTop candidate
CDU/CSU EPP EPP 28.9% Manfred Weber
Greens EGP Greens/EFA 20.5% Terry Reintke, Sergey Lagodinsky
SPD PES S&D 15.8% Katarina Barley
AfD ID ID 11.0% Maximilian Krah
Left PEL GUE/NGL 5.5% Martin Schirdewan, Carola Rackete
FDP ALDE Renew 5.4% Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
FW [a] EDP Renew 2.2% Christine Singer
Alliance Germany [b] – ECR – Lars Patrick Berg

The following other parties are currently represented in the European Parliament with one MEP each:

PartyEuropean PartyGroup2019 resultTop candidate
PARTEI – Non-inscrits 2.4%Martin Sonneborn, Sibylle Berg
ÖDP – Greens/EFA 1.0% Manuela Ripa
Family Party ECPM EPP 0.7% Helmut Geuking
Volt Volt Greens/EFA 0.7% Damian Boeselager, Nela Riehl [11]
Pirates PPEU Greens/EFA 0.7% Anja Hirschel [12]

The federal lists of the following other parties and political associations were accepted: [13]

PartyEuropean Party/Organization2019 resultTop candidateNote
Human Environment Animal Protection Party Animal Politics EU 1.45%Sebastian Everding [14]
MERA25 [15] DiEM25 0.35%Karin De Rigo, Johannes Fehr2019 as DiEM25
The Homeland APF 0.27% Udo Voigt [16] formerly the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)
Action Party for Animal Welfare –0.27%Cornelia Keisel
Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research –0.19%Felix Werthformerly Party for Health Research
Alliance for Innovation and Justice FPP 0.18%Haluk Yildiz
Alliance C – Christians for Germany ECPM 0.18%Karin Heepen
Party of Humanists –0.17%Sascha Boelcke [17]
Human World –0.09%Dominik Laur [18]
German Communist Party –0.05% Patrik Köbele [19]
Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany [20] ICOR 0.05%Monika Gärtner-Engel
Socialist Equality Party ICFI 0.01%Christoph Vandreier [21]
Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance –did not exist Fabio De Masi [22]
Citizens for Justice Action –did not existLoreen Bermuske [23]
Climate List Germany –did not existVerena Hofmann [24]
Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening [25] UID did not existFatih Zingal
Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany –did not existEllèn Hölzer [26]
Last Generation –did not existLina Johnsen [27]
Party of Reason EPIL did not runDirk Hesse [28]
Party of Progress –did not existLukas Sieper[ citation needed ]
V-Partei3 –did not runSimon Klopstock [29]

Controversies

Attacks on election campaigners

In the last week of April 2024, campaign workers from the Greens, Volt and Left Party were attacked and in some cases injured while putting up posters. [30]

On 3 May 2024, Matthias Ecke (SPD) was attacked while putting up posters for the 2024 European elections in Dresden. He suffered a fracture to his eye socket and had to undergo surgery. [31] State security took over the investigation, as it was assumed that the attack was politically motivated. [32] [33] Shortly before this, a campaign worker for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen had already been attacked at the same location while putting up posters. [33] On 5 May, a 17-year-old turned himself in and admitted to the attack on Ecke. [31] The three other suspects were then also identified. [34] After the incident in Dresden, the alliances "Zusammen gegen Rechts" and "Wir sind die Brandmauer Dresden" called for demonstrations in Dresden and Berlin on 5 May 2024. [35] In Dresden, 3,000 participants gathered to show solidarity after the attack; the demonstration was held under the slogan "Violence has no place in our democracy". [36]

On 4 May 2024, Holger Kühnlenz, an AfD member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, was pelted with eggs in Nordhorn and punched in the face. [37] [38] In addition, an AfD election campaign stand in Dresden was damaged. [39]

On 5 June 2024, Heinrich Koch, an AfD local council candidate was stabbed in Mannheim when "confronting poster vandals." [40] Another knife-related attack took place in Mannheim a few days earlier.

