1994 European Parliament Election
9–12 June 1994 · The Community years · 567 seats, 285 for a majority · 12 member states
The first post-Maastricht election returned the Socialists' largest-ever group, 198 seats, in a chamber enlarged for German reunification. Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's brand-new Prime Minister, exported his party wholesale as Forza Europa, the first group built from a single national party.
President of the European Parliament before
Egon Klepsch
EPP
President of the European Parliament after
Klaus Hänsch
PES
Largest group
PES
198 of 567 seats
Turnout
56.8%
across 12 member states
The Parliament it elected
| Share of chamber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PES | Party of European Socialists | Pauline Green | 198 | — | |
| EPP | European People's Party | Wilfried Martens | 157 | — | |
| ELDR | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | Gijs De Vries | 43 | — | |
| EUL | European United Left | Alonso José Puerta | 28 | — | |
| FE | Forza Europa | Giancarlo Ligabue | 27 | — | |
| EDA | European Democratic Alliance | Jean-Claude Pasty | 26 | — | |
| G | Green Group | — | 23 | — | |
| ERA | European Radical Alliance | Catherine Lalumière | 19 | — | |
| EN | Europe of Nations | James Goldsmith | 19 | — | |
| NI | Non-Inscrits | — | 27 | — |
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 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 25 | ||||
| Denmark | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | |||||
| France | 15 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 87 | ||
| Germany | 40 | 47 | 12 | 99 | |||||||
| Ireland | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 15 | |||||
| Italy | 18 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 87 | ||
| Luxembourg | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Netherlands | 8 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 31 | |||||
| United Kingdom | 63 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 87 | |||||
| Greece | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 25 | ||||||
| Spain | 22 | 30 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 64 | |||||
| Portugal | 10 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 25 | |||||
| Total | 198 | 157 | 43 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 567 |