Results of the elections to the European Parliament in Germany

The following tables show the results of the direct elections to the European Parliament in Germany . The results highlighted in gray represent parties that have made it into the European Parliament .

Overview

Political party	June 10, 1979	17th June 1984	June 18, 1989	June 12, 1994	June 13, 1999	June 13, 2004	June 7, 2009	May 25, 2014	May 26, 2019
voter turnout	65.7%	56.8%	62.3%	60.0%	45.2%	43.0%	43.3%	48.1%	61.4%
Threshold clause	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	-	-
Social Democratic Party of Germany	40.8	37.4	37.3	32.2	30.7	21.5	20.8	27.3	15.8
Christian Democratic Union of Germany 1	39.1	37.5	29.5	32.0	39.3	36.5	30.7	30.0	22.6
Christian-Social Union in Bavaria 2	10.1	8.5	8.2	6.8	9.4	8.0	7.2	5.3	6.3
Free Democratic Party	6.0	4.8	5.6	4.1	3.0	6.1	11.0	3.4	5.4
Alliance 90 / The Greens 3	3.2	8.2	8.4	10.1	6.4	11.9	12.1	10.7	20.5
The Republicans	-	-	7.1	3.9	1.7	1.9	1.3	0.4	-
Party of Democratic Socialism / The Left 4	-	-	-	4.7	5.8	6.1	7.5	7.4	5.5
National Democratic Party of Germany / German People's Union	-	0.8	1.6 17	0.2	0.4	0.9	0.4 17	1.0	0.3
Ecological Democratic Party	-	0.3	0.7	0.8	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.6	1.0
Family party of Germany	-	-	-	0.0 11	0.0 11	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.7
Human Environment Animal Welfare Party	-	-	-	-	0.7	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.4
Free voters	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.7	1.5	2.2
Pirate Party Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.9	1.4	0.7
Alternative for Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.1	11.0
The party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6	2.4
Volt Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7
German Communist Party	0.4	1.3 5	0.2	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Bavaria Party	0.2 16	0.1 2	0.3	0.3	0.1 2	0.1 2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Civil rights movement Solidarity	0.1 6	0.1 6	0.0 7	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	-
German Center Party	0.1	0.4	0.1	-	0.0	0.1	-	-	-
Feminist Party Women	-	0.4 9	-	-	0.4	0.6	0.3	-	0.1
The mature citizens	-	0.2 3	0.1	-	-	-	-	-	-
European Federalist Party	-	0.1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Eco union	-	-	0.2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Christian center	-	-	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	-
Christian League	-	-	0.1	0.1	-	-	-	-	-
New consciousness the holistic esoteric party of Germany	-	-	0.1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Freedom German Workers Party	-	-	0.1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Humanist party	-	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	-	-	-
Platform Europe for Workers and Democracy	-	-	0.0 10	0.0	-	-	-	-	-
Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany	-	-	0.0	-	-	-	-	0.1	0.0
Bund Socialist Workers / Party for Social Equality / Socialist Equality Party 8	-	-	0.1	0.0	-	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Association of Free Citizens	-	-	-	1.1	-	-	-	-	-
The grays - gray panthers	-	-	-	0.8	0.4	1.2	0.2 14	-	0.2 18
German motorist and citizens' interest party	-	-	-	0.7	0.4	-	-	-	-
Instead of party	-	-	-	0.5	-	-	-	-	-
Party of the willing and socially disadvantaged	-	-	-	0.4	0.3	-	-	-	-
New forum	-	-	-	0.3	-	-	-	-	-
Party of Biblical Christians / Alliance C - Christians for Germany 13	-	-	-	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2
Natural law party	-	-	-	0.3	0.1	-	-	-	-
German Social Union	-	-	-	0.2	-	-	-	-	-
The ungovernable - autonomous list	-	-	-	0.1	-	-	-	-	-
Automobile taxpayer party	-	-	-	-	0.1	-	-	-	-
From now on ... democracy through referendum	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 12	0.3	0.3	0.2
Action Independent Candidates	-	-	-	-	-	0.3	0.2 15	-	-
German party	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	-	-	-
Departure for civil rights, freedom and health	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	0.1	-	-
Pensioners Party Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.8	-	-
Retirees' party	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4	-	-
50Plus The generation alliance	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3	-	-
The violets - for spiritual politics	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	-	0.1
ON - Party for Work, Environment and Family	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	0.2	-
Free citizens' initiative	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	-	-
Newropeans	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	-	-
Europe - Democracy - Esperanto	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.0	-	-
Citizens' movement pro NRW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	-
Democracy in Europe - DiEM25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3
Action party for animal welfare	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3
Party for the Animals Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2
The grays - for all generations	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2
Health Research Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2
Alliance for Innovation & Justice	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2
Alliance for human rights, animal and nature protection	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2
Party of humanists	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2
LKR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
Basic Income Alliance	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
Ecological left	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
Human world	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
European party love	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
Democracy Direct	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
The right	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1
New liberals	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.0
The third way	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.0

¹State lists in all federal states except Bavaria

²State list only in Bavaria

³1979 as SPV Die Grünen, 1984 and 1989 as party Die Grünen

^4th 1994 to 2004 Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)

⁵ Peace list

^6thas the European Workers' Party

^7thas patriots for Germany

^8th 1989 and 1994 BSA, 1999 to 2014 PSG, 2019 SGP

⁹ Women's party

¹⁰as for a Europe of workers and democracy

¹¹State list only in Saarland

¹²Short name Germany

¹³ Alliance C from 2019

^14th The gray generation party

^15th For referendums , with independent candidates

¹⁶ Christian Bavarian People's Party (CBV)

^17th German People's Union (DVU), the NPD renounced in favor of the DVU

^18th Gray panthers

Distribution of seats

The allocation of seats at the beginning of the legislative period is given ; later changes can be found in the section Changing parliamentary groups and parties during election periods .

