European elections in 1984

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Distribution of seats by parliamentary group upon constitution ( gains / losses compared to the end of the previous legislative period ):
	SOZ	Socialists	130	- 06
	EPP	Christian Democrats	110	- 07th
	ED	conservative	50	-13
	COM	Communists	41	- 07th
	LD	liberal	31	- 07th
	EDA	Gaullists, conservatives	29	+ 07
	RBW	Greens, regionalists	20th	New
	HE	Right-wing extremists	16	New
	Non-attached		7th	- 03
total			434	± 00

Special postage stamp of the German Federal Post Office for the elections

The European elections in June 1984 were the second European elections in the history of the European Community and took place from 14 to 17 June 1984. As in 1979, the strongest parliamentary group was the Socialist Group . The turnout was 61 percent.

Distribution of seats

fraction		Chairman	BE	DE	DK	FR	GR	IE	IT	LU	NL	UK	Seats	%
	Socialist Group (Social Democrats)	Rudi Arndt (SPD)	7th	33	4th	20th	10		12	2	9	33	130	30.0
	European People's Party (Christian Democrats)	Egon Klepsch (CDU)	6th	41	1	9	9	6th	27	3	8th		110	25.3
	European Democrats (Conservatives)	Henry Plumb (CUP)			4th							46	50	11.5
	Communists and Allies Group (Communists)	Giovanni Cervetti (PCI)			1	10	4th		26th				41	9.4
	Liberal and Democratic Group (Liberals)	Simone Veil (UDF)	5		2	12		1	5	1	5		31	7.1
	European Democrats (Gaullists) rallying movement	Christian de La Malène (RPR)				20th		8th				1	29	6.7
	Rainbow (Greens and Regionalists)	Else Hammerich (Folkebevægelsen) Jaak Vandemeulebroucke (VU) Bram van der Lek (PSP) Paul Staes (Agalev)	4th	7th	4th				3		2		20th	4.6
	European rights (right-wing extremists)	Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN)				10	1		5				16	3.7
	Non-attached MPs	-	2						3		1	1	7th	1.6
			24	81	16	81	24	15th	81	6th	25th	81	434

Results by country

Belgium

In Belgium the elections took place on June 17th. The Dutch and French speaking MPs were elected separately. The Dutch speakers sent 13 and the French 11 delegates.

Result in the Dutch-speaking community :

Political party	fraction	percent	Seats	be right
Christelijke Volkspartij (CVP)	EPP	32.53	4th	1,132,682
Socialist Party (SP)	SOC	28.13	3 *	979.702
Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats (VLD)	LD	14.19	2	494.277
Volksunie (VU)	RBW	13.91	2	484.494
Anders Gaan Leven (Agalev)	RBW	7.08	1	246.712
Vlaams Blok (VB)	-	2.10	0	73.174
Others	-	2.05	0	71.239

* of which a non-attached independent MP

Result in the French-speaking community :

Political party	fraction	percent	Seats	be right
Parti Socialiste (PS)	SOC	34.04	4 *	762.293
Parti Réformateur Libéral (PRL)	LD	24.14	3	540.610
Parti Social Chrétien (PSC)	EPP	19.47	2	436.108
Ecolo (Ecologistes)	RBW	9.85	1	220,663
Front démocratique des francophones (FDF)	-	6.38	0	142,879
Others	-	6.12	0	137.061

* of which a non-attached independent MP

Denmark

In Denmark, the election took place on June 14th.

Political party	fraction	percent	Seats
Folkebevægelsen mod EF	RBW	20.8	4th
Conservative Folk Party (KF)	ED	20.8	4th
Social Democrats (S)	SOC	19.4	3
Venstre (V)	LD	12.5	2
Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF)	COM	9.2	1
Center Democrats (CD)	EPP	6.6	1
Siumut (Greenland)	SOC	-	1
Others	-	10.6	0

Germany

Election poster for the European elections

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In Germany, the election took place on June 17th.

Political party	fraction	percent	Seats	be right
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	EPP	37.5	34	9,308,411
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	SOC	37.4	33	9,296,417
Christian Social Union (CSU)	EPP	8.5	7th	2.109.130
The Greens (GREEN)	RBW	8.2	7th	2,025,972
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	-	4.8	0	1,192,624
Others	-	3.7	0	918.817

France

Political party	fraction	percent	Seats
Union for French Democrats - Rassemblement pour la République (UDF-RPR)	LD / EDA	43.02	41
Parti socialiste (PS)	SOC	20.75	20th
Parti communiste français (PCF)	COM	11.20	10
Front national (FN)	HE	10.95	10
Others	-	15.31	0

Netherlands

→ Main article : European elections in the Netherlands in 1984

Political party	fraction	percent	Seats
Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)	SOC	33.7	9
Christian Democratic Appèl (CDA)	EPP	30.0	8th
Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD)	LD	18.9	5
CPN - PSP - PPR (Great Progressive Accord)	RBW	5.6	2
SGP - GPV - RPF (Fundamental Christians)	-	5.2	1
Center Democrats (CD)	-	2.5	0
Democrats 66 (D66)	-	2.3	0
Europese Groenen (EG)	-	1.3	0
Others	-	0.4	0

See also

• List of members of the 2nd European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/divers/composition_EP/elections2009_composition-parliament_de.pdf

Web links

Commons : European Parliament election, 1984  - Pictures, videos and audio files collection

• Official final result of the 1984 European elections in Europe (French)
• Official final result of the European elections 1984 in the FRG