The 2024 European Parliament election in Germany is scheduled to be held on 9 June 2024.^[1] This will be the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit.^[2][3]

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2024 European Parliament election in Germany

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All 96 German seats to the European Parliament

Party Leader Current seats CDU/CSU Manfred Weber 29 Greens Terry Reintke 21 SPD Katarina Barley 16 AfD Maximilian Krah 9 Left Martin Schirdewan Carola Rackete 6 FDP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann 5 Die PARTEI Martin Sonneborn 1 FW Christine Singer 2 ÖDP Manuela Ripa 1 Familie Helmut Geuking 1 Volt Damian Boeselager Nela Riehl 1 Pirates Anja Hirschel 1 BD Lars Patrick Berg 1 Independent 3

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The 2024 European Parliament election will be the first national election to be held in Germany since the 2021 federal election, in which retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats lost to the Social Democratic Party led by Olaf Scholz.^[4]

Since the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have an overriding threshold of the vote share required in order for a party to win an EP seat. This has allowed a number of smaller parties to gain representation, since they only have to reach about 0.5% of the vote share needed to get their first seat under the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

Germany is entitled to elect 96 Members of the European Parliament.^[5]

Although the European Council had recommended that countries with more than 35 MEPs should introduce a threshold between 2% and 5%, the German government abandoned its plans for a 2% threshold in November 2018.^[6] In 2022, the government decided to introduce a 2% threshold, but this will not yet apply in the 2024 election.^[7] In 2019, the de facto threshold for a seat was around 0.7% of the vote.

The table shows the detailed composition of the German seats at the European Parliament as of 12 March 2024.

Political parties and other political associations may submit lists for the European elections. The lists must be submitted by the 83rd day before the election. Nationwide lists must be signed by 4,000 eligible voters, state lists by 1 per thousand, but not more than 2,000 eligible voters of the respective state (section 9 (5) EuWG). Parties that have been represented in the Bundestag, a regional parliament or the European Parliament with at least five members since its last election are exempt from the obligation to submit supporting signatures. These are (sorted by election results 2019):

The following other parties are currently represented in the European Parliament with one MEP each:

The federal lists of the following other parties and political associations were accepted:^[10]