1994 European Parliament election in Germany
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All 99 German seats in the European Parliament | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election of the delegation from Germany to the European Parliament (EP) was held in June 1994.
Due to the accession of the former East German states in 1990, these were the first EU elections in Germany to have East Germans voting. Additionally, the ratification of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty meant that for the first time, European Union citizens resident in Germany could vote on the German members of the European Parliament.[2]
The EP election was part of a "super election year" in Germany, which also saw the 1994 German federal election in October, alongside parliamentary elections in eight of sixteen German states.[3] Treating the EP election as a second-order election,[4] some commentators saw the good result for the reigning Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as a positive indicator of their chances in the subsequent federal elections (which the CDU did indeed win).[3] However, researchers later cast doubt on the notion that the 1994 EP election was a useful "test case" for subsequent national voting patterns.[5]
Results
References
- ^ a b "Wahl zum 4. Europäischen Parlament am 12. Juni 1994" (in German). Bundeswahlleiter. Archived from the original on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2012-05-05.
- ^ "Ausländer können an deutscher Europawahl teilnehmen: Premiere für EU-Bürger". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 1994-03-15. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ a b "Europawahlen – Historisches Lexikon Bayerns". www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ Hix, Simon; Marsh, Michael (2011-03-01). "Second-order effects plus pan-European political swings: An analysis of European Parliament elections across time". Electoral Studies. Special Symposium: Electoral Democracy in the European Union. 30 (1): 4–15. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.017. ISSN 0261-3794.
- ^ Niedermayer, Oskar (1995). "Die Europawahl in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Kontext des Superwahljahres 1994". Integration. 18 (1): 22–30. ISSN 0720-5120.