European elections in Latvia 2009

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Turnout: 53.7%

 %

30th

20th

10

0

24.3

19.6

9.7

7.5

7.5

6.7

4.3

3.9

3.8

11.1

PS

SC ^b

PCTVL

LPP / LC

TB

JL

Libertas

SCP

LSDSP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to

 % p

 25th

 20th

 15th

 10

   5

   0

  -5

-10

-15

-20

-25

+24.3

+10.1

-1.0

-2.3

-22.3

-13.0

+4.3

+3.9

-0.1

+2.0

PS

SC ^b

PCTVL

LPP / LC

TB

JL

Libertas

SCP

LSDSP

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^b Electoral alliance of SDPS and LSP

Distribution of seats

      

A total of 8 seats

• PCTVL : 1
• SC : 2
• LPP / LC : 1
• JL : 1
• PS : 2
• TB : 1

The 2009 European elections in Latvia took place on June 6, 2009. It was carried out in the course of the EU- wide European elections in 2009 , with eight of the 736 seats in the European Parliament being awarded in Latvia . If the Lisbon Treaty comes into force during the 2009-14 legislative period, another Latvian MP will move up to the parliament.

Electoral process and campaigning parties

The election took place according to the proportional representation with preferential votes according to the D'Hondt procedure , whereby the whole country formed a single constituency . There was a threshold clause of 5 percent. Citizens aged 18 and over had the right to vote, and 21 and over to vote.

17 lists with a total of 185 candidates took part in the election. Five of them had already won seats in the 2004 European elections in Latvia . These were the right-wing conservative TB / LNNK (4 seats), the liberal-conservative JL (2 seats), the conservative TP , the Russian minority party PCTVL and the liberal LC (1 seat each), the latter running in an electoral alliance with the Christian Democratic LPP in 2009 .

Results

The turnout was 53.7% and was thus above the European average (43.1%) and also above the Latvian result in the 2004 European elections (41.3%).

Compared to 2004, the results changed significantly. The election winner was the conservative Pilsoniskā savienība (PS), founded in 2008, and the second strongest party was the socialist Saskaņas Centrs (SC) founded in 2005 . TB / LNNK, JL and TP lost markedly; the LPP-LC almost reached the level that LC had reached in 2004 alone, with the only mandate of the electoral alliance going to a member of the LPP. Only the result of the PCTVL hardly changed. The newly founded Eurosceptic party Libertas failed with 4.3% of the five percent hurdle.

In detail, the parties achieved the following results:

European elections in Latvia 2009
Political party	European party	EP Group	Voting share	change	Seats	change
Pilsoniskā savienība	-	EPP	24.3%	+ 24.3%	2	+2
Saskaņas Centrs	-	S&D / GUE-NGL	19.6%	+ 14.8%	2	+2
Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā	EFA	Greens / EFA	9.7%	+1.0%	1	-
Latvijas Pirmā partija / Latvijas Ceļš	- / ELDR	ALDE	7.5%	−1.9%	1	-
Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK	AEN	ECR	7.5%	−22.3%	1	−3
Jaunais Laiks	EPP	EPP	6.7%	−13.0%	1	−1
Libertas	Libertas	-	4.3%	+ 4.3%	0	-
Sabiedrība citai Politikai	-	-	3.9%	+ 3.9%	0	-
Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā Strādnieku Partija	SPE	-	3.8%	−1.0%	0	-
Zaļo un Zemnieku Savienība	EGP	-	3.7%	−0.5%	0	-
Tautas Partija	EPP	-	2.8%	−3.9%	0	−1
Others			4.7%	−5.9%	0	-
Total			100	-	8th	-1

Assignment to political groups in the European Parliament

Since the two strongest parties, PS and SC, did not belong to any European party and were not previously represented in Parliament, their assignment to the political groups in the European Parliament was initially uncertain. While the PS finally joined the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) , the two SC MPs split up: One of them became a member of the left-wing GUE / NGL faction, the other joined the social democratic S&D . The TB / LNNK had been a member of the national conservative group UEN until 2009 , which dissolved after the election. Instead, the TB / LNNK MP joined the new conservative group, the ECR . The MP from the LPP, which does not belong to any European party, joined the liberal ALDE faction , which also included the MP from the LC, which had entered into the list alliance with the LPP.

See also

• List of members of the 7th European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See results of the election on the website of the European Parliament .