2014 European Parliament election in Italy

2014 European Parliament election in Italy

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All 73 Italian seats to the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Turnout	57.22%[1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Matteo Renzi Beppe Grillo Silvio Berlusconi Party Democratic Party Five Star Movement Forza Italia Alliance S&D EFDD EPP Leader since 15 December 2013 4 October 2009 18 January 1994 Last election 26.1%, 21 seats new party 35.3% as PdL 29 seats Seats won 31 17 13 Seat change 10 17 16 Popular vote 11,203,231 5,807,362 4,614,364 Percentage 40.8% 21.2% 16.8% Swing 14.7% new 18.5%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Matteo Salvini Angelino Alfano Collective leadership Party Northern League NCD – UDC The Other Europe Alliance NI EPP GUE/NGL Leader since 7 December 2013 15 November 2013 — Last election 10.2%, 9 seats New New Seats won 5 3 3 Seat change 4 New New Popular vote 1,688,197 1,202,350 1,108,457 Percentage 6.2% 4.4% 4.0% Swing 4.0% New New
European election results map. Red denotes provinces with a Democratic plurality, Azure denotes those with a Forza Italia plurality, Green denotes those with a Lega Nord plurality, Gray denotes those with a Regionalist plurality.

The 2014 European Parliament election in Italy took place on 25 May 2014. Italy elected 73 MEPs out of 751 European Parliament seats.^[2]

The governing Democratic Party (PD) won the election with 40.8% of the vote and 31 seats, followed by the Five Star Movement (21.2% and 17 seats) and Forza Italia (16.8% and 13 seats). As a result, the PD was the second largest national party in the European Parliament by number of seats after the German CDU/CSU and the largest among the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.^[3] The PD's score was also the best result for an Italian party in a nationwide election since the 1958 general election, when the Christian Democracy won 42.4% of the vote.

The other parties that have passed the national electoral threshold at 4% are Northern League (6.2% and 5 seats), New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre (4.4% and 3 seats) and The Other Europe (4.0% and 3 seats). The parties that have not passed the electoral threshold and that have not gained any seat are Brothers of Italy (3.7%), European Greens – Green Italia (0.9%), European Choice (0.7%), Italy of Values (0.7%) and I Change – Associative Movement Italians Abroad (0.2%).

The 4% threshold can be bypassed by parties representing linguistic minorities, provided they get more than 50,000 votes, in connection with a party gaining more than 4% of the vote. The South Tyrolean People's Party, representing the German-speaking minority of South Tyrol, won a seat thanks to its connection with the PD.