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REVIEW OF EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL ELECTION RESULTS UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 2018 A Public Opinion Monitoring Publication REVIEW OF EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL ELECTION RESULTS UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 2018 Directorate-General for Communication Public Opinion Monitoring Unit September 2018 - PE 625.195 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL 1 1. COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 5 DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS EE2019 6 OVERVIEW 1979 - 2014 7 COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LAST UPDATE (10/09/2018) 8 CONSTITUTIVE SESSION (01/07/2014) 9 PROPORTION OF WOMEN AND MEN PROPORTION - LAST UPDATE 10 PROPORTIONS IN POLITICAL GROUPS - LAST UPDATE 11 PROPORTION OF WOMEN IN POLITICAL GROUPS - SINCE 1979 12 2. NUMBER OF NATIONAL PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 13 3. TURNOUT: EE2014 15 TURNOUT IN THE LAST EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS 16 TURNOUT IN THE EE2014 18 TURNOUT COMPARISON: 2009 (2013) - 2014 19 TURNOUT IN THE EE2014 - BREAKDOWN BY GENDER 20 TURNOUT IN THE EE2014 - BREAKDOWN BY AGE 21 TURNOUT OVERVIEW SINCE 1979 22 TURNOUT OVERVIEW SINCE 1979 - BY MEMBER STATE 23 4. NATIONAL RESULTS BY MEMBER STATE 27-301 GOVERNMENTS AND OPPOSITION IN MEMBER STATES 28 COMPOSITION OF THE EP: 2014 AND LATEST UPDATE POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE EP MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT - BY MEMBER STATE EE2014 TOTAL RESULTS EE2014 ELECTORAL LISTS - BY MEMBER STATE RESULTS OF TWO LAST NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND THE EE 2014 DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SOURCES EDITORIAL First published in November 2014, the Review of European and National Elections offers a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview on the composition of the European Parliament, national elections in all EU Member States as well as a historical overview on the now nearly forty years of direct elections to the European Parliament since 1979. The current edition, published in September 2018, is the fifth update since the May 2014 European elections, including and building up on the previous updates from July 2015, February 2016, July 2016 and January 2017. The wealth of data assembled in this Review makes it an invaluable source of information and indeed a reference on the composition and development of the European Parliament and its political groups. HOW THE COMPOSITION OF THE EP HAS CHANGED The present edition documents all changes in the composition of the European Parliament since the 2014 European elections. Of note is the creation of a new political group, Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), on 15 June 2015, as well as the replacement of 99 MEPs who had left the European Parliament since the last European elections. The Review also tracks and documents the changing of political groups by 51 Members since November 2014. While at the constitutive session on 1 July 2014, the total number of MEPs included 277 women (36.88%), this figure slightly changed until 10 September 2018 to 273 female Members (36.40%). The European Parliament is composed, as of 10th September 2018, of 750 Members: 218 EPP, 189 S&D, 73 ECR, 68 ALDE, 52 GUE/NGL, 51 Greens/EFA, 43 EFDD, 35 ENF and 21 Non-Attached Members. HOW THE NUMBER OF NATIONAL PARTIES IN THE EP HAS CHANGED At the constitutive session of July 2014, the 751 MEPs were elected on the lists of 203 parties. Political developments in the Member States have also resulted in a change in the number of political parties represented by MEPs in the European Parliament. Today, there are 28 more parties represented in the European Parliament compared to the 2014 European elections, with the total number of political parties represented rising to 212: BG: ECR: PB, Reload Bulgaria Party (former BWC), represented since 4 April 2017 DE: ECR: L-CR, Liberal-Konservative Reformer (former AfD, then called ALFA), founded on 19 July 2015 and represented since 14 December 2016 ENF: BP, Die blaue Partei (former AfD), founded on 17 September 2017 and in the EP since 14 November 2017 EL: GUE/NGL: LE, Λαϊκή Ενότητα/Popular Unity (former SYRIZA), founded on 21 August 2015, represented since 2 September 2015 ECR: Greece The Alternative Road (former ANEL), represented in the EP since 5 April 2017 NA: PAT.RI.E., Patriotic Radical Union, represented in the EP since 26 June 2018 by a former XA MEP 1 ES: Greens/EFA: EQUO, founded on 4 June 2011, represented since 11 October 2016 ALDE: PDeCAT, Partit Demòcrata Europeu i Català (former CDC), founded on 10 July 2016, represented in the EP since 10 May 2017 Greens/EFA: BNG, Bloque Nacionalista Galego, represented in the EP from 28 February 2018 FR: ALDE: GC, Génération Citoyens (former NC and UDI), founded on 17 July 2015, represented since 2 September 2015 EFDD: LFL, Les Français Libres (former FN), represented since from 13 January 2016 EPP: AGIR, La droite constructive (former LR), established on 26 November 2017, represented