Political party		Parliamentary group *	1979	1984	1989	1994	1999	2004	2009	2014	2019
	SPD	S&D	35 (1)	33 (1)	31 (1)	40	33	23	23	27	16
	CDU	EPP	34 (2)	34 (2)	25 (1)	39	43	40	34	29	23
	CSU	EPP	8th	7th	7th	8th	10	9	8th	5	6th
	FDP	RE	4th	0	4th	0	0	7th	12	3	5
	Green	Greens / EFA (G)	0	7th	8 (A)	12	7th	13	14th	11	21st
	REP	DR	-	-	6th	0	0	0	0	0	-
	left	GUE / NGL	-	-	-	0 (P)	6 (P)	7 (P)	8th	7th	5
	AfD	ID (R)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	11
	Free voters	RE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	1	2
	Pirates	Greens / EFA	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	1	1
	Animal welfare party	GUE / NGL	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	1	1
	family	EKR	-	-	-	0	0	0	0	1	1
	ÖDP	Greens / EFA	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	NPD	-	-	0	-	0	0	0	-	1	0
	The party	- (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2
	volt	Greens / EFA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
total			81 (3)	81 (3)	81 (3)	99	99	99	99	96	96

⁽¹⁾Including a member elected by the Berlin House of Representatives.

⁽²⁾ Including two members elected by the Berlin House of Representatives.

⁽³⁾ Including three members elected by the Berlin House of Representatives.

^(A)Including a member elected by the Berlin House of Representatives who belonged to the independent Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection (AL).

^(P)As a party of democratic socialism (PDS).

^*Current or last parliamentary group. Affiliations to previous parliamentary groups are given in footnotes, unless the previous parliamentary group is clear.

^(D) From 2019 a Member of the Greens / EFA.

^(G)1984–1989 Rainbow Group, 1989–1999 Group The Greens .

^(R)2014–2016 EKR , 2016–2019 EFDD

^- not started

Change of faction and party during election periods

• In December 1989 Dorothee Piermont (Greens) moved from the Greens to the Rainbow Group and later left the party.
• In December 1990 Franz Schönhuber (REP) left the DR parliamentary group; also in December 1990, Harald Neubauer and Johanna Grund were excluded from the REP, in May 1991 they left the DR parliamentary group, Neubauer founded the DLVH ; Emil Schlee left the DR parliamentary group and the REP in April 1991; Klaus-Peter Köhler and Hans-Günter Schodruch left the REP in February 1991, but remained in the DR parliamentary group.
• In November 1991, elected for the Greens left independents Karl Partsch the Green Group and the Liberal Group followed.
• In September 2000 Ilka Schröder left the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, in September 2001 she switched from the Greens / EFA parliamentary group to the GUE / NGL parliamentary group.
• In October 2000 Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler and Ozan Ceyhun moved from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen to the SPD and from the Greens / EFA parliamentary group to the Social Democratic parliamentary group.
• In December 2014, Stefan Bernhard Eck left the animal welfare party, but remained in the GUE / NGL parliamentary group.
• In July 2015, five members of the AfD joined the ALFA party, later LKR , but remained in the EKR faction. Four of them, Bernd Kölmel , Hans-Olaf Henkel , Ulrike Trebesius and Joachim Starbatty left the LKR in September 2018.
• Beatrix von Storch (AfD) switched from the EKR parliamentary group to the EFDD parliamentary group on April 8, 2016 in order to anticipate her exclusion from the EKR. After she left the European Parliament in October 2017, her successor Jörg Meuthen also joined the EFDD.
• Marcus Pretzell (AfD) was expelled from the EKR parliamentary group on April 12, 2016 and joined the ENF parliamentary group at the beginning of May 2016 . He left the AfD at the end of September 2017 and switched to the Blue Party .
• Arne Gericke switched from the family party to the Free Voters in May 2017 and to Alliance C in October 2018 , but remained in the EKR parliamentary group.
• Julia Reda resigned from the Pirate Party on March 27, 2019.
• Martin Buschmann resigned from the GUE / NGL parliamentary group and the animal welfare party on January 28, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Parliament, 3rd electoral term: Johanna-Christina GRUND.
2. ↑ European Parliament, 3rd electoral term: Emil SCHLEE.
3. ↑ European Parliament, 3rd electoral term: Hans-Günter SCHODRUCH.
4. ↑ European Parliament, 3rd electoral term: Klaus-Peter KÖHLER.
5. ↑ European Parliament, 5th electoral term: Ilka SCHRÖDER.
6. ↑ European Parliament, 7th electoral term: Wolfgang KREISSL-DÖRFLER.
7. ↑ European Parliament, 5th electoral term: Ozan CEYHUN.
8. ↑ European elections 2019: Arne Gericke is the top candidate of Bündnis C. www.idea.de, October 23, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2019 . 
9. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: NPD past: MEP Martin Buschmann leaves left-wing faction - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .