Elections '79 7 -lOJune
110m voters elect 410 MEPs to European Parliament Voting figures and winners0
Directorate-General for Information and Public Relations Publications Division ·,·,., Ever.y effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the data in this publication but no guarantee can be givea that the figures or other entries will be completely consistent with ':.he final details published by the authorities in each of the Member States in every case.
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105 10 1'i\ o I 42 I 6 I 4_1_~-4----_2_- ---10 --·--- 6.861. 208 6.508.481 c (') 6,2% 35~~~~~ L j -r- 48,4% I) 63 ---+---3+-- ___ -----+ I -----+-~0- 14.940.043 145.804 81.933 112.1841 4.151.261 ---+10.343.10 (8.%1) 97.196 ~ COM 13,5% 2,7% 4,7% o. 4% 20, 6% 29, 6"' 5,01:, 1, 7% -~ L..· 44 0 1 0 19 24 0 0 t..~·J ~- t---~-- ~ 11.621.907 885.212 252.989 ~~~~~~~+-002 .1:~·;r------r~~64. 64 9~~~~:- -~. 690~:00 (' L 10,5% 16,3% 14,5%1 • 6,0% (19,8%) 6,2° 16,4% 1 12,6% '-l 41 ~ <." 11___ 1 _4t--- 3 I 4 I -~---+--sl 2 -i 4 +--- ~-- 3.845.116 100.681 3.279.9851 464.450 OEP 3, 5% 5,8% 16,3% 34,7%
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A 6.116. 281 738.981 365.885 167.730 3.845.388 511.590 u 5,5% 13,6% 21,(J)I, 12,5% • 10,~ 9, 0".-' t 24 3 5 2 9 2 r 5.113.106 344.227 176.947 1.002.536 2.428.188 69.342 306.604 (15.586) 403.134 3 66.542 e 4, 6% 6,3% 10,1% 3, 6% 12,(J)I, 5,2% 0,9% 9,1% 6,9% 2,7% s 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total b.l0.826.262 5.442.8671 1.744.853l27.863.757l20.174.768)1.339.072 134.977.2891 171.272 5.666.222 ~3.446.162
Par1ement Europeen- Direction Generale de 1'Information et des Relations Publiques -Division des Publications Country: BELGIUM EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS General Election December 1978 European Elections Votes % , Seats Votes % Seats
Parties Turnnut 5, 517,306 J j_208 I· Turnout ~,442,867 J 91.4 1 24 1
Christian Peoples Party (Flemish) 1,451,733 27.10 57 1,607,927 29.5 I 7
Christian Peoples Party (Walloon) 488,182 9.11 25 445,940 8.1 I 3
Soci<';.l .i.st Party' (Walloon) 523,740 11.64 32 698,892 12.8 I 3
Rocialist Party (Flemish) 580,521 12.70 26 575,886 10.5 4 I -.t:: Liberal (Flemish) 512,355 9.4 I 2 582,426 10.87 37 J,ibcral (\'fa11oon) 372,857 6.8 I 2 f :.l2 Rc-,:.:sernb1ernent Wa11on 414,412 7.6 2
lnemish !'eop1es Union 383,455 7.15 14 324,569 5.9 1
:~:co1vgists 185,821 3.42
('olmnunist 145,804 2.62
c ·· .'2rs 984,792 Ul.3811i 62,331 I 1.1 F:_..: ·;'J:'OR.A'}'l:; 6, ::>C:Q, 584. -.roTES CM.lT f'·. 212,42.j VALID VO'rL~ '·4+· INVl\LID VOTES : 769,616 (14.14rlo) Country: DENMARK EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS General Election February 1977 European Elections Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Parties Turnout 3,106,297 88.9 158 Turnout 1,744,853 47.0 I· 16
Electorate: 3.73 million 100,0
Social Democrats 1.150.355 37,0 65 382.721 21.9 3
Social Liberals 113.330 3,6 56.945 3.3
Conservatives 263.262 8,5 15 244.975 14.0 2
Retsforbundet (Single tax party) 102.149 3,3 59.254 3.4 U1
Social Peoples' Party 120.357 3,9 7 81.933 4.7 1
Centre Democracy 200.347 6,4 11 107.752 6.2 1
Communists 114.022 3,7 7
Anti-Market Party 365.885 21.0 4
Christian Peoples' Party 106.082 3,4 6 30.970 1.8
Liberals 371.728 12,0 21 252.989 14.5 3
Left Socialists 83.667 2,7 60.748 3.5
