The 2019 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 26 May 2019, electing the 96 members of the national Germany constituency to the European Parliament. Both the CDU/CSU and SPD suffered major losses, while the Greens became the second largest party in a national-level election for the first time in German history.

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2019 European Parliament election in Germany

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All 96 German seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	61.38% ( 13.24 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– CDU/CSU Manfred Weber 28.9% 29 −5 Greens Ska Keller 20.5% 21 +10 SPD Katarina Barley 15.8% 16 −11 AfD Jörg Meuthen 11.0% 11 +4 Left Martin Schirdewan 5.5% 5 −2 FDP Nicola Beer 5.4% 5 +2 Die PARTEI Martin Sonneborn 2.4% 2 +1 FW Ulrike Müller 2.2% 2 +1 Tierschutzpartei Martin Buschmann 1.4% 1 0 ÖDP Klaus Buchner 1.0% 1 0 Familie Helmut Geuking 0.7% 1 0 Volt Damian Boeselager 0.7% 1 +1 Pirates Patrick Breyer 0.6% 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results of the election. The map on the left shows the results by district. The map in the upper right shows results by state.

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The 2019 European Parliament election was first national election to be held in Germany since the 2017 federal election, in which Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats suffered major losses, while the right-wing, Eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered parliament in third place. In 2018, the Greens and the AfD made large gains in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, with the Greens moving into second place in each, whilst the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats each suffered 10+ point swings. Federal polling saw the Greens take a consistent lead over the SPD since October.

Since the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have a formal 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 with the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method.

Although the European Council had recommended that countries with greater than 35 MEPs should introduce a threshold between 2–5%, the German government abandoned its plans for a 2% threshold in November 2018.^[1]