1979 European Parliament election

First election to the European Parliament May 2014 May 2014 1979 European Parliament election European Union parliamentary no 1984 European Parliament election 1984 All 410 seats to the European Parliament 206 114,340,366 / 184,414,900 (62.0%) Members elected 7–10 June 1979 Ernest Glinne MEP 1979 (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Ernest Glinne fr Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Belgium (French) 113 410 Socialist Group 29,530,418 26.62% Egon Klepsch MEP portrait 1979.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Egon Klepsch European People's Party Germany 107 410 European People's Party 31,355,631 28.26% James Scott-Hopkins MEP portrait 1979 (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 James Scott-Hopkins European Democrats Hereford and Worcester 64 410 European Democrats 6,878,970 6.20% Giorgio Amendola 1972.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Giorgio Amendola Communists and Allies Central Italy 44 410 Communists and Allies 14,908,281 13.44% Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F052010-0020, Kiel, FDP-Bundesparteitag, Bangemann.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Martin Bangemann European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Germany 40 410 European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party 11,520,616 10.38% Christian de La Malène during a session in Luxembourg in October 1978 (Cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Christian de La Malène European Progressive Democrats France 22 410 European Progressive Democrats 4,114,969 3.71% 1979 European Parliament election, political grouping breakdown by countries.svg 400px Post-election composition of each member state's delegation President of the European Parliament President of the European Parliament Simone Veil European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group The 1979 European Parliament election was a series of parliamentary elections held across all 9 (at the time) European Community member states. They were the first European elections to be held, allowing citizens to elect 410 MEPs to the European Parliament, and also the first international election in history. Seats in the Parliament had been allocated to the states according to population, and in some cases were divided into constituencies, but members sat according to political groups. Background The Treaty of Rome which established the Communities specified that the European Parliament must be elected by universal suffrage using a common voting system. The Council of the European Union was responsible for setting up the elections but it had procrastinated. As a stop-gap measure, members were appointed to the Parliament by the member states from their own national parliaments, as they had done since the Common Assembly. Hoskyns Catherine Michael Newman Democratizing the European Union: Issues for the twenty-first Century (Perspectives on Democratization Manchester University Press 2000 978-0-7190-5666-6 The Parliament was unhappy with this and threatened to take the Council to the European Court of Justice. The Council eventually agreed to elections and the first European Parliament elections were held in 1979 after proposals were put forward in the mid-1970s.http://aei.pitt.edu/1922/01/EP_election_decision.pdf Patijn Report The issue of a common voting method was left undecided, and even to this day the voting methods vary from member state to member state, although all have used some form of proportional representation since 1999. Campaigns thumb|left|Helmut Schmidt on the campaign trail in 1979 The campaigns varied. The former Social Democrat German Chancellor Willy Brandt took an international campaign to France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to boost the Socialist group. On the other hand, the former Prime Minister of France Jacques Chirac used the election to gauge his popularity against the then-President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, in anticipation of