European Parliament election, 2014 (Germany)

European Parliament election in Germany, 2014

25 May 2014

All 96 German seats to the European Parliament Turnout 48.1%[1]   First party Second party Third party   Leader David McAllister Martin Schulz Rebecca Harms Party CDU/CSU SPD Green Alliance EPP PES Green Last election 42 seats, 37.85% 23 seats, 20.78% 14 seats, 12.13% Seats won 34 27 11 Seat change −8 +4 −3 Popular vote 35.3% 27.3% 10.7% Percentage −2.55% +6.5% −1.43%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Gabi Zimmer Bernd Lucke Alexander Graf Lambsdorff Party Left AfD FDP Alliance Left ECR ALDE Last election 8 seats, 7.48% Did Not Contest 12 seats, 10.97% Seats won 7 7 3 Seat change −1 +7 −9 Popular vote 7.4% 7.1% 3.5% Percentage −0.08% N/A −7.47%

The European Parliament election, 2014 was held on 25 May 2014 in Germany. Under the Lisbon Treaty, Germany lost three seats and elected 96 members of the European Parliament, instead of the previous 99.

Electoral threshold

The previous electoral threshold of 5% was ruled unconstitutional in 2011, leading the major parties to implement a 3% threshold instead. However the Constitutional Court ruled on 26 February 2014 that this threshold was illegal as well.^[2] Under this circumstances a vote share of 0,6% proved sufficient to win an EP seat (result of Die PARTEI) and seven parties won single seats; the seats were allocated according to the largest remainder method.

Opinion polling compared with actual result

Date	Polling Firm	CDU/CSU	SPD	Green	FDP	Left	AfD	Others
22 May 2014	FGW	37.5	26.5	10	3.5	7.5	7	8
16 May 2014	FGW	38	27	11	3	8	6	7
14 May 2014	Infratest dimap	37	27	9	3	9	7	8
13 May 2014	YouGov	39	25	10	4	9	6	7
9 May 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	38	27	12	3	8	6	6
30 Apr 2014	infratest dimap	39	27	9	4	8	6	7
25 Apr 2014	INSA	36	28	11	4	9	7	5
11 Apr 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	39	27	11	3	8	6	6
3 Apr 2014	infratest dimap	40	28	9	3	7	6	7
28 Mar 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	39	26	12	3	8	6	6
14 Mar 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	38	26	11	4	8	6	7
9 Mar 2014	INSA	38	26	9.5	3	8.5	7.5	-
6 Mar 2014	Infratest	40	26	11	4	7	5	7
21 Feb 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	40	24	12	4	8	6	6
14 Feb 2014	INSA	39	25	10	3	10	8	5
6 Feb 2014	Infratest	38	29	10	4	8	6	5
26 Jan 2014	Emnid	42	26	10	3	8	7	4
2014
25 May 2014 (prelimitary results 401 of 402 districts)	Election Results	30.0 + 5.4	27.3	10.7	3.4	7.4	7.1
2014
7 Jun 2009	Election Results	37.9	20.8	12.1	11.0	7.5	N/A	9.8

Results

 Summary of the results of Germany's 25 May 2014 election to the European Parliament

← 2009 • 2014 • 2019 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU) + Christian Social Union (CSU)	EPP		10,374,758	35.36		34 / 96	8
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	EPP	David McAllister	8,807,500	30.02	0.7	29 / 96	5
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	PES	Martin Schulz	7,999,955	27.27	6.5	27 / 96	4
	Alliance '90/The Greens (B'90/GRÜNEN)	EGP	Rebecca Harms	3,138,201	10.70	1.4	11 / 96	3
	The Left (LINKE)	PEL	Gabi Zimmer	2,167,641	7.39	0.1	7 / 96	1
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	None	Bernd Lucke	2,065,162	7.04	7.0	7 / 96	7
	Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU)	EPP	Markus Ferber	1,567,258	5.34	1.9	5 / 96	3
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	ALDE	Alexander Graf Lambsdorff	986,253	3.36	7.6	3 / 96	9
	Free Voters (Freie Wähler)	EDP*	Ulrike Müller	428,524	1.46	0.2	1 / 96	1
	Pirate Party (Piraten)	None†	Julia Reda	424,510	1.45	0.5	1 / 96	1
	Human Environment Animal Protection (Tierschutzpartei)	None	Stefan Eck	366,303	1.25	0.1	1 / 96	1
	National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)	ENF	Udo Voigt	300,815	1.03	1.0	1 / 96	1
	Family Party of Germany (Familie)	None	Arne Gericke	202,871	0.69	0.3	1 / 96	1
	Ecological Democratic Party (ödp)	None	Klaus Buchner	185,119	0.64	0.1	1 / 96	1
	Die PARTEI (PARTEI)	None	Martin Sonneborn	184,525	0.63	0.6	1 / 96	1
	Others (parties and candidates that won less than 0.6% of the vote and no seats)			516,063	1.76	—	0 / 96	0
Valid votes				29,340,700	98.34
Blank and invalid votes				496,216	1.66
Totals				29,836,916	100.00	—	96 / 96	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				62,004,092	48.12	4.85
Source: German government *individual candidates

Post-Poll Alliance

EPP	S&D	ECR	ALDE	GUE/NGL	G-EFA	EFDD	NI	Total
29 (CDU) 5 (CSU)	27 (SPD)	7 (AfD) 1 (Familie)	3 (FDP) 1 (FW)	7 (Linke) 1 (Tierschutz)	11 (B’90/Grüne) 1 (Piraten) 1 (ÖDP)		1 (NPD) 1 (Partei)	96

References

1. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2014-results/en/country-results-de-2014.html
2. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/verfassungsrichter-kippen-dreiprozenthuerde-fuer-europawahl-a-955704.html