Germany European Parliament election 2019 — Results
Election day: May 26, 2019
- CDU/CSU: 28.86%
- Grüne: 20.53%
- SPD: 15.82%
- AfD: 10.98%
- Die Linke: 5.50%
- FDP: 5.42%
- Freie Wähler: 2.16%
- Others: 10.73%
Turnout: 61.38%
About this election
The electoral system
European elections in Germany use pure proportional representation with closed national or state lists. Uniquely, Germany has no electoral threshold for European elections: the Federal Constitutional Court struck down first a 5% and then a 3% threshold as unconstitutional, so even very small parties can win a seat with well under 1% of the vote. That is why the German delegation includes MEPs from a long tail of minor parties — satirical, single-issue and regional — alongside the major forces. The 96 seats are allocated in strict proportion to each party's national vote.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 8.33 points separated CDU/CSU from Grüne — 3,116,971 votes.
- The top two shared 49.39% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for CDU/CSU ranged from 40.71% in Bayern to 15.22% in Berlin — a spread of 25.49 points across 16 regions, and it led in 10 of 16.
- Turnout of 61.38% is the lowest of the 2 European Parliament elections covered here since 2019.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts