Inhoud pagina: Elections of the European Parliament
Introductie
The turnout at the election for the European Parliament was, with 36.9%, a bit lower than at the previous election in 2004, when the turnout was 39.26%. Of the 12,378,500 voters, 4,573,743 persons cast their votes on Thursday, 4 June. Of these 4,553,864 were valid, non-abstentious votes. 10,013 persons abstained from voting and 9,866 votes were invalid.
Content
Total number of votes and electoral
The total number of valid, not-abstentious votes amounts to 4,553,864 votes. There are 25 seats to be distributed. The electoral quotient therefore amounts to 182,154 14/25 votes; the preference threshold is at least 10 % of this number, therefore 18,216 votes.
EP election: Number of votes per party
In total the following numbers of votes were cast for the different parties.
EP election: turnout figures
The turnout at the election for the European Parliament was, with 36.9%, a bit lower than at the previous election in 2004, when the turnout was 39.26%.
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EP election: Number of candidates and man/woman distribution
The lists of the seventeen parties that participated in the election comprised 289 candidates in total. Ninety-six of these were women. That is 33% of the total.
In the end, eleven women were chosen from the 25 candidates, 44% of the total number.
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