2014 European Parliament election in Italy

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All 73 Italian seats to theEuropean Parliament
Opinion polls
Turnout	58.37%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Matteo Renzi Beppe Grillo Silvio Berlusconi Party Democratic Party Five Star Movement Forza Italia Alliance S&D EFDD EPP Leader since 15 December 2013 4 October 2009 18 January 1994 Last election 26.1%, 21 seats New party 35.3% asPdL 29 seats Seats won 31 17 13 Seat change 10 New party 16 Popular vote 11,203,231 5,807,362 4,614,364 Percentage 40.8% 21.2% 16.8% Swing 14.7% New party 18.5%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Matteo Salvini Angelino Alfano Collective leadership Party Northern League NCD – UDC The Other Europe Alliance NI EPP GUE/NGL Leader since 7 December 2013 15 November 2013 — Last election 10.2%, 9 seats New New Seats won 5 3 3 Seat change 4 New New Popular vote 1,688,197 1,202,350 1,108,457 Percentage 6.2% 4.4% 4.0% Swing 4.0% New New
European election results map.Red denotes provinces with a Democratic Party plurality,Azure denotes those with a Forza Italia plurality,Green denotes those with a Lega Nord plurality,Gray denotes those with a regionalist plurality

The2014 European Parliament election in Italy took place on 25 May 2014. Italy elected 73MEPs out of 751European Parliament seats.^[1]

The governingDemocratic Party (PD) won the election with 40.8% of the vote and 31 seats, followed by theFive Star Movement (21.2% and 17 seats) andForza 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 GermanCDU/CSU and the largest among theProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.^[2] The PD's score was also the best result for an Italian party in a nationwide election since the1958 general election, when theChristian Democracy won 42.4% of the vote.

The other parties that have passed the national electoral threshold at 4% areNorthern League (6.2% and 5 seats),New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre (4.4% and 3 seats) andThe Other Europe (4.0% and 3 seats). The parties that have not passed the electoral threshold and that have not gained any seat areBrothers of Italy (3.7%),European Greens – Green Italia (0.9%),European Choice (0.7%),Italy of Values (0.7%) andI Change –Associative 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. TheSouth Tyrolean People's Party, representing theGerman-speaking minority ofSouth Tyrol, won a seat thanks to its connection with the PD.

Theparty-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 thelargest remainder method withHare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their localopen lists and their most voted candidates.

In the run-up to the 2009 election, theItalian Parliament introduced a nationalelectoral threshold of 4% in the electoral law for theEuropean 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.

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

The following MEPs are not seeking re-election:

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

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. TheFive Star Movement's slates were compiled following the alphabetical order.^[5][6][7]

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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