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EUOBSERVER Turnout in European Parliament elections by country (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Belgium Luxembourg Malta Italy Greece Denmark Cyprus Ireland Germany Spain Austria Sweden France Lithuania Latvia Finalnd Netherlands Hungary United Kingdom Estonia Romania Portugal Bulgaria Poland Slovenia Czechia Croatia Slovakia 1979-99 average 2004-19 average been since 2004, the lowest in the EU. This is despite the fairly normal turnout recorded in national elections. Academic commentators in Slovakia have pointed to the failure of political parties to campaign properly in these elections, the lack of relationship between party positions and European policy, and the electorate’s sense of the EU as an economic opportunity rather than a political community, and also – paradoxically – to the lack of anti-EU populist protest in previous Slovak elections. But the Fico government elected in 2023 might lead to these patterns changing in 2024. Overall turnout is sensitive to the trends in the biggest member states. Four countries – Germany, France, Italy and Spain - accounted for 55 percent of the votes cast in 2019, and will be a higher proportion in 2024 in the absence of the UK. In each of these, average turnout was down significantly between 1979-99 and 2004- 19, contributing to the downward trend across the EU, but increases in turnout in Germany (+13.3 percentage points) and Spain (+16.9 percentage points) in 2019 helped drive overall turnout up. It may well be that the decisive factor that keeps European Parliament turnout above 50 percent in 2024 is the mobilisation of voters by extreme and protest parties in the largest member states. ◄ About Lewis Baston Lewis Baston is an election analyst whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Times. His forthcoming book 'Borderlines' about border zones in Europe will be published in June.
Support truly independent European news by becoming a member. ← subscriptions@euobserver.com MONTHLY €1 MONTHLY €11 YEARLY €90 For under 25s only Short-term commitment Best value, save 34% SUBSCRIBE print magazine website daily newsletter social media CONTRIBUTORS EXTERNAL INTERNAL Kai Arzheimer is a professor of politics and political sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His primary focus lies in the study of far-right extremism and radicalism in Europe. Lewis Baston is an election analyst whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Times. His forthcoming book 'Borderlines' about border zones in Europe will be published in June. Piet Ruig is a Brussels-based journalist, who previously worked for Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. Priyanka Shankar is an independent journalist from India currently shuttling between Brussels and South Asia, covering migration, human rights and Europe's relations with Asia. She has written for Al Jazeera English, Deutsche Welle, The South China Morning Post, BBC Travel, Lighthouse Reports, Times UK, El Pais among others, and been nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism. Ioannis Vardakastanis is the president of the European Disability Forum and of the National Confederation of Disabled People (NCDP) of Greece. He is also president of the Economic and Monetary Union, Economic and Social Cohesion (ECO) section of the European Economic and Social Committee. Alejandro Tauber is publisher of EUobserver, and previously was editor at VICE’s Motherboard, and publisher of TNW, with a background in science and tech reporting. Shada Islam is a columnist for EUobserver, and visiting professor at the College of Europe. Matt Tempest is comment editor at EUobserver, and a former political correspondent for The Guardian in London, and news editor at AFP in Paris and dpa in Berlin, and Brexit reporter in Brussels for Euractiv. Elena Sánchez Nicolás is the managing editor of EUobserver. She joined the site in 2019 and specialises in institutional affairs, climate change and tech policy. Nikolaj Nielsen is migration and home affairs correspondent at EUobserver. Benjamin Fox is EUobserver's Africa correspondent, based in Nairobi. Wester van Gaal is green economy reporter with EUobserver. He was previously climate economy journalist for The Correspondent, and editor-in-chief of VICE, Motherboard. Paula Soler is EUobserver's social affairs correspondent. She previously worked covering economic and financial affairs at Spanish newspaper El Confidencial. Andrew Rettman is EUobserver’s foreign affairs and security correspondent. Judith Arnal is a columnist for EUobserver and a Spanish economist with the Real Instituto Elcano think-tank in Madrid and the Centre for European Policy Studies. Lisbeth Kirk is the founder of EUobserver. Henner Sorg is sales and marketing manager at EUobserver. Lou Wilmes is diplomatic relations manager at EUobserver. CREATIVE DIRECTION Studio Limbo - www.studiolimbo.be PRINTED BY Designpress GmbH ADDRESS EUobserver Résidence Palace - International Press Centre Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 155 1040 Brussels - Belgium CONTACT contact@euobserver.com 59
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