1989 European Parliament Election
The green wave15–18 June 1989 · The Community years · 518 seats, 260 for a majority · 12 member states
Spain and Portugal's first full European election, held as the Berlin Wall entered its final months. The Socialists won a third straight victory, and the green wave arrived: 30 MEPs formed the first Green group after breakthroughs in Britain (15% of the vote and no seats, courtesy of first-past-the-post), France and Germany.
President of the European Parliament before
Henry Plumb
ED
President of the European Parliament after
Enrique Barón Crespo
SOC
Largest group
SOC
180 of 518 seats
Turnout
58.5%
across 12 member states
The Parliament it elected
| Share of chamber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC | Socialist Group | Jean-Pierre Cot | 180 | — | |
| EPP | European People's Party (Christian Democrats) | Egon Klepsch | 121 | — | |
| LDR | Liberal, Democratic and Reformist Group | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 49 | — | |
| EUL & LU | European United Left / Left Unity | — | 42 | — | |
| ED | European Democrats (Conservatives) | Christopher Prout | 34 | — | |
| G | Green Group | Maria Amélia Santos | 30 | — | |
| EDA | European Democratic Alliance | Christian de La Malène | 20 | — | |
| DR | European Right | Jean-Marie Le Pen | 17 | — | |
| RBW | Rainbow Group (regionalists) | Jaak Vandemeulebroucke | 13 | — | |
| NI | Non-Inscrits | — | 12 | — |
Group composition at or immediately after the Parliament's constitutive session; groups form and dissolve between elections, so totals elsewhere may differ. Vote shares are EU-wide shares for the parties that formed each group, where the source reports them.
The result by member state
How each of the 12member states' MEPs divided among the political groups.
| Belgium | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24 | ||||
| Denmark | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 16 | ||||
| France | 22 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 81 | |
| West Germany | 31 | 32 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 81 | |||||
| Ireland | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 15 | ||||
| Italy | 14 | 27 | 3 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 81 | |||
| Luxembourg | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| Netherlands | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 25 | |||||
| United Kingdom | 46 | 1 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 81 | |||||
| Greece | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 24 | ||||||
| Spain | 27 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 60 | |||
| Portugal | 8 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 24 | |||||
| Total | 180 | 121 | 49 | 42 | 34 | 30 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 518 |