a presidential bid in 1981.Electing a New Parliament, Time Magazine 11 June 1979 Election In June, the 410 members were elected by universal suffrage. At the time there were no rules on the system of election to be used. The United Kingdom used a plurality voting system for multiple small constituencies in Great Britain but the other member states used proportional representation for fewer larger constituencies (usually the member state itself as a single constituency), albeit with different methods of seat allocation. The electorate took little interest but average voter turnout was 63%. The lowest turn out was in the United Kingdom with 32.2%: all others were above 50% apart from Denmark. Aside from Belgium and Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory, the highest turnout was in Italy with 84.9%.Rates of participation in European elections (1979–2004) on CVCE website Result Socialist parties working together under the Europe-wide Confederation of Socialist Parties won the most seats: the resultant Socialist group had 113 MEPs. Christian Democrat parties united within the pan-European European People's Party came second, with the resultant group having 107 MEPs. The largest third force was the Conservative European Democrats with 64, followed by Communists with 44. The Liberal Democrats had 40 seats, although their candidate was elected as President. The groups formed were loose coalitions based on the groups founded in previous years, but they soon became the basis for modern European political parties. +National distribution of seatsStateSeatsStateSeats81818181252416156  Group of the European People's Party (EPP) 12 Christian Democracy (Italy) (DC) 12774320 29 Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)Including two indirectly elected members from West Berlin 10883085 34 Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) 2817120 8 Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) 2017743 10 Union for French Democracy (UDF)Only members of UDF who were part of the EPP group Marius Autran and Jean-Claude Autran http://jcautran.free.fr/archives_familiales/elections/europeennes/1979/europeennes_1979.html#21 Elections européennes du 10 juin 1979 (1ère législature) jcautran.free.fr 25 June 2024https://www.france-politique.fr/elections-parlement-europeen-1979.htm Élections européennes 1979 Laurent de Boissieu www.france-politique.fr France Politique 25 June 2024https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1569/OLIVIER_LEFEVRE+D%27ORMESSON/history/1#detailedcardmep Olivier LEFEVRE D'ORMESSON www.europarl.europa.eu 5 August 1918 European Parliament 25 June 2024 1851460 8 Christian People's Party (Flanders) (CVP) 1607941 7 Christian Social Party (Wallonia) (PSC) 445912 3 Fine Gael 443652 4 Christian Social People's Party (Luxembourg) (CSV) 352296 3 South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) 196373 1 Christian Democrats (Denmark)https://lipari.istat.it/digibib/Bollettino%20mensile%20di%20statistica/Supplemento/SMS%201984%20N.19%20-Elezioni%20del%20parlamento%20europeo%20-%2017-6-1984.pdf ELECTION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 17 JUNE 1984 (in Italian) lipari.istat.it ISTAT 25 June 2024 30985 0 33420887 107 Socialist Group (SOC) 14 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)Including one indirectly elected member from West Berlin 11370045 35 Socialist Party (France) (PS) – Movement of Radicals of the Left (MRG) 4763026 22 Labour Party (UK) 4253247 17 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 3866946 9 Labour Party (Netherlands) (PvdA) 1722240 9 Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) 1514272 4 Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) (BSP) 698889 3 Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) (PSB) 575824 4 Social Democrats (Denmark) 382487 3 Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) 211106 1 Labour Party (Ireland) 193898 4 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) 140622 1 Siumut 5118 1 29697720 113 Communists and Allies Group (COM) 8 Italian