2004 European Parliament election in Germany

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All 99 German seats in the European Parliament Turnout43.0%

	First party	Second party	Third party
Party	CDU/CSU	SPD	Greens
Alliance	EPP-ED	PES	G/EFA
Seats before	53	33	7
Seats won	49	23	13
Seat change	Decrease4	Decrease10	Increase6
Popular vote	11,476,897	5,547,971	3,079,728
Percentage	44.5%	21.5%	11.9%
Swing	Decrease4.2%	Decrease9.2%	Increase5.5%
	Fourth party	Fifth party
Party	PDS	FDP
Alliance	GUE-NGL	ALDE
Seats before	6	0
Seats won	7	7
Seat change	Increase1	Increase7
Popular vote	1,579,109	1,565,431
Percentage	6.1%	6.1%
Swing	Increase0.3%	Increase3.0

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The election of MEPs representing Germany constituency for the 2004–2009 term of the European Parliament was held on 13 June 2004.^[1]

The elections saw a heavy defeat for the ruling Social Democratic Party, which polled its lowest share of the vote since World War II. More than half of this loss, however, went to other parties of the left, particularly the Greens. The votes of the opposition conservative parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, also fell, though not as sharply as the SPD's. The liberal Free Democratic Party improved its vote and gained representation.

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
EPP-ED	Christian Democratic Union	9,412,997	36.51	40	–3
PES	Social Democratic Party	5,547,971	21.52	23	–10
G/EFA	Alliance 90/The Greens	3,079,728	11.94	13	+6
EPP-ED	Christian Social Union	2,063,900	8.00	9	–1
GUE-NGL	Party of Democratic Socialism	1,579,109	6.12	7	+1
ALDE	Free Democratic Party	1,565,431	6.07	7	+7
NI	The Republicans	485,662	1.88	0	0
NI	Human Environment Animal Protection Party	331,388	1.29	0	0
NI	The Grays – Gray Panthers	314,402	1.22	0	0
NI	Family Party of Germany	268,468	1.04	0	0
NI	National Democratic Party	241,743	0.94	0	0
NI	Ecological Democratic Party	145,537	0.56	0	0
NI	Feminist Party of Germany	145,312	0.56	0	0
NI	From now on... Alliance for Germany List	135,015	0.52	0	New
NI	Party of Bible-abiding Christians	98,651	0.38	0	0
NI	Action Independent Candidates	70,301	0.27	0	New
NI	German Party	62,005	0.24	0	New
NI	Christian Centre	46,037	0.18	0	0
NI	Departure for Civil Rights, Freedom and Health	43,128	0.17	0	New
NI	German Communist Party	37,160	0.14	0	New
NI	Bavaria Party	35,152	0.14	0	0
NI	Centre Party	26,803	0.10	0	0
NI	Party for Social Equality	25,795	0.10	0	New
NI	Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität	21,983	0.09	0	0
Total				25,783,678	100.00	99	0
Valid votes				25,783,678	97.21
Invalid/blank votes				739,426	2.79
Total votes				26,523,104	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				61,682,394	43.00
Source: Federal Statistics Office

• CDU/CSU vote
  CDU/CSU vote
• SPD vote
  SPD vote
• Green vote
  Green vote
• PDS vote
  PDS vote
• FDP vote
  FDP vote
• REP vote
  REP vote
• Familien-Partei vote
  Familien-Partei vote

Results for each party by state.^[2]

State	Union	SPD	Grüne	PDS	FDP	Others
Baden-Württemberg	47.4	19.6	14.4	1.1	6.8	10.7
Bavaria	57.4	15.3	11.7	0.9	4.2	10.6
Berlin	26.4	19.2	22.8	14.4	5.3	12.0
Brandenburg (formerly part of East Germany)	24.0	20.5	7.8	30.9	4.7	12.1
Bremen	28.0	30.5	22.3	3.7	6.3	9.3
Hamburg	36.7	25.3	24.6	2.8	5.5	5.2
Hesse	41.2	24.5	15.0	2.1	7.6	9.5
Lower Saxony	45.5	27.8	12.1	1.8	6.3	6.4
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (formerly part of East Germany)	42.4	16.1	4.8	21.7	3.9	11.1
North Rhine-Westphalia	44.9	25.7	12.6	2.1	7.5	7.2
Rhineland-Palatinate	47.4	25.7	9.1	1.2	6.5	10.2
Saarland	44.6	30.0	7.8	2.0	4.5	11.1
Saxony (formerly part of East Germany)	36.5	11.9	6.1	23.5	5.2	16.8
Saxony-Anhalt (formerly part of East Germany)	34.3	18.5	4.5	23.7	5.6	13.5
Schleswig-Holstein	47.0	25.4	13.2	1.8	6.3	6.3
Thuringia (formerly part of East Germany)	37.8	15.4	5.5	25.3	4.2	11.8

• Europawahl 2004 - Der Bundeswahlleiter