The EU Election Results Explained

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EU Election results are in! Discover which political groups gained the most seats and who faced major setbacks in this year's EU Parliament elections. Join us as we break down the key winners, losers, and what this means for the future of European politics.

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[EUMadeSimple]

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Mistakes:
ID + ECR = 130 seats. Making them 3rd biggest

[stjepan_]

Backing up Merkel's shutting down of the nukes and putting coal plants into action sure did the Greens in Germany a huge favour. The whole environmental premise going out of the chimney.

[jorgegutierrez]

You forgot to mention that a great deal (if not most) of the parties in the Non-Inscrits group are right-wing or at least nationalist/socially conservative. There's AfD (🇩🇪), Fidesz and Mi Hazánk (🇭🇺), Konfederacja (🇵🇱), Smer and Republika (🇸🇰), Se Acabó la Fiesta (🇪🇦), etc. Whether they'll stay unaligned or eventually join a European group (ECR or ID) is up to guess, but in any case that's a larger part of the rightward shift that happened in these elections, which might not be so noticeable at first glance.

[Lumina.Necreată]

You know, I actually respect the complete lack of bias in this video and the way you objectively presented each European group. Keep it up!

[deepinthewoods]

What to read into this? The strongest pro-EU parties lost and the most EU-sceptic parties won, but all-in-all the European parliament is still overwhelmingly dominated by parties who believe in the EU project ... but don't want the EU to meddle with their lives too much

[Jules.C.]

The Belgian prime minister didn't resign due to his party's horrible results. We also had national and regional elections, so he had to resign. But now he's still prime minister of "lopende zaken" until a new coalition is formed.

[jonathancollard]

Great summary; and no political spin, just the facts. Well done 👍

[charlievr]

Wow, you really worked the entire night!😂

[franciscouderq]

Macron calling for elections is a big gamble, I reckon. He might be ok in foreign policy but domestically he is not a top strategist.

[fabulously]

slightly misleading- macron didn't call for a general "French election". His job is safe until 2027, he called for a parliamentary election. Parliament is changing.

[giorgioortiz]

Also you have a slight mistake it seems. Assuming no other national party changes, if ECR (72 seats) joins with ID (58 seats), they would have 130 total seats, not 140. This would make them the third largest group, not the second largest.

[Jompabompa]

Election participation here in sweden was horrible.

[bionicle]

This video is great, keep us updated in the future

[Masterlewger]

I was expecting to see a new video in the day, but not first thing in the morning!!! Wow!

[renaatsenechal]

@EUMadeSimple due to wrong translation, most international media mistakenly state that Belgium's prime minister resigned. We also had national elections on the same day, so his tenure has simply ended, regardless of the actual results.

[Autoblindo_Sabauda]

This was the first time I voted. Here's how it went: they gave me a random pen instead of the certified electoral pencil, they gave me the wrong voter card and wrote in the electoral register that I voted on June 7th. But it was June 8th. Let's start well.



(I used google translate, sorry)

[SP]

you did indeed spent all night on this video

[GabrielCazorlaPersson]

I feel like this election is pointless... People are not voting for the European Groups, most people have no idea of what the proposals are, people are just voting whoever they vote on a national level, so what we have is an average of the political spectrum of the whole European Union that actually went to the polls. We need real democracy...

Case in point: Renew Europe in Spain is represented just by a nationalist vasque group and a political party (Ciudadanos) who basically originated in Cataluña, tried to go to the national elections, and miserably failed a few years later with 0 seats. I would have liked to vote but it was impossible to for me, since I moved to the Netherlands just after the registration to vote in another country closed and it is not straight forward to do. It's a shame.

[conorstapleton]

I am somewhat surprised the EPP did so well. Here in Austria the ÖVP took a heavy beating, losing 11% points.

[kimlaursen]

6000 subscribers left to 100.000! You did a got job during this elections @EUMadeSimple !