All 736 seats to the European Parliament and 18 observers 369 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
43.24% 2.4 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Joseph Daul
Martin Schulz
Graham Watson
Party
EPP
PES
ELDR
Alliance
EPP
S&D
ALDE
Leader's seat
East France
Germany
South West England
Last election
277 seats, 36.4%
218 seats, 27.2%
106 seats, 12.0%
Seats before
288
217
104
Seats won
265 8 observers
183 5 observers
84
Seat change
23*
34*
20*
Percentage
36%
25%
11.4%
Swing
0.7%
2.8%
1.8%
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ECR
Leader
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
None
Francis Wurtz
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MER
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ECR
GUE/NGL
Leader's seat
Germany
N/A
Île-de-France
Last election
42 seats, 5.7%
New group
41 seats, 5.6%
Seats before
42
N/A
35
Seats won
55 2 observers
54 1 observer
35
Seat change
13*
N/A
6*
Percentage
7.5%
7.3%
4.8%
Swing
2.1%
N/A
0.5%
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Leader
Nigel Farage (de facto)
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UKIP
Alliance
EFD
Leader's seat
South East England
Last election
New group
Seats before
N/A
Seats won
32
Seat change
N/A
Percentage
4.3%
Swing
N/A
Post-election composition of each member state's delegation
* The number of seats was decreased from 785 to 736 – so this is a nominal figure
President of the European Parliament before election
Hans-Gert Pöttering
EPP–ED
President of the European Parliament after election
Jerzy Buzek
EPP
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The 2009 European Parliament election was held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009.[1] A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent some 500 million[2] Europeans, making these the biggest trans-national elections in history. An additional 18 observers ("virtual MEPs") were (supposed to be) pre-elected.
The majority of MEPs were elected on Sunday 7 June, but because of traditional polling days varying from country to country according to local custom, some countries held their elections in the three preceding days:
Thursday 4 June: United Kingdom (including Gibraltar), Netherlands (including Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles)[3]
Friday 5 June: Ireland, Czech Republic (day 1)
Saturday 6 June: Cyprus, France (for part of Outre-mer),[4] Italy (day 1), Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Czech Republic (day 2)
In seven EU member states, other votes occurred alongside the elections to the European Parliament: a general election in Luxembourg; local government elections in Latvia,[5] part of the United Kingdom,[6] parts of Germany, Italy, Malta, and Ireland[7] (as well as two by-elections in Ireland, in Dublin Central and Dublin South); regional elections in Belgium; and a referendum on reforming the monarchical rules of succession in Denmark that would give women the same rights through equal primogeniture.
This was the first European Parliament election in which Bulgaria and Romania participated at the same time as the other member states. When those countries joined the EU in 2007, they held elections for MEPs outside the normal electoral calendar.
^"European Parliament". Europa (web portal). 21 May 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
^"CIA — The World Factbook — European Union". Cia.gov. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
^(in Dutch)Telegraaf.nl 1500 votes on the Antilles
^In the order of the time zones: Saint Pierre and Miquelon, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, French Polynesia
^Delfi As. "Муниципальные выборы". Rus.delfi.lv. Archived from the original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
^Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster (4 November 2008). "House of Commons Hansard Debates from 4 November 2008 – Local Government Motion". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^"News — Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government". Environ.ie. Retrieved 6 April 2009.[dead link]
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