Communist Party (PCI) 10361344 24 French Communist Party (PCF) 4153710 19 Communist Party of Belgium (KPB/PCB) 145796 0 German Communist Party (DKP) 112055 0 Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN)https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/person/5124/hartog-wessel-com-nl HARTOG, Wessel (COM, NL) www.europarl.europa.eu European Parliament 25 June 2024 97343 0 Socialist People's Party (Denmark) (SF) 81991 1 Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL) 48813 0 15001052 44 Liberal and Democratic Group (LD) 12 Union for French Democracy (UDF) 3815524 17 Liberal Party (UK)Dimitri Almeida The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus https://books.google.com/books?id=oD7bKbo0FYEC&pg=PA102 2012 Taylor & Francis 978-1-136-34039-0 102–103 1690638 0 Free Democratic Party (Germany) (FDP) 1662621 4 Italian Liberal Party (PLI) 1271159 3 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) 914787 4 Italian Republican Party (PRI) 896139 2 Party for Freedom and Progress (Flanders) (PVV) 512363 2 Liberal Reformist Party (Wallonia) (PRL) 372904 2 Democratic Party (Luxembourg) (DP) 274307 2 Venstre (Denmark) 252767 3 Thomas Joseph Maher (Independent from Ireland)https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1437/THOMAS+JOSEPH_MAHER/history/1#detailedcardmep Thomas Joseph MAHER www.europarl.europa.eu 29 April 1922 European Parliament 25 June 2024https://irelandelection.com/election.php?elecid=213&constitid=477&electype=7 Munster: 1979 European Election irelandelection.com 25 June 2024 86208 1 #D3D3D3 11749467 40 European Democratic Group (ED) 5 Conservative Party (UK) 6508492 60 Conservative People's Party (Denmark) (DKF)http://www.europarl.dk/ressource/static/files/Medlemskatalog_screen.pdf List of Danish MEPs (in Danish) on Wayback Machine www.europarl.dk European Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20120331191903/http://www.europarl.dk/ressource/static/files/Medlemskatalog_screen.pdf 25 June 2024 31 March 2012 245309 2 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) 125169 1 Centre Democrats (Denmark) (CD) 107790 1 6986760 64 Group of European Progressive Democrats (EPD) 5 Rally for the Republic (France) (RPR) 3301980 15 Fianna Fáil 464451 5 Scottish National Party (SNP) 247836 1 Progress Party (Denmark) (FrP) 100702 1 4114969 22 Group for the Technical Coordination and Defence of Independent Groups and Members (CDI) 7 Radical Party (Italy) (PR) 1285065 3 Proletarian Unity Party (Italy) (PdUP) 406656 1 People's Movement against the EEC (Denmark) 365760 4 People's Union (Flanders) (VU) 324540 1 Proletarian Democracy (DP) 252342 1 Independent Fianna Fáil 81522 1 2715885 11 Non-Inscrits (NI) 5 Italian Social Movement (MSI) 1909055 4 Democrats 66 (D66) 511967 2 Democratic Front of Francophones–Walloon Rally (DéFI-RW) 414603 2 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) 170688 1 3006313 9 Other parties and independents 5154957 0 Belgian Elections, Folketingsårbog, France Politique, jcautran.free.fr, France Politique, ElectionsIreland.org, Irish Elections, Italian Ministry of the Interior, Public.lu, Kiesraad, UK Parliament Briefing, House of Commons Library, CAIN Archive, Federal Statistics Office, Wahlen-in-Deutschland.de, Europe Politique +1979 European Parliament election – Groups at 17 July 1979Grouphttp://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1979.htm Parlement européen 1979 - Parlement élu en 1979 fr www.europe-politique.eu http://aei.pitt.edu/5765/01/003730_1.pdf Elections Europeennes fr https://web.archive.org/web/20080911085807/http://aei.pitt.edu/5765/01/003730_1.pdf 2008-09-11http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/groland/pubs/HNR-Democracy_in_the_EP-11July05.pdf Democracy in the European Parliament emlab.berkeley.eduhttp://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/eurodata/Hix-Noury-Roland-Power%20to%20the%20Parties-7jan.pdf Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20080911085750/http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/eurodata/Hix-Noury-Roland-Power%20to%20the%20Parties-7jan.pdf 