Election Turnout European Parliament

Since then voter turnout for the five yearly election has progressively.

Election turnout european parliament. After seeing turnout for the 2019 european elections rise meps have finalised political groups and will decide on the next european commission president. Turnout this time more than 50 of eu citizens eligible to vote took part in the elections the highest turnout in 20 years and the first time since the first direct elections in 1979 that turnout has increased. In 2009 the overall turnout was at 43 down from 45 5 in 2004.

Turnout averages just 29 percent in the countries that joined the eu since 2004. Stay up to date with who is ahead in the polls in each country and on what europe thinks and why. It was good geopolitics but a disaster for european election turnout.

In britain the turnout was just 34 3 down from 38 in 2004. Turnout has constantly fallen in every eu election since 1979. Despite falling below 50 since 1999 turnout is not yet as low as that of the us midterm elections which usually falls below 40.

One of the most notable aspects of the 2019 european election was the level of voter turnout which soared to a 20 year high. The highest turnout occurred in the first set of. Voter turnout navigate this interactive chart to.

In 1979 at the first direct election for representatives to the european parliament just 38 percent of voters stayed away. In 2019 over 50 percent of eu citizens voted in the european parliamentary elections the highest voter turnout since 1994 when it was 56 percent. Voter turnout was 55 percent higher than the average in the eu and four percentage points more than in the 2014 european parliament elections.

Politico europe tracks polling data for every european election and country. Provisional voter turnout across the eu28 was 50 95 at 11 00 cet. Voter participation in the european parliament elections 1994 95 2019 in sweden and the eu in total.