Seats by political group and country - 1994-1999
Outgoing Parliament

Country Number of seats
Austria
Austria:

6

Austria:

7

Austria:

1

Austria:

1

Austria:

6

 21
Belgium
Belgium:

6

Belgium:

7

Belgium:

6

Belgium:

2

Belgium:

1

Belgium:

3

 25
Denmark
Denmark:

4

Denmark:

3

Denmark:

5

Denmark:

4

 16
Finland
Finland:

4

Finland:

4

Finland:

5

Finland:

2

Finland:

1

 16
France
France:

16

France:

13

France:

1

France:

7

France:

17

France:

12

France:

8

France:

13

 87
Germany
Germany:

40

Germany:

47

Germany:

12

 99
Greece
Greece:

10

Greece:

9

Greece:

4

Greece:

2

 25
Ireland
Ireland:

1

Ireland:

4

Ireland:

1

Ireland:

7

Ireland:

2

 15
Italy
Italy:

19

Italy:

36

Italy:

4

Italy:

5

Italy:

3

Italy:

3

Italy:

2

Italy:

15

 87
Luxembourg
Luxembourg:

2

Luxembourg:

2

Luxembourg:

1

Luxembourg:

1

 6
Netherlands
Netherlands:

7

Netherlands:

9

Netherlands:

10

Netherlands:

2

Netherlands:

1

Netherlands:

2

 31
Portugal
Portugal:

10

Portugal:

9

Portugal:

3

Portugal:

3

 25
Spain
Spain:

21

Spain:

29

Spain:

2

Spain:

9

Spain:

3

 64
Sweden
Sweden:

7

Sweden:

5

Sweden:

3

Sweden:

3

Sweden:

4

 22
United Kingdom
United Kingdom:

61

United Kingdom:

17

United Kingdom:

3

United Kingdom:

1

United Kingdom:

1

United Kingdom:

2

United Kingdom:

1

United Kingdom:

1

 87
European Union
European Union:

214

European Union:

201

European Union:

42

European Union:

34

European Union:

34

European Union:

27

European Union:

21

European Union:

15

European Union:

38

 626
Distribution of political groups in the European Parliament by country
Country
PSE
PPE
ELDR
GUE/NGL
UPE
V
ARE
I-EDN
NI
Total of seats
Austria AT 6 7 1 1 6 21
Belgium BE 6 7 6 2 1 3 25
Denmark DK 4 3 5 4 16
Finland FI 4 4 5 2 1 16
France FR 16 13 1 7 17 12 8 13 87
Germany DE 40 47 12 99
Greece EL 10 9 4 2 25
Ireland IE 1 4 1 7 2 15
Italy IT 19 36 4 5 3 3 2 15 87
Luxembourg LU 2 2 1 1 6
Netherlands NL 7 9 10 2 1 2 31
Portugal PT 10 9 3 3 25
Spain ES 21 29 2 9 3 64
Sweden SE 7 5 3 3 4 22
United Kingdom UK 61 17 3 1 1 2 1 1 87
European Union EU 214 201 42 34 34 27 21 15 38 626

According to Parliament's rules of procedure, a political group shall consist of at least 23 Members elected in at least seven Member States.

Seats by political group and country - 1994-1999
Outgoing Parliament

Distribution of the selected political group in the European Parliament by country
Country Total of seats

Source: European Parliament

Political groups in the European Parliament

  • PSE - Group of the Party of European Socialists
  • PPE - Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group)
  • ELDR - Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party
  • GUE/NGL - Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left
  • UPE - Group Union for Europe
  • V - The Green Group in the European Parliament
  • ARE - Group of the European Radical Alliance
  • I-EDN - Group of Independents for a Europe of Nations
  • NI - Non-attached Members

Type of results:

Projection: The projection of the European Parliament is an estimate of its composition resulting from the elections, established by Verian as an aggregation of available election results, estimates or polling data published in the Member States after voting has finished. Without prejudice to the composition of the newly elected Parliament, the projection is based on the structure of the outgoing Parliament.

Provisional: Composition of the European Parliament based on available provisional or final national results published after voting has finished in all Member States, based on the structure of the outgoing Parliament.

Constitutive session: Results as officially announced by the newly-elected European Parliament after verification of its Members' eligibility criteria.

Outgoing Parliament: European Parliament configured as in the last parliamentary session of the ongoing legislature.