11 September 2008 DescriptionChaired byMEPs  SOCSocial DemocratsErnest Glinne113 250px  EPPChristian DemocratsEgon Klepsch107  EDConservativesJames Scott-Hopkins64  COMCommunists and the Far LeftGiorgio Amendola44  LDLiberals and Liberal DemocratsMartin Bangemann40  EPDNational ConservativesChristian de La Malène22  CDIHeterogeneousMarco PannellaNeil BlaneyJens-Peter Bonde11  NIIndependentsnone9Total: 410 Votes summary #ddd 515px 350px EPP #3399FF 29.88 SOC #FF0000 26.55 COM #990000 13.41 LD #FFFF00 10.50 ED #3099DB 6.25 EPD #4F6BA2 3.68 NI #DDDDDD 2.69 CDI #808080 2.43 Others gray 4.61 Seats summary #ddd 515px 350px SOC #FF0000 27.56 EPP #3399FF 26.10 ED #3099DB 15.61 COM #990000 10.73 LD #FFFF00 9.76 EPD #4F6BA2 5.37 CDI #808080 2.68 NI #DDDDDD 2.20 Result by country GroupNationSOCEPPEDCOMLDEPDCDINITotalBelgium4 PS 3 SP7 CVP 3 PSC2 PVV 2 PRL1 VU2 FDF 24Denmark3 A 1 Siu1 D2 C1 SF3 V1 FP4 N 16France22 PS+MRG8 UDF19 PCF17 UDF15 RPR81Ireland4 LAB4 FG1 Ind.5 FF1 Ind. FF 15Italy9 PSI 4 PSDI29 DC 1 SVP 24 PCI3 PLI 2 PRI3 PR 1 PdUP 1 DP4 MSI81Luxembourg1 LSAP3 CSV2 DP 6Netherlands9 PvdA10 CDA4 VVD2 D6625United Kingdom17 LAB 1 SDLP60 CON 1 UUP1 SNP1 DUP81West Germany35 SPD34 CDU 8 CSU4 FDP 81Total11310764444022119410 Post election thumb|left|upright=0.7|Simone Veil, elected as the first female President Louise Weiss, who was born in 1893 and thus 86 at the time, was found to be Parliament's oldest member and hence presided over the chamber while the election of the President took place (July 1979). Before that could happen however, she immediately had to deal with Ian Paisley MEP who, in the first speech of the session, protested that the British flag outside the building was flying upside down.Matthew Tempest and agencies Paisley to stand down as MEP, The Guardian, 19 January 2004 She dealt with the interruption swiftly.How? Did she climb the flagpole and fixed it? The confrontation was seen as one of her finest hours and she later confided that, as a grandmother, she was used to dealing with "recalcitrant youngsters".A number of names worth remembering ..., European Voice, 26 November 1998 There were five candidates for President of the European Parliament: Giorgio Amendola, Italian Communist; Emma Bonino, Italian Technical Independent; Christian de La Malène, French Progressive Democrat; Simone Veil, French Liberal, and Mario Zagari, Italian Socialist.Election of the President of the European Parliament, European Parliament In the first ballot, Veil secured 183 of the 380 votes cast – eight short of the absolute majority needed. The next closest contender was Zagari with 118 votes, then Amendola with 44, de la Malène with 26 and Bonino with 9. Bonino and de la Malène dropped out and Veil secured an absolute majority in the second ballot with 192 of the 377 votes cast (Zagari gained 128 and Amendola 47). Veil was elected as the first President of the elected Parliament, and first female President of the Parliament since it was founded in 1952. The following were elected as Vice-Presidents: Danielle De March, Basil de Ferranti, Bruno Friedrich, Guido Gonella, Gérard Jacquet, Hans Katzer, Poul Møller, Pierre Pflimlin, Bríd Rodgers, Marcel Albert Vandewiele, Anne Vondeling and Mario Zagari. Previously the Parliament was a weak consultative assembly, the members of which were part-time. With the elections the new body of MEPs were full-time, energetic and more diverse. As soon as the Parliament was established the "old guard" MEPs of the larger parties sought to raise the bar at which a European Parliament political group could be formed (the status gave financial support and representation in committees). This move was quickly blocked by smaller groups working together and filibustering the proposal. The ties formed at this time laid the foundations of the Rainbow group: an alliance of left-wing and green parties which later became the European Greens–European Free Alliance group. Statistics + European Parliament election, 1979 – Electoral map at 17 July 1979center|European Parliament