SS AfD Comments

In a May 2024 interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica AfD Maximilian Krah argued that not all members of the Waffen-SS should be judged as criminals, citing the example of Günter Grass, a former Nobel Prize winner for literature and member of the Waffen-SS, and added “I would never say that anyone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal. Among the 900,000 SS, there were also many peasants: there was certainly a high percentage of criminals, but not only that”. [41] [42] The interview was said to have caused a further decline in already strained relations between the AfD and the French National Rally who both sat

within the Identity and Democracy group. In response to Krah's statements and allegations of Chinese influence on the AfD, members of the National Rally followed by Italy's Lega and the Danish People's Party announced they would part ways with the AfD and cease formal collaboration with the party after the 2024 European Parliament election. [43]  [44]

Opinion polling

Federal level

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size		 Union
EPP 		Grüne
G/EFA 		SPD
S&D 		AfD
NI 		Linke
Left 		FDP
Renew 		PARTEI
NI 		FW
Renew 		Tiersch.
Left 		ÖDP
G/EFA 		FAM
EPP 		Volt
G/EFA 		PIRAT
G/EFA 		BSW
NI 		OthersLead
Wahlkreisprognose 6–7 Jun 20241,0003013.512.515.52.54.5—2.5—————7.511.514.5
Wahlkreisprognose 4–6 Jun 20241,3003114.514.5142.54—2—————6.51116.5
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 5–6 Jun 20241,2233014141434—————3—71316
Ipsos 29 May–5 Jun 20242,0003015151435—3—————7815
Wahlkreisprognose 27 May – 1 Jun 20242,00030.51513.515341.52.51.5————67.515.5
INSA 30–31 May 20241,0012913141634—3—————71113
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 27–29 May 20241,1973015141444———————61315
Infratest dimap 27–29 May 20241,5152914151434—3—————61214
INSA 23–24 May 20241,0023013141734—3—————7913
Wahlkreisprognose 13–21 May 20242,600311512.51633.51.52.52————6.56.515
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 14–16 May 20241,2473115141534———————51316
INSA 10–13 May 20242,100291315.51744—32————75.512
YouGov 3–8 May 20241,2472915162044———————669
Infratest dimap 29–30 Apr 20241,32330151415—4———————71515
INSA 25–26 Apr 20241,2022913161744—3—————7712
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 23–25 Apr 20241,2283017151533———————41313
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 9–11 Apr 20241,2543015161633———————51214
INSA 5–8 Apr 20242,10028.511.516.51945—32————649.5
Ipsos 23 Feb–02 Mar 20242,6132916171644———————7412
Forsa 12–13 Mar 20241,0083414161523—3—————4918
INSA 8–11 Mar 20242,10028.51116204.5612.52—0.50.50.55.51.58.5
Ipsos 23 Feb–5 Mar 20242,6132916171644—3—————74 [c] 12
Wahlkreisprognose 24–29 Feb 20241,90031.5161216231.53.52.5————7.54.515.5
Stack Data Strategy 17–22 Feb 202498025.59.816.515.12.76.03.24.13.1——1.31.29.33.49.0
INSA 8–12 Feb 20242,1012710.516224.5313.53—1115.51.55
Portland 24–31 Jan 2024555291316173513300116212
Wahlkreisprognose 11–18 Jan 20241,440281392334.51.551.5————74.55
Wahlkreisprognose 1–7 Dec 20231,44031121025331.52.52————736
INSA 31 Jul 20231,0012615192357————————63
Wahlkreisprognose 7–14 Jul 20231,0402313.515222.53.5231.5————8.55.51
Wahlkreisprognose 15–16 Dec 20221,10022212118.53.53.523.52.5—————2.51
Wahlkreisprognose 24–26 Feb 20221,7222219.522.512.537.52.532—————5.50.5
2021 federal election 26 Sep 2021–24.214.725.710.44.911.41.02.41.50.2—0.40.4—2.91.6
2019 European election 26 May 2019–28.920.515.811.05.55.42.42.21.41.00.70.70.7—3.88.4

