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Voter turnout in the European Parliament election 2009. A poll sampling nineteen national polls predicted the following results: EPP 265 seats, PES 195, ALDE 95, GUE–NGL 40, Greens-EFA 35, UEN 35. The remaining 70 MEPs were not predicted, but about 20 were expected to be gained by far-right or Libertas candidates.
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.
Logo and slogan of the European Parliament election 2014: Act. React. Impact. Each Member State has different rules determining who can vote for and run as the European Parliamentary candidates. In Spain v United Kingdom, the European Court of Justice held that member states are permitted to extend the franchise to non-EU citizens. [43]
The European Parliament election results confirmed the tendency towards a two-party system. While country-wide each of the two parties has won slightly less than 1/3 of the votes (in the end each got 1/3 of the seats in the EP), the two became the main political contestants in almost every county.
Voters in the parliament's 27 countries in recent days also elected candidates who are in prison, have been kicked out of their delegation and withdrew from the election only to win seats, anyway. Here's a closer look at unusual candidates-turned-MEPs — members of the European Parliament, representing some 400 million eligible voters. Cyprus
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.
2009 European Parliament election in Slovenia ← 2004 7 June 2009 2014 → 7 seats to the European Parliament Turnout 28.36% First party Second party Third party Leader Milan Zver Zoran Thaler Lojze Peterle Party SDS SD NSi Alliance EPP PES EPP Last election 17.65% 14.65% 23.75% Seats before 2 1 2 Seats after 2 + 1 2 2 Seat change 1 1 0 Popular vote 123.369 85.402 76.497 Percentage 26.66% 18. ...