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2014 European Parliament election in Italy

2014 European Parliament election in Italy

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The 2014 European Parliament election in Italy took place on 25 May 2014. Italy elected 73 MEPs out of 751 European Parliament seats.[2]

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The governing Democratic Party (PD) won the election with 40.8% of the vote and 31 seats, followed by the Five Star Movement (21.2% and 17 seats) and Forza Italia (16.8% and 13 seats). As a result, the PD was the second largest national party in the European Parliament by number of seats after the German CDU/CSU and the largest among the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.[3] The PD's score was also the best result for an Italian party in a nationwide election since the 1958 general election, when the Christian Democracy won 42.4% of the vote.

The other parties that have passed the national electoral threshold at 4% are Northern League (6.2% and 5 seats), New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre (4.4% and 3 seats) and The Other Europe (4.0% and 3 seats). The parties that have not passed the electoral threshold and that have not gained any seat are Brothers of Italy (3.7%), European Greens – Green Italia (0.9%), European Choice (0.7%), Italy of Values (0.7%) and I ChangeAssociative Movement Italians Abroad (0.2%).

The 4% threshold can be bypassed by parties representing linguistic minorities, provided they get more than 50,000 votes, in connection with a party gaining more than 4% of the vote. The South Tyrolean People's Party, representing the German-speaking minority of South Tyrol, won a seat thanks to its connection with the PD.

Electoral system

The party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946, so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too. Two levels were used: a national level to divide seats between parties, and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates. Italian regions were united in 5 constituencies, each electing a group of deputies. At national level, seats were divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local open lists and their most voted candidates.

In the run-up to the 2009 election, the Italian Parliament introduced a national threshold of 4% in the electoral law for the European Parliament. However, the electoral law guarantees representation for linguistic minorities. The parties which represent minorities can be connected with the major parties for the purpose of elections, combining their votes. If the party of the linguistic minority gets more than 50,000 votes, it wins a seat.

Main parties and leaders

Outgoing MEPs

This is a list of Italian delegations sitting at the European Parliament before 25 May 2014.

  1. Including one MEP of The Populars of Italy Tomorrow.
  2. Including one MEP of Populars for Italy and one MEP of UDC.

Retiring incumbents

The following MEPs are not seeking re-election:

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Summary of parties

In the following table the twelve parties/lists participating in the election are listed.

  1. Including PSI and ALPE. PD had 23 MEPs, three of them split from IdV.
  2. Legal successor of PdL, including PID, UDEUR and MIR. FI had 17 MEPs, 16 sitting with EPP and one with ECR.
  3. List composed of NCD and UDC, including Ppl. UdC had 5 MEPs, NCD 6 split from PdL, Ppl 2 split form PdL.
  4. Including MpA and DF. LN had 6 MEPs, 5 sitting with EFD and one with NI.
  5. Including I Love Italy. FdI had 2 MEPs split from PdL, 2 sitting with EPP, I Love Italy one with EFD.
  6. List composed of SC, FFD and CD, including also CSR, PLI, PRI and other minor parties. CSR had one MEP splits from PdL with ECR.
  7. Including I Change and MAIE. I Change had one MEP splits from LN with EFD
  8. Including PATT, UpT and SS.
  9. Including SEL, PRC, VGV, Independents and other minor parties.

Top candidates

In the following table the top candidates of each party/list in the five constituencies are listed. In the case in which the party leader stands in all five of them as top candidate, also the second in the list is shown. The Five Star Movement's slates were compiled following the alphabetical order.[6][7][8]

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Opinion polling

Poll results are listed according to the date of publication of the survey. Detailed data are usually published in the official website of the Italian government. The publication of opinion polls during the last 15 days of the electoral campaign is forbidden by Italian law.

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Results

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See also


References

  1. "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Italy - European Parliament". Europarl.europa.eu. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  2. "Europee, Vittorio Prodinon si ricandida". la Repubblica (in Italian). 8 March 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  3. "Europarlamentare Udc non si ricandida. E "rinasce" in versione rock-Terminator". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 27 April 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  4. "MoVimento". Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  5. List connected with the Democratic Party

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