Progress Party 453.792 14,6 26 100.681 5.8 1
Others(including Atassut) 27.206 0,9 3,901 Siumut in Greenland 4. 4,763 1
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Countru• EUROPEAN 'S General Election March 1978 European Elections Votes % Seats .v:ate:.a % Seats
Turnout ?0 17~ 135 Partie& Turnout 28,581,062 81.1
Electorate 35 049 163
4,756,774 23.57122 Socialists and Radicals of the Left 7,054,066
20.57119 French Communist Party 5,870,340 4,151,261
5,558,560 27.55 I 25 UDF (Simone Veil) 6.! 122,180 3,279,985 16.25 I 15 (l'\ Rally for the Republic 6,451,454 DIFE (Jacques Ch~rac) 886,819 4.39 Ecologists 652,100
Jean-Jacques Servan Schreiber 372,692 281,097 Poujade
265,074 1. 31 Europec.tn Right 6.31 793,276 1,276,733 Others
Candidates suppo.rU.ng Pn::sident 684, SL'·
Extreme Left 952,661
I unF Union fo·· T"•:L;,nch Demo~Tacy DIFE DefetY.. ·· ::f t-"d' intc,~ests of jFranC(~ in Europe i Country: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY EUROPEAN .ELECTION RESULTS General Election 1976 . European Elections Votes % Seats Votes % Seat 81 Parties I Turnout 38,165,753 .90. 7 Turnout 28,119,532 1 65.91 28.119.532 Electorate : 42 701) 9F·
CDU 14.367.302 38,0 10.890.955 39,1 I 34 csu 4.027.499 --10,6 2.816.758 --10,1 - 8 CDU/CSU 18.394.801 48,6 13.707.713 49,2 42
SPD 16.099.019 42,6 11.377.818 40,8 35 I ~
FDP 2.995.085 7,9 1.663. 506 6,0 4
0,4 DKP 118.581 0,3 112.184 ·: Die Grlinen (ecologists) - - 893.510 3,2
Others 215.014 0,6 109.026 0,4 RESULTS Countr : IRELAND EUROPEAN ELECTION General Election June 1977 European Elections Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Turnout 1,392,285 63.61 15 Parties I Turnout 1,630,236 148
Electorate 2-188 798
49.8 84 464,450 34 68 5 Fianna Fail 811,615
30.0 43 4 Fine Gael 488,767 44·~ E52 33 1 3
11.4 17 193,898 14 481 4 _Labour Party 186,410
7.1 4 J.89 499 114 1s\ 2 Independent 116,235 I a:
1.7 Sinn Fein 27,209 - 4' 94'> 3 28
Others 3 631) I) 2-. ·- Country: _ITALY EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS General Election European Elections
Votes % Seiits Votes % Seats 81 Parties Turnout 36.501.859 630 Turnout 34,924,050 85.5
Electorate 42.2 milli~n
!Christian Democrats 14.007.59!4 36, 5 I 262 12,752,602 36,5 29
Italian Communist Party 11.107.883 30,4 I - 201 10,343,101 29,6 24
Italian Socialist Party 3.586.256 9,8 I 62 3,857,436 11,0 9
.Italian Social Movement 1. 924.251 5, 3 I. 30 1•907,452 5,4 4
1.0 Italian Social Democratic Party 1.403.873 3,8 20 1,511,320 4,3 4
Radical Party 1.259.362 3,4 18 1,282,128 3,7 3
Italian Republican Party 1.106. 766 3,0 16 895,083 2,6 2
Italian Liberal Party 708.022 1,9 9 1, 269, 5.6D 3,6 3
Proletarian Party 501.431 1,4 6 404.794 1,1 1
Proletarian Democracy 250,414 0,7 1
National Democratic Party 228.340 0,6 141,350 0,4
South Tyrol Peoples' Party 196,189 0,6 1
Aosta Valley Union 33 ;2-50 O,J; 1 165,254 0,5
Others 634.831 1,8 5
~~) ELECTION RESULTS Countrv: NETHERLANDS EUROPEAN May 1977 European Elections General Election .. Seats Votes % Seats Votes --- % ,.-- 8,313,592 87.53 142 Turnout 5,666,222 57.82 _£L Parties Turnout - -· --· ~--···
Elector<.>te C).,8mi 1_ 1 i.on 53 1,721,949 30.39 9 Labour 2,810,636 33.81 2,017,692 35.61 10 Christian Dernoc:t:·ats 2,653,416 31.91 49 914,661 16.4 4 I,iberals 1,492,188 17.95 28 2 511,590 9.03 2 Independents 143,420 l. 73 500,330 8.83 - Ot.:hers 762,193 9.17 10 ..