election, 1979 - electoral mapKeyGroupDescription  SOCSocial Democrats  EPPChristian Democrats  EDConservatives  COMCommunists and the Far Left  LDLiberals and Liberal Democrats  EPDNational Conservatives  CDIHeterogeneous  NIIndependents + European Parliament election, 1979 - StatisticsAreaDatesSeatsElectorateTurnoutPreviousNextElection methodsSourcesEuropean Community(EC-9)7, 10 June 1979410191,783,52863%Inaugural1981All PR, except UK (not NI)which used FPTPhttp://aei.pitt.edu/5174/01/000469_1.pdf Elections 1989 - Results and members https://web.archive.org/web/20090325013535/http://aei.pitt.edu/5174/01/000469_1.pdf 2009-03-25http://aei.pitt.edu/5181/01/000475_1.pdf Election '79 - Voting figures and winners https://web.archive.org/web/20080819213513/http://aei.pitt.edu/5181/01/000475_1.pdf 2008-08-19http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/results1306/turnout_ep/turnout_table.html Turnout trends at European elections 2004 European Parliament + European Parliament election, 1979 - Timelinehttp://aei.pitt.edu/5182/01/000476_1.pdf Elections '79 - The results https://web.archive.org/web/20110517080438/http://aei.pitt.edu/5182/1/000476_1.pdf 2011-05-17Appointed Parliament 1979 ElectionRegrouping First ParliamentGroups Pre-elections13 February 1978 ChangeResults7 July ChangeResults17 JulyNewGroupsFirst session17 July  SOC 63 +48 111 +2 113  SOC 113  CD 52 +54 106 +1 107  EPP 107  C 18 +45 63 +1 64  ED 64  COM 17 +27 44 +0 44  COM 44  LD 24 +17 41 -1 40  LD 40   EPD 19 +2 21 +1 22   EPD 22 NI3+2124 +11 11  CDI 11 -15 9  NI 9Total 196 +214 410 +0 410Total 410 + European Parliament election, 1979 - Delegation at 17 July 1979GroupDescriptionDetails%MEPs  SOCSocial DemocratsWest Germany 35, Belgium 7, Denmark 4, France 22, Ireland 4, Italy 13, Luxembourg 1, Netherlands 9, UK 18 28%113  EPPChristian DemocratsWest Germany 42, Belgium 10, France 8, Ireland 4, Italy 30, Luxembourg 3, Netherlands 1026%107  EDConservativesDenmark 3, UK 6116%64  COMCommunists and the Far LeftDenmark 1, France 19, Italy 2411%44  LDLiberals and Liberal DemocratsWest Germany 4, Belgium 4, Denmark 3, France 17, Ireland 1, Italy 5, Luxembourg 2, Netherlands 410%40  EPDNational ConservativesDenmark 1, France 15, Ireland 5, UK 15%22  CDIHeterogeneousBelgium 1, Denmark 4, Ireland 1, Italy 53%11  NIIndependentsBelgium 2, Italy 4, Netherlands 2, UK 12%9 + European Parliament election, 1979 - Votes by national party at unknown 1979 datehttp://www.pre.gva.es/pls/argos_elec/DMEDB_ElecAgrupaPaises.informeElec?aVAgrupaId=UE&aVLengua=v Arxiu Històric Electoral - Unió Europea https://web.archive.org/web/20120621030522/http://www.pre.gva.es/pls/argos_elec/DMEDB_ElecAgrupaPaises.informeElec?aVAgrupaId=UE&aVLengua=v 2012-06-21, with exception of some UK resultsCountryPartyAbbr.GroupVotes% (nat.)SeatsItaly Christian Democracy DCEPP 12,753,708 36.45 29 Social Democratic Party of Germany SPDSOC 11,370,045 40.83 35 Christian Democratic Union CDUEPP 10,883,085 39.08 34Italy Italian Communist Party PCICOM 10,345,284 29.57 24United Kingdom Conservative Party CP ED 6,508,493 48.40 60France Union for French Democracy UDFLD 5,666,984 27.87 25France Socialist Party – Movement of Left Radicals PS-MRGSOC 4,763,026 23.43 22United Kingdom Labour Party LP SOC 4,253,207 31.63 17France French Communist Party PCFCOM 4,153,710 20.43 19Italy Italian Socialist Party PSISOC 3,858,295 11.03 9France Rally for the Republic RPREPD 3,301,980 16.24 15 Christian Social Union of Bavaria CSU EPP 2,817,120 10.12 8 Christian Democratic Appeal CDAEPP 2,017,743 35.60 10Italy Italian Social Movement MSINI 1,907,880 5.45 4 Labour Party PvdASOC 1,722,240 30.39 9United Kingdom Liberal Party L 1,691,531 12.58 Free Democratic Party FDPLD 1,662,621 5.97 4 Christian People's Party CVPEPP 1,607,941 29.54 7Italy Italian Democratic Socialist Party PSDISOC 1,512,425 4.32 4Italy Radical Party PRCDI 1,283,512 3.67 3Italy Italian Liberal Party PLILD 1,270,152 3.63 3 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy VVDLD 914,787 16.14 4Italy Italian Republican Party PRILD 895,558 2.56 