1999 European Parliament election

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All 626 seats to theEuropean Parliament 314 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	49.8% (7.0pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Hans-Gert Pöttering Enrique Barón Crespo Pat Cox Party EPP–ED PES ELDR Leader's seat Germany Spain Munster Last election 157, 27.7% 198, 34.9% 43, 7.6% Seats won 233* 180* 50* Seat change 76 18 18 Percentage 37.2% 28.8% 8.0% Swing 9.5% 6.1% 0.4%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Heidi Hautala Francis Wurtz Charles Pasqua Party Greens/EFA GUE/NGL UEN Leader's seat Finland Île-de-France France Last election 23, 4.1% 28, 4.9% 26, 4.6% Seats won 48 42* 30 Seat change 25 14 4 Percentage 7.7% 6.7% 4.8 Swing 3.6% 1.8% 0.2%
Post-election composition of each member state's delegation
President of the European Parliament before election José María Gil-Robles EPP President of the European Parliament after election Nicole Fontaine EPP–ED

The1999 European Parliament election was aEuropean election for all 626members of theEuropean Parliament held across the 15European Unionmember states on 10, 11 and 13 June 1999. The voter turn-out was generally low, except inBelgium andLuxembourg, where voting is compulsory and where national elections were held that same day. This was the first election whereAustria,Finland andSweden voted alongside the other member states, having joined in 1995 and voted separately. Thenext election was held in 2004.

European Parliament election, 1999 - Final results at 20 July 1999
Group		Description	Chaired by	MEPs
	EPP-ED	Conservatives andChristian Democrats	Hans-Gert Pöttering	233
	PES	Social Democrats	Enrique Barón Crespo	180
	ELDR	Liberals andLiberal Democrats	Pat Cox	50
	G–EFA	Greens andRegionalists	Heidi Hautala Paul Lannoye	48
	EUL–NGL	Communists and theFar left	Francis Wurtz	42
	UEN	National Conservatives	Charles Pasqua	31
	EDD	Eurosceptics	Jens-Peter Bonde	16
	TGI	Mixed	Gianfranco Dell'Alba [it] Francesco Speroni	18
	NI	Independents andFar right	none	8	Total: 626	Sources:[1][2]Archived 2015-09-24 at theWayback Machine[3]Archived 2009-03-04 at theWayback Machine

The national results as at 13 June 1999 are as follows:

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TheEUL/NGL group picked up one seat in the election and seven in the subsequent regrouping, raising its total from 34 to 42.

ThePES group did badly, losing 34 of its seats in the election and slipping to the second-biggest group.

TheELDR group did moderately well, picking up one seat in the election and seven in the regrouping, giving a total of 50 seats and retaining its place as the third biggest group. TheEuropean Radical Alliance (ERA) were not so fortunate and slipped badly, losing eight of its 21 members in the election.

TheEPP group did well, picking up 23 seats in the election and nine in the regrouping, giving a total of 233 seats and overtaking the left to become the biggest group. To placate the increasingly eurosceptic BritishConservatives, the group was renamed "EPP-ED" for the new Parliament, partly resurrecting the name of the formerEuropean Democrat group which was merged^[1] with the EPP in 1992.

The Union for Europe (UFE) group slipped during the election and lost 17 seats. The group split^[2] during the regrouping, with Ireland'sFianna Fáil and Portugal'sCDS/PP forming a new group called "Union for Europe of the Nations". UEN started the Fifth Parliament with 31 MEPs.

No explicitly far-right groupper se was in existence immediately before or after the election. All far-right MEPs that were elected sat as Independents (see below).

TheGreen Group solidified its position, picking up 11 seats in the election to give it 38 MEPs. TheEuropean Free Alliance members of the ERA joined with the Green Group to create^[3] theGreens/EFA group, which started the Fifth Parliament with 48 MEPs.

TheI-EN group trod water, gaining six members in the election but losing five in the regrouping, leaving it with 16 members. The group was renamed^[4] "Europe of Democracies and Diversities" (EDD) for the new Parliament.

TheNon-Inscrits did badly, losing 20 MEPs to the election. Disparate members (two from Belgium, five from France and eleven from Italy)^[5] tried to gain Group privilege by creating a group called the "Technical Group of Independent Members" (full title "Group for the technical co-ordination of groups and the defence of independent members", abbreviated to "TGI" or "TDI"). The attempt initially succeeded, with the group allowed to start the Fifth Parliament until the legal position could be checked.^[5] In September, the Constitutional Affairs Committee ruled that they lacked a coherent position ("political affinity", the basis for forming a group) and were disbanded^[6] - the only group ever to be forcibly dissolved. The TGI members returned to the Non-Inscrits, increasing their number to 27.^[7]

• Members of the European Parliament 1999–2004

• European Election Studieswww.europeanelectionstudies.net
• Outgoing parliament as of January 1999 (also includes June 1994)
• Outgoing parliament as of May 4th 1999 (last session of Fourth Parliament): source 1
• Outgoing parliament as of May 4th 1999 (last session of Fourth Parliament): source 2
• Election results as of June 13 1999, before regrouping
• Incoming parliament as of July 20th 1999 (first session of Fifth Parliament. Includes TGI a.k.a. TDI)
• Incoming parliament as of September 13 1999 (after TGI was forcibly dissolved)

• 1999 European Parliament election
• 1999 elections in Europe
• June 1999 in Europe

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