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Current Election Trend of the political groups in the European Parliament

The bars show the current state of the Election Trend. Election Trend by political group (as of 2 October 2026)

EPP
25.8
S&D
14.8
PfE
13.2
ECR
11.1
RE
8.2
LEFT
7.1
ESN
6.5
G/EFA
4.0
NI
1.8
Other
7.5

Winners of the last 3 months

  1. Patriots +1.0
  2. Left +0.7
  3. S&D +0.3
  4. ECR +0.3
  5. Greens +0.1

Losers of the last 3 months

  1. EPP -0.8
  2. RE -0.4
  3. ESN -0.1

All political groups in the European Parliament

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Seat projection: what each political group is made of

Hover over a political group or open a row to see which national parties it is made up of.

722
Total Seats
political group Seats Share
EPP 186 25.8%
S&D 107 14.8%
Patriots 96 13.3%
ECR 79 10.9%
RE 60 8.3%
Left 51 7.1%
ESN 47 6.5%
Greens 28 3.9%
Non-Inscrits 13 1.8%
  • KKP · Poland 5
  • FvD · Netherlands 3
  • SMER · Slovakia 3
  • ADR · Luxembourg 1
  • HLAS · Slovakia 1
Non-attached 55 7.6%

How is the seat projection calculated?
The European Parliament is not elected in one vote but in 27 national elections – and the seat projection follows the same logic. For each member state, the current Election Trend is projected onto that country's seat quota, applying the seat allocation method and the electoral threshold that apply there for European elections. Each national party's seats are then assigned to the European political group it belongs to; parties without a group appear as non-attached. Added together, the result is Parliament's 96 seats. This is a projection of today's Election Trend, not the actual composition of Parliament: individual members switching groups and member states without a current Election Trend are not taken into account.
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Majorities in the European Parliament

0
33
49
64
0 96
Blocking minority 33 Majority 49 Qualified majority (2/3) 64

Parties

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Projected composition of Parliament

Based on the Election Trend, 9 political groups would hold seats in the European Parliament: EPP with 186 seats, S&D with 107 seats, Patriots with 95 seats, ECR with 80 seats, RE with 59 seats, Left with 51 seats, ESN with 47 seats, Greens with 29 seats and Non-Inscrits with 13 seats.

Member states by political group

On the left, the political group of the strongest party in the Election Trend; on the right, the group of the leading governing party. Hover over a country to read it. The table combines both: in how many member states a political group governs, in how many it leads the Election Trend, and how far the two diverge.

Strongest party in the Election Trend

Each country is colored by the party that leads in its current Election Trend.

Leading governing party

Each country is coloured by the party leading its government.

political group Government Election Trend Development
EPP 12 10 -2
S&D 5 6 +1
ECR 2 3 +1
Patriots 1 3 +2
RE 4 1 -3
ESN 0 1 +1
Left 0 1 +1
Non-Inscrits 1 0 -1

How the political groups have moved in the Election Trend

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Results of the most recent European elections

Historical election results at a glance

EU candidate countries: where they stand on membership

Open a country to see which parties stand behind each camp.

Europhile Eurosceptic
Albania 98.6 % 0.0 %
Ukraine 79.0 % 5.6 %
Montenegro 78.5 % 0.0 %
Moldova 57.9 % 27.3 %
Georgia 38.1 % 58.6 %
North Macedonia 36.9 % 11.5 %
Turkey 30.8 % 17.5 %

The European Parliament in numbers

Seats
96
Member States
27
political groups
9

How is the European Parliament elected?
The European Parliament is elected directly every five years – not in a single vote, however, but in 27 national elections held within a few days of each other. Each member state has a fixed quota of seats, allocated degressively proportional to its population: of the 96 seats, Germany holds the most, while Malta, Luxembourg and Cyprus hold the fewest. Every country votes under proportional representation, but electoral thresholds differ from state to state.

What is a political group in the European Parliament?
Voters elect national parties – inside Parliament, those parties join forces in political groups. A political group needs at least 23 members from at least a quarter of the member states. That is why a single party's Election Trend says little about the balance of power in Strasbourg: only the political group it sits in turns national votes into European majorities. Members whose party belongs to no group sit as non-attached.

How do majorities form in the European Parliament?
There is no fixed governing coalition. A simple decision requires a majority of the votes cast, while many legislative procedures require a majority of all members – with 96 seats, that means at least 49 votes. Majorities are therefore rebuilt file by file, usually from the political groups of the centre; once a bloc grows beyond a third of the seats, it can block qualified majorities.

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