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Europe Elects is a political intelligence company and poll aggregator [3] that collects and publishes election-related data such as opinion polls in European countries. It is also known for its monthly European Parliament seat projection, which it has been publishing since 2014.
France now represents only 9.8% of all European MEPs compared to 12.5% in 2004 and 19.8% in 1979, following the first European election. The turnout in European elections in France has almost always declined, with the sole exception of an increase in 1994, falling from 60.7% turnout in the 1979 election to 43.1% in the latest election in 2004.
The 2009 European Parliament election was held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. [1] A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent some 500 million [ 2 ] Europeans, making these the biggest trans-national elections in history.
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's. [1] Until 2019, 751 MEPs [2] were elected to the European Parliament, which has been directly elected since 1979.
Both parties increased their scores at the expense of the Socialist Party. The Left Bloc won 10.7 percent of the vote and three European Parliament members, their best score in EU elections to date, and CDU surpassed once again the 10 percent mark winning 10.6 percent of the vote, but maintaining the two European Parliament members they got in ...
Elections to the European Parliament saw declining voter turnout between 1979 and 2014. However, voter turnout in 2019 European elections increased by 8 points compared to 2014. [1] In spite of this exception for all Member States, the electoral mobilization remains weak compared to the national parliamentary elections. [2]
It was the DUP's worst ever European election result: the party had previously topped the poll in every European election in Northern Ireland since the first one in 1979. [6] It was also the first time an Irish Republican topped the poll, Bairbre de Brún of Sinn Féin coming first with 125,000 votes.
The Christian Union-SGP was in the Independence/Democracy group, but this group did not meet the requirements to be a group in the European Parliament and was dissolved. The Christian Union and SGP entered talks with the European Conservatives after the elections. The SGP was asked to change their stance on women's issues, but declined.