50.5% of European went to the polls for the 2019 European elections, the European Parliament announced on Sunday 26 May at the end of the election, 8 points more than in 2014 (42.61%).
This rate is the hightest in 20 years and has risen for the first time since the 1979 elections, when turnout was 61.99%. Since these first elections by universal suffrage 40 years ago, voter turnout has been steadily declining.
This participation “shows that people have realised the importance of the...