# 2014 European Parliament election in Germany

The 2014 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 25 May 2014. Under the Lisbon Treaty, Germany lost three seats and elected 96 members of the European Parliament, instead of the previous 99.

## Electoral threshold

The previous electoral threshold of 5% was ruled unconstitutional in 2011, leading the major parties to implement a 3% threshold instead. However the Constitutional Court ruled on 26 February 2014 that this threshold was illegal as well. Under this circumstances a vote share of 0.6% proved sufficient to win an EP seat (result of Die PARTEI) and seven parties won single seats; the seats were allocated according to the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

## Opinion polling

| Date | Polling Firm | CDU/CSU EPP | SPD S&D | Greens G/EFA | FDP ALDE | Left GUE-NGL | AfD ECR | Others |
| 22 May 2014 | FGW | 37.5 | 26.5 | 10 | 3.5 | 7.5 | 7 | 8 |
| 16 May 2014 | FGW | 38 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| 14 May 2014 | Infratest dimap | 37 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 |
| 13 May 2014 | YouGov | 39 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 |
| 9 May 2014 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 38 | 27 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| 30 April 2014 | infratest dimap | 39 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| 25 April 2014 | INSA | 36 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| 11 April 2014 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 39 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| 3 April 2014 | infratest dimap | 40 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| 28 March 2014 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 39 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| 14 March 2014 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 38 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| 9 March 2014 | INSA | 38 | 26 | 9.5 | 3 | 8.5 | 7.5 | – |
| 6 March 2014 | Infratest | 40 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| 21 February 2014 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 40 | 24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| 14 February 2014 | INSA | 39 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 5 |
| 6 February 2014 | Infratest | 38 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| 26 January 2014 | Emnid | 42 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
| 7 June 2009 | Election Results | 37.9 | 20.8 | 12.1 | 11.0 | 7.5 | — | 9.8 |

## Results

| | EPP | | Christian Democratic Union | 8,812,653 | 30.02 | 29 | –5 |
| | S&D | | Social Democratic Party | 8,003,628 | 27.26 | 27 | +4 |
| | G/EFA | | Alliance '90/The Greens | 3,139,274 | 10.69 | 11 | –3 |
| | GUE-NGL | | The Left | 2,168,455 | 7.39 | 7 | –1 |
| | ECR | | Alternative for Germany | 2,070,014 | 7.05 | 7 | New |
| | EPP | | Christian Social Union | 1,567,448 | 5.34 | 5 | –3 |
| | ALDE | | Free Democratic Party | 986,841 | 3.36 | 3 | –9 |
| | ALDE | | Free Voters | 428,800 | 1.46 | 1 | +1 |
| | G/EFA | | Pirate Party Germany | 425,044 | 1.45 | 1 | +1 |
| | GUE-NGL | | Human Environment Animal Protection Party | 366,598 | 1.25 | 1 | +1 |
| | NI | | National Democratic Party | 301,139 | 1.03 | 1 | +1 |
| | ECR | | Family Party | 202,803 | 0.69 | 1 | +1 |
| | G/EFA | | Ecological Democratic Party | 185,244 | 0.63 | 1 | +1 |
| | NI | | Die PARTEI | 184,709 | 0.63 | 1 | +1 |
| | ECR | | The Republicans | 109,757 | 0.37 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | From now on... Democracy by Referendum | 88,535 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | Bavaria Party | 62,438 | 0.21 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | Party of Bible-abiding Christians | 55,336 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | Pro NRW | 52,649 | 0.18 | 0 | New |
| | NI | | Party for Labour, Environment and Family | 50,953 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | Christian Centre | 30,136 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | German Communist Party | 25,147 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | Marxist–Leninist Party | 18,198 | 0.06 | 0 | New |
| | NI | | Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität | 10,369 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 |
| | NI | | Party for Social Equality | 8,924 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 29,355,092 | 100.00 | 96 | –3 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 29,355,092 | 98.36 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 488,706 | 1.64 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 29,843,798 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 61,998,824 | 48.14 | | |
| Source: Bundeswahlleiter ||||||||
* CDU/CSU vote
* SPD vote
* Green vote
* Linke vote
* AFD vote
* FDP vote
* NPD vote
* Familien-Partei vote

### Results by state

Results for each party by state.
| State | Union | SPD | Grüne | Linke | AfD | FDP | Others |
| Baden-Württemberg | 39.3 | 23.0 | 13.2 | 3.6 | 7.9 | 4.1 | 8.9 |
| Bavaria | 40.5 | 20.1 | 12.1 | 2.9 | 8.1 | 3.1 | 13.3 |
| Berlin | 20.0 | 24.0 | 19.1 | 16.2 | 7.9 | 2.8 | 10.0 |
| Brandenburg (formerly part of East Germany) | 25.0 | 26.9 | 6.1 | 19.7 | 8.5 | 2.1 | 11.7 |
| Bremen | 22.4 | 34.4 | 17.6 | 9.6 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 7.1 |
| Hamburg | 24.6 | 33.8 | 17.2 | 8.6 | 6.0 | 3.7 | 6.1 |
| Hesse | 30.6 | 30.3 | 12.9 | 5.6 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 7.3 |
| Lower Saxony | 39.4 | 32.5 | 10.9 | 4.0 | 5.4 | 2.5 | 5.3 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (formerly part of East Germany) | 34.6 | 21.2 | 5.1 | 19.6 | 7.0 | 1.9 | 10.6 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 35.6 | 33.7 | 10.1 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 4.0 | 6.5 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 38.4 | 30.7 | 8.1 | 3.7 | 6.7 | 3.7 | 8.7 |
| Saarland | 34.9 | 34.4 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 9.0 |
| Saxony (formerly part of East Germany) | 34.5 | 15.6 | 6.0 | 18.3 | 10.1 | 2.6 | 12.9 |
| Saxony-Anhalt (formerly part of East Germany) | 30.7 | 21.7 | 4.8 | 21.8 | 6.3 | 2.6 | 12.0 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 34.4 | 31.9 | 12.4 | 4.5 | 6.8 | 3.8 | 6.2 |
| Thuringia (formerly part of East Germany) | 31.8 | 18.4 | 5.0 | 22.5 | 7.4 | 2.1 | 12.8 |

### Post-poll alliance

| EPP | S&D | ECR | ALDE | GUE/NGL | G-EFA | EFDD | NI | Total |
| 29 (CDU) 5 (CSU) | 27 (SPD) | 7 (AfD) 1 (Familie) | 3 (FDP) 1 (FW) | 7 (Linke) 1 (Tierschutz) | 11 (B'90/Grüne) 1 (Piraten) 1 (ÖDP) | | 1 (NPD) 1 (Partei) | 96 |