All 751 seats to the European Parliament 376 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
198,352,638 (50.66%[2] 8.01 pp)
Leader
Manfred Weber
Frans Timmermans
Margrethe Vestager
Alliance
EPP
S&D
Renew
Leader's seat
Germany
Netherlands
Denmark[a]
Last election
221 seats, 23.8%
191 seats, 24.4%
67 seats, 7.0%
Seats before
216
185
69
Seats won
187
147
98
Seat change
34
31
39
Popular vote
41,211,023
35,421,084
23,788,652
Percentage
21.0%
18.5%
13.0%
Swing
2.8%
5.9%
6.0%
Leader
Bas Eickhout Ska Keller
Marco Zanni
Jan Zahradil
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Greens/EFA
ID
ECR
Leader's seat
Netherlands Germany
North-West Italy
Czech Republic
Last election
50 seats, 7.3%
New group
70 seats, 5.2%
Seats before
52
36
77
Seats won
74
76
62
Seat change
22
40
15
Popular vote
19,886,513
20,980,853
14,207,477
Percentage
11.7%
10.8%
8.2%
Swing
4.4%
New group
3.0%
Leader
Violeta Tomić (N/E) Nico Cué
Alliance
GUE/NGL
Leader's seat
Slovenia Belgium (French)[a]
Last election
52 seats, 5.6%
Seats before
52
Seats won
41
Seat change
11
Popular vote
10,219,537
Percentage
6.5%
Swing
0.9%
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President of the European Commission before election
Jean-Claude Juncker
EPP
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Ursula von der Leyen
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The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states. In February 2018, the European Parliament had voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019.[3] However, the United Kingdom participated alongside other EU member states after an extension of Article 50 to 31 October 2019; therefore, the allocation of seats between the member states and the total number of seats remained as it had been in 2014.[4] The Ninth European Parliament had its first plenary session on 2 July 2019.[5]
On 26 May 2019, the European People's Party led by Manfred Weber won the most seats in the European Parliament, making Weber the leading candidate to become the next President of the European Commission.[6][7] Despite this, the European Council decided after the election to nominate Ursula von der Leyen as new Commission President. The centre-left and centre-right parties suffered significant losses, while pro-EU centrist, liberal and environmentalist parties and anti-EU right-wing populist parties made substantial gains.[8][9]
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