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i ·country: UNITED KINGDOM EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS
General Election May 1979 Europea~ Elections Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Parties Turnout 30,718,225 76.0 619 Turnout 13,459,904 I ':!? ll I 81 I
E1.ect.--. r>te ll1 55'1 460 13,697,753 43.9 339 6,508,481 50.6 60 If Conservat1ve Party 33.0 17 Labour Party 11,509,524 36.9 263 4,253,210
Liberal Party 4,313,931 13.8 11 1,690,600 13.1 1 Scottish National Party 504,259 1.6 2 247,836 1.9
~:a tional :2ront 191,267 i 0.6 83,399 0.6 Plaid Cymru 2 t 90,318 0.7 Others 2
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l ~official Unionist Party 170,686 1 T.J1ster Democratic Party 61,625 0.2 3
Ulster Unionist Party 36,989 0.1 1
United Ulster Unionist Party 29,249 0.1 1
Socia 1 Democratic & Labour: Party 16,480 0.05 1 140,622 1
In No~thern Ireland, the elect0r~te iP 1 027 096 ,f vh0m 5861060 ,,ted •·'t~ 5,? ?Jq · ~te~ being VP1'd . BELGIAN MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (Votes cast 5,284,463 : Seats 24)
SOCIAL CHRISTIAN PARTY (3 seats) CHRISTIAN PEOPLES' PARTY ( seats) Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb Leo Tindemans * Victor Michel Fernand Herman ~:~~e~e v;:~~:~=~~er ~ Jaak Henckens Lambert Croux REFORM AND FREEDOM PARTY (2 seats) Joannes Verroken Jean Rey Joris Verhaegen Andre Damseaux
SOCIALIST PARTY (4 seats) BELGIAN SOCIALIST PARTY (3 seats) Ernest Glinne ~ Karel Van Miert Anne-Marie Lizin-Vanderspeeten Marcel Colla Lucien Radoux ~ * - ·· Willy Vernimmen Fernand Delmotte PARTY FOR FREEDOM AND. PROGRESS DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF FRENCH-SPEAKING ( 2 seats) .. BELGIANS (2 seats) Willy De Clercq Antoinette Spaak Herman Vanderpoorten Paul-Henry Gendebien PEOPLES' UNION (1 seat) Maurits Coppieters
LUXEMBOURG MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
(Votes cast 974,476: Seats 6)
CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST PEOPLES' PARTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY (3 seats) (2 seats) Pierre Werner Gaston Thorn "' Jacques Santer II Colette Flesch • Fernand Boden
LUXEMBOURG SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY (1 seat) Votes Cast BELGIUM Victor Abens Social Christian ?arty 445,940 Reform & Freedom Party 372,857 .So.cialist Party 575,886 Votes Cast - LUXEY...BOURG De'mocratic Front of Christian Socialist ?rench-speaking Belgians .414,412 Peoples' Party 351,942 Luxembourg Socialist Christian Peoples' Party Labour Party 211,097 1,607,927 Democratic Party 274,345 Belgian Socialist Party 698,892 Party for Freedom & Progress 512,355 Peoples' Union 324,569 ~ Former Member of the European Parliament - 13 - FRENCH MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
(Electorate 35,241,753: Votes cast 20,174,565: Turnout 61.3%: Seats 81)
UNION FOR FRANCE IN EUROPE (25 seats) FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY (19 seats) Simone Veil Jean Lecanuet Georges Marchais Jean Lecanuet Jacqueline Hoffman Edgar Faure Gustave Ansart Christiane Scrivener Paul Verges Pierre Pflimlin E~~anuel Maffre-Bauge Francisque Collomb Rene Piquet Pierre Baudis Pierre Pranchere Michel Debatisse Felix Damette Francis Combe Danielle Demarch Robert Delorozoy Maxime Gremetz Corentin Calvez Georges Fzischmann Michel Poniatowski Robert Chambeiron Andre Rossi Sylvie Leroux Andre Diligent Maurice Martin Louise Moreau Francis lflurtz Henri Caillavet Louis Baillot Victor Sable Henriette Poirier Charles Delatte Guy Fernandez Yves Galland Jacques Denis Jean Seitlinger Georges Donnez Marie-Jane Pruvot DEFENCE OF THE INTERESTS OF FRANCE Maurice-Rene Simonnet IN EUROPE (15 seats) Jean-Francais Pintat Jacques Chirac Simone Ma~tin Michel Debre Pierre