2019 European Parliament election in Germany

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All 96 German seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	61.38% ( 13.24 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– CDU/CSU Manfred Weber 28.9% 29 −5 Greens Ska Keller 20.5% 21 +10 SPD Katarina Barley 15.8% 16 −11 AfD Jörg Meuthen 11.0% 11 +4 Left Martin Schirdewan 5.5% 6 −1 FDP Nicola Beer 5.4% 5 +2 Die PARTEI Martin Sonneborn 2.4% 2 +1 FW Ulrike Müller 2.2% 2 +1 Tierschutzpartei Martin Buschmann 1.4% 1 0 ÖDP Klaus Buchner 1.0% 1 0 Familie Helmut Geuking 0.7% 1 0 Volt Damian Boeselager 0.7% 1 +1 Pirates Patrick Breyer 0.6% 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results of the election. The map on the left shows the results by district. The map in the upper right shows results by state.

The 2019 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 26 May 2019, electing the 96 members of the national Germany constituency to the European Parliament. Both the CDU/CSU and SPD suffered major losses, while the Greens became the second largest party in a national-level election for the first time in German history.

Background

The 2019 European Parliament election was first national election to be held in Germany since the 2017 federal election, in which Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats suffered major losses, while the right-wing, Eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered parliament in third place. In 2018, the Greens and the AfD made large gains in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, with the Greens moving into second place in each, whilst the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats each suffered 10+ point swings. Federal polling saw the Greens take a consistent lead over the SPD since October.

Electoral threshold

Since the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have a formal threshold of the vote share required in order for a party to win an EP seat. This has allowed a number of smaller parties to gain representation, since they only have to reach about 0.5% of the vote share needed to get their first seat with the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

Although the European Council had recommended that countries with greater than 35 MEPs should introduce a threshold between 2–5%, the German government abandoned its plans for a 2% threshold in November 2018.^[1]

Opinion polls

Graphical summary

Federal level

By state

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Berlin

Hesse

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Christian Democratic Union	8,438,975	22.57	23	–6
	Alliance 90/The Greens	7,677,071	20.53	21	+10
	Social Democratic Party	5,916,882	15.82	16	–11
	Alternative for Germany	4,104,453	10.98	11	+4
	Christian Social Union	2,355,067	6.30	6	+1
	The Left	2,056,049	5.50	5	–2
	Free Democratic Party	2,028,594	5.42	5	+2
	Die PARTEI	899,079	2.40	2	+1
	Free Voters	806,703	2.16	2	+1
	Human Environment Animal Protection	542,226	1.45	1	0
	Ecological Democratic Party	369,869	0.99	1	0
	Family Party	273,828	0.73	1	0
	Volt Germany	249,098	0.67	1	New
	Pirate Party Germany	243,302	0.65	1	0
	Democracy in Europe Movement 2025	130,229	0.35	0	New
	National Democratic Party	101,011	0.27	0	–1
	Action Party for Animal Protection	99,780	0.27	0	New
	Party for the Animals	85,809	0.23	0	New
	Bavaria Party	81,880	0.22	0	0
	Grey Panthers	76,255	0.20	0	New
	The Greys	71,295	0.19	0	New
	Partei für Gesundheitsforschung	70,869	0.19	0	New
	Alliance for Innovation and Justice	68,647	0.18	0	New
	Alliance for Human Rights, Animal and Nature Protection	68,572	0.18	0	New
	Alliance C – Christians for Germany	66,327	0.18	0	New
	Party of Humanists	62,604	0.17	0	New
	From now on... Democracy by Referendum	58,400	0.16	0	0
	Feminist Party	55,293	0.15	0	New
	Liberal Conservative Reformers	43,961	0.12	0	New
	Basic Income Alliance	40,818	0.11	0	New
	Ecological Left	35,796	0.10	0	New
	Human World	34,470	0.09	0	New
	European Party Love	33,160	0.09	0	New
	The Violets	27,784	0.07	0	New
	Democracy Direct	25,449	0.07	0	New
	The Right	24,598	0.07	0	New
	German Communist Party	20,396	0.05	0	0
	Marxist–Leninist Party	18,342	0.05	0	0
	New Liberals	15,909	0.04	0	New
	Third Way	12,756	0.03	0	New
	Socialist Equality Party	5,283	0.01	0	0
Total		37,396,889	100.00	96	0
Valid votes		37,396,889	98.91
Invalid/blank votes		410,857	1.09
Total votes		37,807,746	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		61,600,263	61.38
Source: Federal Returning Officer

Results by state

Results for each party by state.^[2]

State	Union	Grüne	SPD	AfD	Linke	FDP	Others
Baden-Württemberg	30.8	23.3	13.3	10.0	3.1	6.8	12.7
Bavaria	40.7	19.1	9.3	8.5	2.4	3.4	16.6
Berlin	15.2	27.8	14.0	9.9	11.9	4.7	16.5
Brandenburg	18.0	12.3	17.2	19.9	12.3	4.4	15.9
Bremen	21.8	22.7	24.5	7.7	7.9	4.7	10.7
Hamburg	17.7	31.2	19.8	6.5	7.0	5.6	12.2
Hesse	25.8	23.4	18.4	9.9	4.4	6.4	11.7
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	24.5	10.8	15.6	17.7	13.9	3.9	13.6
Lower Saxony	29.9	22.6	20.9	7.9	3.8	5.0	9.9
North Rhine-Westphalia	27.9	23.2	19.2	8.5	4.2	6.7	10.3
Rhineland-Palatinate	31.3	16.7	21.3	9.8	3.1	5.8	12.0
Saarland	32.5	13.2	23.1	9.6	6.0	3.7	11.9
Saxony	23.0	10.3	8.6	25.3	11.7	4.7	16.4
Saxony-Anhalt	23.2	9.2	12.5	20.4	14.4	4.9	15.4
Schleswig-Holstein	26.2	29.1	17.1	7.4	3.7	5.9	10.6
Thuringia	24.7	8.6	11.0	22.5	13.8	4.4	15.0

Maps

Post-poll alliance

EPP	S&D	RE	G-EFA	ID	ECR	GUE/NGL	NI	Total
23 (CDU) 6 (CSU)	16 (SPD)	5 (FDP) 2 (FW)	21 (B'90/Grüne) 2 (Partei) 1 (ÖDP) 1 (Volt) 1 (Piraten)	11 (AfD)	1 (Familie)	5 (Linke) 1 (Tierschutz)		96

Elected MEPs