2 The Greens GRÜNE 893,683 3.21 France Ecological Europe VERTS 891,683 4.39 Socialist Party SPSOC 698,889 12.84 3France Workers' Struggle – Revolutionary Communist League LO-LCR 623,663 3.07 Socialist Party PSSOC 575,824 10.58 4 Party for Freedom and Progress PVVLD 512,363 9.41 2 Democracy 66 D66NI 511,967 9.03 2 Fianna Fáil FFEPD 464,451 34.68 5 Christian Social Party PSCEPP 445,912 8.19 3 Fine Gael FGEPP 443,652 33.13 4 Democratic Front of Francophones FDFNI 414,603 7.62 2Italy Proletarian Unity Party PdUPCDI 406,007 1.16 1 Social Democrats SSOC 382,487 21.80 3France 5th List: Employment. Equality. Europe 5-EEE 373,259 1.84 Liberal Reformist Party PRLLD 372,904 6.85 2 People's Movement against the EU FolkeBCDI 365,760 20.85 4 Christian Social People's Party CSVEPP 352,296 36.12 3 People's Union VUCDI 324,540 5.96 1France Inter-Professional Union for anIndependent France in a Solidary Europe UDIP-FIDES 290,555 1.43 Democratic Party DPLD 274,307 28.12 2France Party of New Forces PFN 265,911 1.31 Venstre VLD 252,767 14.41 3Italy Proletarian Democracy DPCDI 251,927 0.72 1United Kingdom Scottish National Party SNPEPD 247,836 1.84 1 Conservative People's Party KFEPP 245,309 13.98 2 Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party LSAPSOC 211,106 21.64 1Italy South Tyrolean People's Party SVPEPP 196,277 0.56 1 Irish Labour Party ILPSOC 193,898 14.48 4 Independents Ind.NI 189,499 14.15 2United Kingdom Democratic Unionist Party DUPNI 170,688 1.27 1Italy Valdostan Union – Sardinian Action Party UV-PSd'Az 166,194 0.47 Communist Party of Belgium PCB-KPB 145,796 2.68 Italy National Democracy DN 142,354 0.41 United Kingdom Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLPSOC 140,622 1.05 1 Reformed Political Party SGP 126,412 2.23 United Kingdom Ulster Unionist Party UUPED 125,169 0.93 1United KingdomIndependentsInd. 112,366 N/A German Communist Party DKP 112,055 0.40 Confederated Ecologists ECOLO 107,833 1.98 Centre Democrats CDED 107,790 6.14 1 Progressive Party FPEPD 100,702 5.74 1 Communist Party of the Netherlands CPN 97,343 1.72 Pacifist Socialist Party PSP 97,243 1.72 Political Party of Radicals PPR 92,055 1.62 United Kingdom Plaid Cymru PC 83,399 0.62 Socialist People's Party SFCOM 81,991 4.67 1 Another way of Living AGALEV 77,986 1.43 Social Democratic Party SDP 68,289 7.00 Reformed Political League GPV 62,610 1.10 Justice League DR 60,954 3.47 Left Socialists VS 59,379 3.38 Radical Left RV 56,944 3.25 Communist Party of Luxembourg KPL 48,813 5.00 All Power to the Workers TPO-AMADA 45,423 0.83 Christian Bavarian People's Party CBV 45,311 0.16 Sinn Féin – The Workers Party SFWP 43,942 3.28 United Kingdom Alliance Party of Northern Ireland A 39,026 0.29 Flemish People's Party VVP 34,706 0.64 European Workers Party EAP 31,822 0.11 German Centre Party ZENTRUM 31,367 0.11 Christian People's Party KrF 30,985 1.77 United Kingdom United Against the Common MarketUACM 27,506 N/A Leschot List LL 24,903 0.44 E-NON E-NON 22,187 0.41 United Kingdom Ecology Party EP 17,953 0.13 PLW-PLE PLW-PLE 17,566 0.32 Workers Revolutionary League LRT-RAL 16,911 0.31United KingdomMebyon Kernow MK 10,205 N/A Alternative List AL 9,845 1.01 PPB PPB 9,704 0.18 PFU PFU 7,273 0.13 United Kingdom United Labour Party ULP 6,122 1.1 Liberal Party LP 5,610 0.58 Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP 5,085 0.52 POE POE 4,617 0.08 United KingdomWorkers' Party WP 4,418 0.8 United KingdomUnionist Party of Northern Ireland UPNI 3,712 0.6 CDI CDI 3,630 0.27 United Kingdom International Marxist GroupIMG 1,635 N/AUnited KingdomUlster Liberal Party ULP 932 0.2United Kingdom EFP EFP 497 N/A France Europe – Self-Management List PSU 382 0.00 France Regions-Europe RE 337 0.00 See also List of members of the European Parliament (1979–1984) History of the European Communities (1973–93) Eurodroite References External links The election of the Members of the European Parliament CVCE Full Election Details Europe Politique fr Speech by Simone Veil during the first session CVCE Category:1979 elections in Europe Category:June 1979 in Europe