Messmer Claude Labbe SOCIALISTS AND RApiCALS OF THE LEFT ( 22 seats) ·Louise Weiss Gustave Deleau Francois Mitterrand Marie-Madeleine Dienesch Pier~e Mauroy Maurice Druon Edity Cresson Hubert Buchou Gilles Marti:-.et Nicole Chouraqui-Dahan Didier Motchane Christian de la Malene Maurice I<'aure Christian Poncelet Gerard Jaquet Alain Gillot Georges Sutra de Germa Eugene Remilly Marie-Claude Vayssade Vincent Ansquer Francoise Gaspard Georges Sarre Charles-Emile Loo Jean Oehler Charles Josselin Daniel Persheron Votes Cast Gisele Charzat Claude Estier Union for France in Yvette Roudy Europe 5,558,560 Jacques Moreau Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg SocialJsts and Radicals Jacques Delors of th~'ieft 4,756,774 Yvette Fuillet French Communist Party 4, 151, 261
Defence of the inter ests of France in Europe 3,279,985
- 14 - GERMAN MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (Votes cast 28,119,532: Seats 81)
§OCIAL DEMOCRA~S (35 seats) CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS (34 seats) Wil.ly BranC.t Kai-UWe von Hassel Heinz Oskar Vetter Eri~ Blumenfeld~ Bruno Friedrich 9£ Hans Edgaz crahli* ,....,." Beat Weber D:o:- ::?hilipp von Bismarck • Heinz :
Votes Cast Social Democrats 11,377,818 Christian Democrats 10,890,955
Ch~istian Socialists 2,816,758 Liberals 1,663,506
~Former Member of the European Parliament - 15 - IRISH MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (Electorate 2,188,798: Votes cast 1,392,285: Turnout 63.5%: Seats 15)
LABOUR FlANNA !!'AIL
Eileen Desr.lond Jeremiah Cronin Liam ! FINE GAEL INDEPENDENT Mark A. Clinton J"ohn C"oe McCartin Neil T. Blaney Richie Ryan· ~ Thomas Joseph Maher Thomas Gerard O'Donnell Votes Cast Fianna F&il 464,450 Fine Gael 443,652 Labc..ur 193,898 Independent 189,499 Sinn Fein 43,943 Others 3,630 - 16 - ITALIAN MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (Votes cast 34,924,050: Seats 81) CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS (29 seats) SOCIALISTS (9 seats) Benigno Zaccagnini Bettina Craxi Alfredo Diana Mario Dido' Angelo Narducci Jir i Pelikan Maria Luisa CassanmagnagoN Carlo Ripa de Meana Mario Pedini .._ Gaetano Arfe' Silvio Lega Mario Zagar i Jl. Luigi Macario Giorgio Ruffolo Giovanni Giavazzi Pietro Lezzi~ Gustavo Selva Vincenzo Gatto Flaminio Piccoli Mariano Rumor ITALIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT (4 seats) Giovanni Bersani - Arnalda Coleselli Giorgio Almirante, Nino Tripoldi Paola Gaiotti Pino Romualdi "' Guido Gonella Antonino Giuseppe Buttafuoco Mario Sassano Pietro Adonnino SOCIAL DEMOCRATS (4 seats) Giovanni Barbagli Sergio Romano Ercini Mauro Ferri Emilio Colombo i'tf. Flavio Orlandi Daria Antoniozzi Ruggero Puletti Roberto Costanzo Antonio Cariglia Paolo Barbi Ortensio Zecchino RADICAL PARTY ( 3 seats) Giovanni Travaglini Alberto Ghergo Marco Pannella, Leonardo Sciascia, Salvatore Lima Emma Bonino Vincenzo Giummarra ITALIAN REPUBLICAN PA~TY (2 seats) Stefano Giosue Ligios~ Susanna Agnelli Bruno Visentini ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (24 seats) Gian Carlo Pajetta LIBERALS (3 seats) Angelo Carossino Altiero Spinelli~Aldo Bonaccini Enzo Bettiza f1l Manlio Cecovini Bruno Ferrero Sergio Pininfarina Sergio Segre, Guido carandini Tullia Carrettoni Romagnoli PROLETARIAN DEMOCRACY (DP) (1 seat) Vera Squarcialupilf Nilde Iotti • Mario Capanna Guido Fanti Domenico Ceravolo DEMOCRATIC. PARTY OF PROLETARIAN Maria Fabrizia Baduel~ ~ (PDUP) (1 seat) Anselmo Gauthier Enrico Berlinguer Luciana Castellina Carlo Alberto Galluzzi~ ·carla Barbarella Maria Luisa Cinciari Giorgio Amendola Jf. Votes Cast Giovanni Papapietro Ghristian Democrats 12,752,602 Felice Ippolito Communist Party 10,343,101 Francescopaolo D'Angelosante Liberals 1,269,560 Pancrazio Antonino