European elections, 6 – 9 June 2024, country sheet GERMANY
Official EE24 website:https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/europawahlen/2024.html
Other elections/referenda held the same day: No
Number of MEPs before/after EE24: 96/96
Current government:SPD(S&D) /Grüne(Greens) /FDP(Renew) alliance
ELECTORAL RULES
- Obligatory vote: No
- Number of constituencies: 1 (although constituencies of merely administrative interest or distributive relevance within a party list exist in Germany: 16 constituencies, only in the case of the CDU/CSU)
- Preferential vote: No
- Postal vote: Yes
- Threshold to get elected: No
- Day of EE24: Sunday 9 June
- Opening time of polling stations: 08:00 CEST
- Closing time of polling stations: 18:00 CEST
VOTERS
- Total: around 60.9 million German nationals, plus 4.1 million non-German EU citizens (February 2024)
- Minimum age: 16
CANDIDATES
- Lists (total): 35 political parties
- Candidates (total): 1413
- Minimum age to stand as candidate: 18
Lead candidates per list or party (affiliation)(Inboldthose represented in outgoing EP)
- CDU – Ursula von der Leyen (however, not a candidate for Parliament, only Spitzenkandidat for Commission)
- CSU –Manfred Weber
- SPD –Katarina Barley
- FDP – Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
- Die Grünen –Terry Reintke
- Die Linke – Carola Rackete und Martin Schirdewan
- AfD –Maximilian Krah
- Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Fabio di Masi und Thomas Geisel
- Freie Wähler – Christine Singer
MEPs re-running(inboldlead candidate of list)
EPP: CDU/CSU
- Jan Christian Ehler,
- Michael Gahler,
- Niclas Herbst,
- Norbert Lins,
- Christine Schneider,
- Ralf Seekatz,
- Sabine Verheyen,
- Hans-Peter Liese,
- Stefan Berger,
- Dennis Radtke,
- Lena Düpont,
- Jens Gieseke,
- David McAllister,
- Andreas Schwab,
- Axel Voss,
- Daniel Caspary,
- Monika Hohlmeier,
- Markus Ferber,
- Sabine Verheyen,
- Manfred Weber,
- Rainer Wieland,
- Christian Doleschal,
- Angelika Niebler;
EPP: Familien-Partei Deutschlands
- Niels Geuking
S&D:
- Gabriele Bischoff,
- Udo Bullmann,
- Delara Burkhardt,
- Matthias Ecke,
- Jens Geier,
- Bernd Lange,
- Karsten Lucke,
- Maria Noichl,
- René Repasi,
- Thomas Rudner,
- Birgit Sippel,
- Katarina Barley,
- Tiemo Wölken
RENEW: FDP
- Svenja Hahn,
- Andreas Glück,
- Moritz Körner,
- Jan-Christoph Oetjen
RENEW: Freie Wähler
- Engin Eroglu
Greens: Die Grünen
- Rasmus Andresen,
- Jan Michael Bloss,
- Anna Cavazzini,
- Viola von Cramon-Taubadel,
- Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg,
- Daniel Freund,
- Alexandra Geese,
- Martin Häusling,
- Sergey Lagodinsky,
- Katrin Langensiepen,
- Erik Marquardt,
- Hannah Neumann,
- Niklas Nienaß,
- Jutta Paulus,
- Terry Reintke,
Greens – Volt:
- Damian Boeselager (Volt), Manuela Ripa (Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei)
The Left: Die Linke
- Martin Schirdewan,
- Özlem Demirel
ECR:
- Lars Patrick Berg (Bündnis Deutschland)
Former ID, now Non-attached: AfD
- Christine Anderson,
- Gunnar Beck,
- Markus Buchheit,
- Maximilian Krah
Non-attached: DIE PARTEI
- Martin Sonneborn
RESULTS 2019
MEPs / % votes
- CDU/CSU 29/28.9%
- Grüne 21/20.5%
- SPD 16/15.8%
- AfD 11/11.0%
- Die Linke 5/5.5%
- FDP 5/5.4%
- Freie Wähler 2/2.2%
- Piraten 1/0.7%
- Tierschutzpartei 1/1.4%
- FAMILIE 1/0.7%
- ÖDP 1/1.0%
- DIE PARTEI 2/2.4%
- Volt 1/0.7%
TURNOUT 2019
61.38%
Source – EU Parliament