Election Day - European voting commences in Hesse without significant disruptions.
This Sunday, around 7000 polling stations across the country opened for the European election. A representative from Wiesbaden's state election office shared this information. From 8am to 6pm, around 4.85 million voters in Hesse had the chance to vote on the distribution of seats in the European Parliament.
Eligible voters include around 100,000 youths aged 16 or 17, who are allowed to participate in a state-wide election for the first time in Hesse. The ballots include 34 parties and other political organizations. Approximately 55,000 election workers are assisting with the Hessian European election.
The nationwide and Hessian election results will not be announced until 11pm, as polling stations in Italy will not close until then. These results serve as an indicator for parties in terms of German deputies' representation in the European Parliament.
720 EU deputies will be elected, and Germany currently has 96 representatives in the European Parliament, both in Strasbourg and Brussels. In the 2019 Hessian European election, seven politicians and politicians from Hesse were elected: two from the CDU, one from the Greens, one from the SPD, one from the AfD, one from the FDP, and one from the Free Voters.
In the Hessian European election in 2019, the CDU received 25.8% of the votes, while the Greens garnered 23.4%. The SPD achieved 18.4% of voter support, the AfD had 9.9%, the FDP earned 6.4%, and the Left won 4.4%. In the 2014 election, the Hessian voter turnout was 58.4%.
