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Below is a list of members of the European Parliament serving in the ninth term (2019–2024). It is sorted by list position or in cases of multiple constituencies, an English perception of surname treating all variations of de/di/do, van/von, Ó/Ní/Uí, and so forth as part of the collation key, even if this is not the normal practice in a member's own country.
This would represent an increase of more than 6% compared to the 2019 election, which had 59.8% turnout. It would also be the highest turnout since the first EU parliament election in Austria in 1996, when turnout was 67.7%. Other pollsters like the Lazarsfeld Society or Spectra are estimating turnout at between 52% to 63%.
It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. [5] [6] A total of 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 450 million people from 27 member states.
European People's Party Group (EPP) European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Identity and Democracy (ID) Non-Inscrits (NI) Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
Far-right parties made big gains in the European Parliament in election results that rattled the traditional powers and made French President Emmanuel Macron call snap legislative elections.
The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019. It was the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979 . A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states .
The European Parliament has a high turnover of members compared to some national parliaments. After every recent election, just over half of elected members had not been members in the previous parliament. Elmar Brok served the longest continuous term from the first elections in 1980 until 2019 (39 years).
A projection by poll aggregator Europe Elects forecast in April that out of the 720 seats available in the EP, the Group of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) would win 183, the centre ...