Regional polls

Bavaria

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size		 CSU
EPP 		Grüne
G/EFA 		SPD
S&D 		AfD
ID 		FW
Renew 		FDP
Renew 		Linke
Left 		BSW
NI 		OthersLead
GMS 31 Jan – 5 Feb 20241,018431181610214527
Infratest dimap 11–15 Jan 20241,16143138139––3930
GMS 27 Dec – 2 Jan 20241,00242137171031–725
2023 state election 8 Oct 2023–37.014.48.414.615.83.01.5–5.321.2
2021 federal election 26 Sep 2021–31.714.118.09.07.510.52.8–6.413.7
2019 European election 26 May 2019–40.719.19.38.55.33.42.4–11.321.6

Eastern Germany

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size		 CDU
EPP 		AfD
ID 		Linke
Left 		SPD
S&D 		Grüne
G/EFA 		FDP
Renew 		BSW
NI 		OthersLead
INSA [d] 8–12 Feb 2024–17327129291215
2021 federal election 26 Sep 2021–16.820.510.424.19.29.5–9.53.6
2019 European election 26 May 2019–21.521.113.412.211.64.4–15.80.4

Western Germany

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size		 Union
EPP 		Grüne
G/EFA 		SPD
S&D 		AfD
ID 		FDP
Renew 		Linke
Left 		BSW
NI 		OthersLead
INSA 8–12 Feb 2024–29111720345119
2021 federal election 26 Sep 2021–25.615.926.18.211.93.7–8.60.5
2019 European election 26 May 2019–30.522.516.68.65.63.8–11.88.0

Results

Results of the election, showing vote strength by municipality. Results of the 2024 European Parliament Election in Germany by Municipality.svg
Results of the election, showing vote strength by municipality.

The larger map denotes the results by districts and cities, while the smaller shows results in 16 states, including three city-states.

The Union's results by state 2024-Germany-European-Parliament-Union-gradient.svg
The Union's results by state
The AfD's results by state 2024-Germany-European-Parliament-AfD-gradient.svg
The AfD's results by state
The SPD's results by state 2024-Germany-European-Parliament-SPD-gradient.svg
The SPD's results by state
The Grune's results by state 2024-Germany-European-Parliament-Grune-gradient.svg
The Grüne's results by state
The BSW's results by state 2024-Germany-European-Parliament-BSW-gradient.svg
The BSW's results by state
The FDP's results by state 2024-Germany-European-Parliament-FDP-gradient.svg
The FDP's results by state
2024 European Parliament election in Germany - Results.svg
Party or allianceVotes%Seats+/–
EPP Christian Democratic Union of Germany without CSU/Bavaria9,431,56723.70230
ESN Alternative for Germany 6,324,00815.8915+4
S&D Social Democratic Party of Germany 5,548,52813.9414–2
G/EFA Alliance 90/The Greens 4,736,91311.9012–9
EPP Christian Social Union in Bavaria (Bavaria only)2,513,3006.3260
NI Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance 2,453,6526.176New
RE Free Democratic Party 2,060,4575.1850
GUE-NGL The Left 1,091,2682.743–2
RE Free Voters 1,062,1322.673+1
G/EFA Volt Germany 1,023,1612.573+2
NI Die PARTEI 775,3921.9520
GUE-NGL Human Environment Animal Protection Party 570,4981.4310
EPP Ecological Democratic Party 257,9680.6510
EPP Family Party of Germany 243,9750.6110
NI Party of Progress 227,6310.571New
G/EFA Pirate Party Germany 186,7730.470–1
NI Action Party for Animal Welfare 173,4430.4400
ECR Bündnis Deutschland 164,4770.410New
NI Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening 148,7240.370New
NI MERA25 – United for European Independence 118,6160.3000
NI Voice of the Last Generation  [ de ]104,3400.260New
NI Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany 99,5020.250New
NI Party of Humanists 82,2750.2100
NI Alliance C – Christians for Germany 75,0530.1900
NI V-Partei³ 55,4400.140New
NI Human World 54,0980.1400
NI The Homeland 41,0060.1000
NI Klimaliste Deutschland 31,5040.080New
NI Alliance for Innovation and Justice 31,1410.0800
NI Party of Reason 29,5080.070New
NI Citizens for Justice Action  [ de ]26,5060.070New
NI Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research 18,9350.0500
NI German Communist Party 14,9450.0400
NI Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany 13,5530.0300
NI Socialist Equality Party, Fourth International 5,9230.0100
Total39,796,212100.00960
Valid votes39,796,21299.17
Invalid/blank votes332,1360.83
Total votes40,128,348100.00
Registered voters/turnout61,779,63664.95
Source: Die Bundeswahlleiterin