De Pasquale South Tyrol Peoples' Umberto Cardia ' Party 196,189 Socialists 3,857,436 SOUTH TYROL PEOPLES' PARTY (1 seat) Italian Social Movement 1,907,452 Joachim Dalsass Social Democrats 1,511,320 Radical Party 1,282,728 ; former Members of the Republican Party 895,083 European Parliament DP 250,414 PDUP 404,794 - 17 - NETHERLANDS MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (Votes cast 5,666,222: Seats 25) LABOUR (9 seats) CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS (10 seats) Anne Vondeling B. Beumer len van den Heuvel W.J. Vergeer· ~ Piet Dankert:- if T. Tolman· JJ;- Johan van Minnen E.C.A.M. Boot -~ Wim Albers - ,.. H.A.C.M. Notenboom Annie Krouwel-Vlam ~ Sj. Jonker Bob Cohen F.G. van der Gun '* Hemme Muntingh J .J .M. Penders Eisso Woltjer J.R.H. May-Weggen J.L. Janssen van Raay LIBERALS (4 seats) INDEPENDENTS (2 seats) C • Berkhouwer - 11' H.R. Nord A. de Goede H.J. Louwes Mevr. S. Dekker A. Geurtsen *' DANISH MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (Votes cast 1,744,853: Seats 16) SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (3 seats) SOCIALIST PEOPLES' PARTY (1 seat) Kjeld Olesen Bodil Boserup Mette Groes Eva Gredal POPULAR MOVEMENT AGAINST THE EEC (4 seats) CONSERVATIVE PEOPLES' PARTY (2 seats) Else Hammerich Poul M.e$ller J¢rgen B¢gh Kent Kirk Sven Skovmand Jens Peter Bonde LIBERALS (3 seats) CENTRE DEMOCRACY (1 seat) Tove Nielsen Niels J¢rgen Haagerup Erhard Jacobsen~ J¢rgen Br¢ndlund Nielsen~ PROGRESS PARTY (1 seat) SIUMUT (1 seat) (Greenland) Kai Nyborg1f Finn Lynge Votes Cast NETHERLANDS Votes Cast - Denmark Labour 1,721,949 Social Democracy 382,721 Christian Democrats 2,017,692 Conservative Peoples' Liberals 914,661 Party 244,975 Independents 511, 590 Liberals 252,989 Socialist Peoples' Party 81,933 Popular Movement Against the EEC 365,885 •former Members of the Centre Democracy 107,752 European Parliament Progress Party 100,681 Siumut 4,763 Atassut 3,901 - 18 - UNITED KINGDOM MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (81 seats: 13,446,083 votes cast) CONSERVATIVE (60 seats) LABOUR (17 seats) Neil Balfour Gordon Adam Robert Battersby Richard Balfe Peter Beazley ~ Roland Boyes Lord Bethell Janey Buchan Beata B·rooks Richard Caborn Sir Fred catherwood Barbara Castle Richard Cottrell Ken Collins David Curry Derek Enright Ian Dalziel Michael Gallagher John de Courcy Ling Winston James Griffiths Basil de Ferranti Brian Key The Marquess of Douro Alf Lomas William Newton Dunn Thomas Megahy The Baroness Elles .if Joyce Quin Adam Ferguson Ann Clwyd Roberts Norvella Forster Alan Rogers Eric Forth Barry Seal Lord Harmar-Nicholls David Harris Gloria Hooper William Hopper SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY (1 seat) Brian Hord Paul Howell Winifred Ewing H Alisdair Hutton Christopher Jackson Robert Jackson Stanley Johnson Edward Kellett-Bowman NORTHERN IRELAND Elaine Kellett-Bowman John Marshall SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR Robert Moreland ~ (1 seat) James Moorhouse Sir David Nicholson John Hume Tom Normanton ~ Lord O'Hagan ~ Ben Patterson OFFICIAL ULSTER UNIONIST Andrew Pearce John Taylor (1 seat) Sir Henry Plumb Derek Prag Peter N Price DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY(l seat) Dr Christopher Prout James Provan Rev Ian Paisley John Purvis Shelagh Roberts James Scott-Hopkins * Madron Seligman Dr Alexander Sherlock Richard Simmonds Anthony Simpson VOTES CAST Tom Spencer Conservative 6,508,481 James Spicer * Sir John Stewar-Clark Bt ·,,Labour 4,253,210 John M Taylor SNP 247,836 Fred Tuckman Amedee Turner QC . SDLP 160,072 Alan Tyrrell QC 153,466 Sir Peter Vanneck ouu Sir Fred Warner DUP 170,680 Michael Welsh Sir Brandon Rhys Williams *Former Member. of the European Parliament - 19 -