European elections 1979

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European elections 1979
        

Distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups:

SOZ Socialists 113
EPP Christian Democrats 107
ED conservative 64
COM Communists 44
LD liberal 40
EPD Gaullists, conservatives 22nd
CDI Radical liberals, EU skeptics,
nationalists		 11
Non-attached 9
Opening of the European election campaign of the SPD with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (at the lectern) and Willy Brandt in Nuremberg on May 20, 1979
Special postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost

The European elections in June 1979 were the first European elections to the European Parliament in the history of the European Community . It took place between June 7 and 10, 1979. The previous European Parliaments were formed by representatives of the national parliaments. It was elected by the people in all nine member states in accordance with their respective national electoral laws. The average turnout was 63 percent. The Socialist Group became the strongest group . Simone Veil was elected President of Parliament.

Distribution of seats

fraction BE DE DK FR IE IT LU NL UK Seats %
  Socialist Group (Social Democrats) 7th 35 4th 22nd 4th 13 1 9 18th 113 27.6
  European People's Party (Christian Democrats) 10 42 8th 4th 30th 3 10 107 26.1
  European Democrats (Conservatives) 3 61 64 15.6
  Communist and Allies Group 1 19th 24 44 10.7
  Liberal and Democratic Group 4th 4th 3 17th 1 5 2 4th 40 9.8
  European democrats for progress 1 15th 5 1 22nd 5.4
  Technical Group of Independents 1 4th 1 5 11 2.7
  Non-attached MPs 2 4th 2 1 9 2.2
  24 81 16 81 15th 81 6th 25th 81 410

Members of Parliament

Distribution of seats by country

The distribution of the seats by member country was regulated as follows:

In addition, 24 observers from Greece came from the national parliament. After the country joined on January 1, 1981, these became members of parliament. On October 18, 1981 , the Greek MPs were elected by the people.

See also

Web links

Commons : European elections 1979  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recording from the Federal Archives
  2. ^ Wichard Woyke: History of the European elections | bpb. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ At that time the EC consisted of the six founding states and the states Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark that joined on January 1, 1973
  4. ↑ Until 1993 the group was called the Socialist Group . europarl.europa.eu