Results by state

The AfD and the BSW overperformed drastically in the former East Germany, [45] except for Berlin, [e] where the Greens secured the first place, albeit with 8.2% less than in 2019. [46] Overall, the AfD got the highest vote totals in all five former East German states, while the Union secured pluralities in all eight non-city-states to the west of the former border. In addition to Berlin, the Greens also maintained a plurality in the port city-state of Hamburg, though at a 9.9 percentage points lower level than in 2019, while the SPD came first in Bremen, though with 3% less of the vote than in 2019. [4]

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AfD's swing by state:
  +0% to +2.5%
  +2.5% to +5%
  +5% to +7.5%
  +7.5% to +10%
  +10% or more

Results for each party by state. [47]

State Union AfD SPD Grüne BSW FDP Linke Others
Flag of Baden-Wurttemberg.svg  Baden-Württemberg 32.014.711.613.84.56.81.914.7
Flag of Bavaria (lozengy).svg  Bavaria 39.712.68.911.83.83.91.417.9
Flag of Berlin.svg  Berlin [f] 17.611.613.219.68.74.37.317.7
Flag of Brandenburg.svg  Brandenburg [f] 18.427.513.16.013.83.24.413.6
Flag of Bremen.svg  Bremen 19.810.221.516.25.65.35.815.6
Flag of Hamburg.svg  Hamburg 18.48.018.721.24.97.05.116.7
Flag of Hesse.svg  Hesse 30.013.616.412.94.46.32.513.9
Flag of Lower Saxony.svg  Lower Saxony 31.413.219.512.24.55.32.111.8
Flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.svg  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [f] 21.528.310.34.816.42.64.911.2
Flag of North Rhine-Westphalia.svg  North Rhine-Westphalia 31.212.617.213.54.46.32.112.7
Flag of Rhineland-Palatinate.svg  Rhineland-Palatinate 30.714.717.59.34.75.91.715.5
Flag of Saarland.svg  Saarland 29.315.720.56.67.94.72.013.3
Flag of Saxony.svg  Saxony [f] 21.831.86.95.912.62.44.913.7
Flag of Saxony-Anhalt (state).svg  Saxony-Anhalt [f] 22.830.58.73.915.02.54.811.8
Flag of Schleswig-Holstein.svg  Schleswig-Holstein 30.212.216.715.44.16.32.312.8
Flag of Thuringia.svg  Thuringia [f] 23.230.78.24.215.02.05.711.0

Electorate

Demographic Union Grüne SPD AfD Linke FDP BSW Other
Total vote30.0%11.9%13.9%15.9%2.7%5.2%6.2%14.2%
Sex
Men30%11%13%19%2%6%5%14%
Women30%13%15%12%3%5%7%15%
Age
16–24 years old17%11%9%16%6%7%6%28%
25–34 years old19%15%9%18%4%6%5%24%
35–44 years old26%14%10%20%2%5%5%18%
45–59 years old31%13%13%18%2%5%6%12%
60–69 years old33%11%18%15%2%5%7%9%
70 and older46%7%23%8%2%5%6%3%
Employment status
Self-employed30%15%9%17%2%10%6%11%
Employees29%13%13%15%3%5%6%16%
Workers24%6%12%33%3%3%6%13%
Pensioners41%8%21%11%2%5%7%5%
Education
Simple education38%4%18%22%2%2%3%11%
Medium education31%6%13%23%3%4%7%13%
High education27%18%13%10%3%7%6%16%
Source: Infratest dimap [48]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Free Voters are in the regional parliament of Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. ↑ Alliance Germany is represented in Bremen's parliament through its merger with Citizens in Rage
  3. ↑ Die Partei has 2 seats, Tierschutz has one seat.
  4. ↑ Including Berlin
  5. ↑ During the Cold War, Berlin was divided: its western half was a part of West Germany, while the eastern part was the capital of East Germany
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 formerly part of East Germany

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