European elections in Germany 1979

European elections in Germany 19791984 →

Turnout: 65.7%

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

49.2

40.8

6.1

3.2

0.8

Otherwise.

German seats in the European Parliament

A total of 81 seats

SPD : 35
FDP : 4
CDU : 34
CSU : 8

Including Berlin MPs

Opening event of the SPD election campaign in Nuremberg

Election poster of the CDU

The European elections in Germany in 1979 were the first direct election of 78 German members of the European Parliament . It took place on June 10, 1979 as part of the EU-wide European elections in 1979 . Nine parties and other political associations ran for election .

Three other German MPs were sent from West Berlin . Due to the special status of the area, these were not elected directly, but by the Berlin House of Representatives. The local elections in Saarland in 1979 took place on the same day .

Result

The opposition parties CDU and CSU together won more mandates than the ruling SPD / FDP coalition. With the other political association Die Grünen, a green association took place nationwide for the first time ; Although it failed because of the threshold clause of 5%, the good result of 3.2% and the resulting party funding of 4.5 million marks led to the founding of the federal party Die Grünen in 1980.

	number	%
Eligible voters	42,751,940
voter turnout	26,923,614	65.7
Invalid votes	251,763	0.9
Valid votes	27,847,109	99.1

Party / organization	EP Group	be right		Seats
Party / organization	EP Group	number	%	Seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany	SPE	11,370,045	40.8	34
Christian Democratic Union of Germany	EPP	10,883,085	39.1	32
Christian-Social Union in Bavaria	EPP	2,817,120	10.1	8th
Free Democratic Party	LD	1,662,621	6.0	4th
THE GREEN		893.683	3.2	-
German Communist Party		112.055	0.4	-
Christian Bavarian People's Party CBV - League of People's Parties of Europe		45.311	0.2	-
European Workers' Party (EAP) in the association of the European Labor Party (ELP)		31,822	0.1	-
German Center Party - Action Democratic Community		31,367	0.1	-

In West Berlin, two members of the CDU and one of the SPD were elected.

Web links

Commons : European Parliament election, 1979 (Germany) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Federal Returning Officer : Eligible voters, voters, voting and distribution of seats in the European elections since 1979 ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 64 kB) @1@ 2
^ Elections to the European Parliament - results in Berlin-West

[Ergebnis-1] Federal Returning Officer : Eligible voters, voters, voting and distribution of seats in the European elections since 1979 ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 64 kB) @1@ 2

[2] Elections to the European Parliament - results in Berlin-West