2014 European Parliament election in Germany

2014 European Parliament election in Germany

25 May 2014
All 96 German seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	48.14% ( 4.87 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– CDU/CSU David McAllister 35.4% 34 −8 SPD Martin Schulz 27.3% 27 +4 Greens Rebecca Harms 10.7% 11 −3 Left Gabi Zimmer 7.4% 7 −1 AfD Bernd Lucke 7.1% 7 New FDP Alexander Graf Lambsdorff 3.4% 3 −9 FW Ulrike Müller 1.5% 1 +1 Pirates Felix Reda 1.4% 1 +1 Tierschutzpartei Stefan Eck 1.2% 1 +1 NPD Udo Voigt 1.0% 1 +1 Familie Arne Gericke 0.7% 1 +1 ÖDP Klaus Buchner 0.6% 1 +1 PARTEI Martin Sonneborn 0.6% 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Winning party by district and independent city

The 2014 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 25 May 2014. 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. 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 Webster/Sainte-Laguë 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 April 2014	infratest dimap	39	27	9	4	8	6	7
25 April 2014	INSA	36	28	11	4	9	7	5
11 April 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	39	27	11	3	8	6	6
3 April 2014	infratest dimap	40	28	9	3	7	6	7
28 March 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	39	26	12	3	8	6	6
14 March 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	38	26	11	4	8	6	7
9 March 2014	INSA	38	26	9.5	3	8.5	7.5	–
6 March 2014	Infratest	40	26	11	4	7	5	7
21 February 2014	Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	40	24	12	4	8	6	6
14 February 2014	INSA	39	25	10	3	10	8	5
6 February 2014	Infratest	38	29	10	4	8	6	5
26 January 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 June 2009	Election Results	37.9	20.8	12.1	11.0	7.5	—	9.8

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Christian Democratic Union	8,812,653	30.02	29	–5
	Social Democratic Party	8,003,628	27.26	27	+4
	Alliance '90/The Greens	3,139,274	10.69	11	–3
	The Left	2,168,455	7.39	7	–1
	Alternative for Germany	2,070,014	7.05	7	New
	Christian Social Union	1,567,448	5.34	5	–3
	Free Democratic Party	986,841	3.36	3	–9
	Free Voters	428,800	1.46	1	+1
	Pirate Party Germany	425,044	1.45	1	+1
	Human Environment Animal Protection	366,598	1.25	1	+1
	National Democratic Party	301,139	1.03	1	+1
	Family Party	202,803	0.69	1	+1
	Ecological Democratic Party	185,244	0.63	1	+1
	Die PARTEI	184,709	0.63	1	+1
	The Republicans	109,757	0.37	0	0
	From now on... Democracy by Referendum	88,535	0.30	0	0
	Bavaria Party	62,438	0.21	0	0
	Party of Bible-abiding Christians	55,336	0.19	0	0
	Pro NRW	52,649	0.18	0	New
	Party for Labour, Environment and Family	50,953	0.17	0	0
	Christian Centre	30,136	0.10	0	0
	German Communist Party	25,147	0.09	0	0
	Marxist–Leninist Party	18,198	0.06	0	New
	Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität	10,369	0.04	0	0
	Party for Social Equality	8,924	0.03	0	0
Total		29,355,092	100.00	96	–3
Valid votes		29,355,092	98.36
Invalid/blank votes		488,706	1.64
Total votes		29,843,798	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		61,998,824	48.14
Source: Bundeswahlleiter

Results by state

Results for each party by state.

State	Union	SPD	Grüne	Linke	AfD	FDP	Others
Baden-Württemberg	39.3	23.0	13.2	3.6	7.9	4.1	8.9
Bavaria	40.5	20.1	12.1	2.9	8.1	3.1	13.3
Berlin	20.0	24.0	19.1	16.2	7.9	2.8	10.0
Brandenburg (formerly part of East Germany)	25.0	26.9	6.1	19.7	8.5	2.1	11.7
Bremen	22.4	34.4	17.6	9.6	5.8	3.3	7.1
Hamburg	24.6	33.8	17.2	8.6	6.0	3.7	6.1
Hesse	30.6	30.3	12.9	5.6	9.1	4.1	7.3
Lower Saxony	39.4	32.5	10.9	4.0	5.4	2.5	5.3
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (formerly part of East Germany)	34.6	21.2	5.1	19.6	7.0	1.9	10.6
North Rhine-Westphalia	35.6	33.7	10.1	4.7	5.4	4.0	6.5
Rhineland-Palatinate	38.4	30.7	8.1	3.7	6.7	3.7	8.7
Saarland	34.9	34.4	6.0	6.6	6.8	2.2	9.0
Saxony (formerly part of East Germany)	34.5	15.6	6.0	18.3	10.1	2.6	12.9
Saxony-Anhalt (formerly part of East Germany)	30.7	21.7	4.8	21.8	6.3	2.6	12.0
Schleswig-Holstein	34.4	31.9	12.4	4.5	6.8	3.8	6.2
Thuringia (formerly part of East Germany)	31.8	18.4	5.0	22.5	7.4	2.1	12.8

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

Elected MEPs

Main article: List of members of the European Parliament for Germany, 2014–2019