European elections in Luxembourg 1979

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Otherwise.

The European elections in Luxembourg in 1979 were the first direct election of members of the European Parliament. It took place on June 10, 1979 as part of the EU- wide European elections in 1979 . In Luxembourg , six of the 410 seats in the European Parliament were awarded using the D'Hondt procedure . The Luxembourg parliamentary election took place at the same time as the election .

Result

As expected, the ruling Christian Democratic CSV became the strongest party. She was able to secure half of the seats. The second strongest party was the liberal DP; in the European elections she received 6.2 percentage points more than in the simultaneous election to the Chamber of Deputies and was thus able to secure two seats. One mandate went to the social democratic LSAP.

Political party	EP Group	be right	proportion of	Seats
Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei (CSV)	EPP	352.296	36.12%	3
Democratic Party (DP)	LD	274.307	28.12%	2
Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Arbechterpartei (LSAP)	S.	211.106	21.64%	1
Social Democratic Party (SDP)	-	68,289	7.00%	-
Communist Party Lëtzebuerg (KPL)	-	48,813	5.00%	-
Alternative list (AL)	-	9,845	1.01%	-
Liberal Party (LP)	-	5,610	0.58%	-
Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR)	-	5,085	0.52%	-
total			100.0	6th

The following were elected:

• Victor Abens (LSAP)
• Fernand Boden (CSV)
  • Resigned from office on July 19, 1979; Successor Jean Spautz (until March 4, 1980), then Marcelle Lentz-Cornette
• Colette Flesch (DP)
  • Resigned from office on November 22, 1980; Successor René Mart
• Jacques Santer (CSV)
  • Resigned from office on July 19, 1979; Successor on August 14, 1979 Nicolas Estgen
• Gaston Thorn (DP)
  • Resigned from office on July 18, 1979; Successor Jean Hamilius (until January 14, 1982), then vacant
• Pierre Werner (CSV)
  • Mandate not accepted; Successor Jean Wolter resigned on July 18, 1979, followed by Marc Fischbach on July 19, 1979

literature

• Bulletin with the detailed results of the 1979 elections, pp. 8-10. Digitized version on the website of the Information and Press Office of the Luxembourg Government, PDF file, 4.7 MB (French)

See also

• List of members of the 1st European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ List of former EU parliamentarians on the EU Parliament's website, accessed on February 3, 2019.