European elections in the Republic of Cyprus 2009
The 2009 European elections in the Republic of Cyprus took place on June 6, 2009. It was carried out in the course of the EU- wide European elections in 2009 , with 6 of the 736 seats in the European Parliament being awarded in the Republic of Cyprus .
The six parties that were represented in the Cypriot parliament at the time ran for the election : the conservative DISY , the communist AKEL , the liberal-centrist DIKO , the social-democratic EDEK , the centrist Evroko and the green KOP . There were also a few other small parties and independent candidates.
The turnout was 58.9% and was thus significantly higher than the European average, but also significantly lower than the 72.5% in the 2004 European elections in Cyprus . In detail, the parties achieved the following results:
Political party | European party |
EP group until 2009 |
be right | percent | Change from 2004 |
Seats | Change from 2004 |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DISY | EPP | EPP-ED | 109.209 | 35.7% | + 7.5% | 2 | ± 0 | |
AKEL | Tbsp | GUE / NGL | 106,922 | 34.9% | + 7.0% | 2 | ± 0 | |
DIKO | - | ALDE | 37,625 | 12.3% | −4.8% | 1 | ± 0 | |
EDEK | SPE | - | 30,169 | 9.9% | −0.9% | 1 | +1 | |
Evreko | EDP | ALDE | 12.630 | 4.1% | −6.7% | 0 | −1 | |
LAD | EGP | - | 4,602 | 1.5% | + 0.7% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Others | 5,168 | 1.7% | −2.8% | 0 | ± 0 | |||
total | 100% | 6th | ± 0 |
After the election, the affiliations of various Cypriot parties in parliament changed. The Group EPP-ED told on himself; however, the DISY remained in the larger sub -group , the EPP group . The newly elected EDEK joined the social democratic group S&D . The DIKO MP finally switched from the liberal ALDE parliamentary group to the social democratic S&D.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the results of the elections on the homepage of the Cypriot government ( memento of the original of June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Greek)