since 14 December 2017 S&D: GS, Génération.s, le mouvement (former PS), created on 1 July 2017, represented since 20 February 2018 S&D: LRG, Les radicaux de Gauche (former PRG), founded on 14 December 2017, represented in the EP since 8 February 2018 EFDD: LP, Les Patriotes (former FN), founded on 29 September 2017 and represented since 4 October 2017 ALDE: MR, Mouvement Radical (former PR), represented since 26 February 2018 ALDE: MR-SL, Mouvement Radical Social-Libéral (former PR-UDI), represented since 3 April 2018 EFDD: DLF, Debout la France (former FN), founded on 23 November 2008 and in the EP from 6 June 2018 HR: ECR: HKS, Hrvatska Konzervativna Stranka (former HSP AS), founded on 20 November 2014, represented since 27 January 2015 ALDE: GLAS, Građansko-liberalni savez (former HNS), represented in the EP since 9 July 2017 IT: ECR: CR, Conservatori e Riformisti (former FI), founded on 16 July 2015, represented since 7 December 2015 EPP: AP, Alternativa Popolare (former NC), founded on 18 March 2017 and represented since 16 May 2017 S&D: Arti1-MDP, Articolo 1 – Movimento Democratico e Progressista, represented in the EP since 30 March 2017 S&D: SI, Sinistra Italiana, established on 19 February 2017, and represented in the EP since 16 May 2018 PL: EFDD: Wolność/KORWIN (former KNP), founded on 22 January 2016 and represented since 29 January 2016 PT: ALDE: PDR, Partido Democrático Republicano (former MPT), founded on 5 October 2014, represented since 27 October 2015 RO: S&D: PPU-SL, Humanist Power Party - Social Liberal (former PC), founded on 10 June 2015 and represented since 9 July 2015 ALDE: ALDE Party, founded on 19 June 2015 and represented in the EP since 30 August 2018 2 Five parties changed name: FR: EPP: UMP was renamed LR (Les Républicains) on 30 May 2015 (ENF) FN changed name to RN (Rassemblement national) on 1 June 2018 EE: EPP: IRL changed name to I (Isamaa) on 3 June 2018 PL: EFDD: KORWIN took the name Wolność from 8 October 2016 SE: ALDE: Folkpartiet Liberalerna (FP) changed the name to L (Liberalerna) on 22 November 2015 Twenty-three parties ceased to be represented in the European Parliament in the same period: BG : BWC (Bulgaria without Censorship) DE: Tierschutzpartei, Familie, ALFA (Allianz für Fortschritt und Aufbruch) IE: FF (Fianna Fáil) EL: ANEL (Independent Greeks) ES: UDC (Unió Democràtica de Catalunya), COMPROMIS, NECat (Nova Esquerra Catalana), CDC (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya), EH BILDU and ANOVA/AGE FR: NC (Nous Citoyens), PRG (Parti radical de gauche) HR: HSP AS (Hrvatska stranka prava dr. Ante Starčević), ORAH (Odrzivi razvoj hrvatske), HNS (Hrvatska narodna stranka - liberalni demokrati) and HSS (Hrvatska seljačka stranka) RO: PC (Conservative party), PDL (Partidul Democrat Liberal), UNPR (National Union for the Progress of Romania) and PMP (Partidul Mişcarea Populară) SK: SKDU-DS (Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana) COMPARATIVE RESULTS PER COUNTRY The current update also covers some of the elections held in the Member States since the Constituent session on 1 July 2014. In the EU, there have been: - thirty-three general elections BG (two elections), CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL (two elections), ES (two elections), FR, HR (two elections), IT, CY, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI (two elections), SK, FI, SE (two elections) and UK (two elections); - twelve presidential elections by direct universal suffrage (BG, CZ, FR, HR, CY, AT (two elections), PL, PT, RO, SI, FI). In the months preceding the European elections 2019, there will be other important elections. Four legislative elections in LV (6 October 2018), LU (14 October 2018), EE (14 March 2018), FI (14 April 2019). In BE, the next legislative elections will be held at the same time as the European elections on 26 May 2019. There will also be three direct presidential elections, in IE (26 October 2018), SK (9 March 2019) and in LT (May 2019). 3 For each Member State, the available data is presented in tables in the following structure: Results of the 2014 European elections for the parties represented in the EP and situation as updated until 10 September 2018; Names and acronyms of the parties represented in the EP during this time; Names of Members, their eventual replacements and change of political/group affiliation; Overall results of all candidate lists in the 2014 European elections; Names and acronyms of all these candidate lists; Results of the last two legislative elections and the 2014 European elections; Sources NB: In the fourteen countries where presidential elections are held by direct universal suffrage (BG, CZ, IE, FR, HR, CY, LT, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI), the results are presented before the sources. 4 COMPOSITION 1 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS IN THE EP EE2019 OVERVIEW 1979 - 2014 COMPOSITION OF THE EP LAST UPDATE (10/09/2018) CONSTITUTIVE SESSION (01/07/2014) PROPORTION OF WOMEN AND MEN IN THE EP PROPORTION - LAST UPDATE PROPORTIONS IN POLITICAL GROUPS - LAST UPDATE PROPORTION OF WOMEN IN POLITICAL GROUPS - SINCE 1979 5 DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS EE2019 N.B.