| Election Name: | 1989 European Parliament election |
| Country: | European Union |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1984 European Parliament election |
| Previous Year: | 1984 |
| Previous Mps: | List of members of the European Parliament (1984–1989) |
| Next Election: | 1994 European Parliament election |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
| Next Mps: | List of members of the European Parliament, 1994–1999 |
| Seats For Election: | All 518 seats to the European Parliament |
| Majority Seats: | 260 |
| Turnout: | 58.5% 2.5 pp |
| Elected Mps: | Members elected |
| Election Date: | 15–18 June 1989 |
| Leader1: | Jean-Pierre Cot |
| Party1: | Socialist Group |
| Leaders Seat1: | France |
| Last Election1: | 130 |
| Seats1: | 180* |
| Seat Change1: | 50 |
| Leader2: | Egon Klepsch |
| Party2: | European People's Party |
| Leaders Seat2: | Germany |
| Last Election2: | 110 |
| Seats2: | 121* |
| Seat Change2: | 11 |
| Leader3: | Valéry Giscard d’Estaing |
| Party3: | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party |
| Leaders Seat3: | France |
| Last Election3: | 31 |
| Seats3: | 49* |
| Seat Change3: | 18 |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| President of the European Parliament | |
| Posttitle: | President of the European Parliament after election |
| Before Election: | Henry Plumb |
| Before Party: | European Democrats |
| After Election: | Enrique Barón Crespo |
| After Party: | Party of European Socialists |
The 1989 European Parliament election was a held on June Wednesday 15 to Sunday 18 across the 12 European Union member state in June 1989. It was the third European Parliament election but the first time that Spain and Portugal voted at the same time as the other members they joined in 1986. Overall turnout dropped to 59%.
There was no single voting system for all member states but each of them adopted its own method, established by national law.
The United Kingdom used a one-round (first-past-the-post) system of 78 constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland, while in Northern Ireland 3 proportional seats were allocated. Belgium, Ireland and Italy used a proportional system with subdivision of the territory into constituencies. Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain used a single national proportional system, although in the case of West Germany the three seats for the West Berlin area were not directly elected but were chosen by the Berlin House of Representatives, given the particular status of the city.
These were the first elections Portugal and Spain took part in with the other states. Spain was allocated 60 seats and Portugal was allocated 24; the number of seats for the other states remained the same, raising the total number of seats from 434 to 518.
| National distribution of seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Seats | State | Seats | |
| 81 | 24 | |||
| 81 | 24 | |||
| 81 | 24 | |||
| 81 | 16 | |||
| 60 | 15 | |||
| 25 | 6 | |||
| European Parliament election, 1989 - Final results at 25 July 1989 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | Description | Chaired by | MEPs | ||||
| SOC | Social Democrats | Jean-Pierre Cot | 180 | ||||
| EPP | Christian Democrats | Egon Klepsch | 121 | ||||
| LDR | Liberals and Liberal Democrats | 49 | |||||
| EUL | Communists and the Far Left | 42 | |||||
| LU | |||||||
| ED | Conservatives | 34 | |||||
| G | Greens | 30 | |||||
| EDA | National Conservatives | 20 | |||||
| DR | Far-Right Nationalists | 17 | |||||
| RBW | Regionalists | 13 | |||||
| NI | Independents | none | 12 | Total: 518 | Sources: http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1989.htmhttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/cre/pdf/exemple2_en.pdf | ||
| Group Nation | SOC | EPP | LDR | ED | EDA | G | EUL | DR | LU | RBW | NI | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 5 PS 3 SP | 5 CVP 2 PSC | 2 PVV 2 PRL | 2 Ecolo 1 Agalev | 1 VB | 1 VU | 24 | ||||||
| Denmark | 4 A | 2 D | 3 V | 2 C | 1 SF | 4 N | 16 | ||||||
| France | 22 PS | 4 CDS 1 CNI 1 Ind. | 12 UDF 1 UDF diss. | 12 RPR 1 CNI | 8 Verts | 10 FN | 7 PCF | 1 UPC | 81 | ||||
| Greece | 9 PASOK | 10 ND | 1 DIANA | 4 Synaspismos | 24 | ||||||||
| Ireland | 1 LAB | 4 FG | 1 PDs 1 Ind. | 6 FF | 1 WPI | 1 Ind. | 15 | ||||||
| Italy | 12 PSI 2 PSDI | 3 PRI | 3 LV 2 VA 1 DP 1 LA | 22 PCI | 2 LL 1 PSd'Az | 81 | |||||||
| Luxembourg | 2 LSAP | 3 CSV | 1 DP | 6 | |||||||||
| Netherlands | 8 PvdA | 10 CDA | 3 VVD | 1 D66 | 2 Regenboog | 1 SGP | 25 | ||||||
| Portugal | 8 PS | 3 CDS–PP | 9 PSD | 1 CDU (PEV) | 3 CDU (PCP) | 24 | |||||||
| Spain | 27 PSOE | 15 PP 1 CiU (UDC) | 5 CDS 1 CiU (CDC) | 1 IP | 4 IU | 1 PA 1 PEP | 2 Ruiz-Mateos 1 CN 1 HB | 60 | |||||
| United Kingdom | 45 LAB 1 SDLP | 1 UUP | 32 CON | 1 SNP | 1 DUP | 81 | |||||||
| West Germany | 31 SPD | 25 CDU 7 CSU | 4 FDP | 7 Grünen | 6 REP | 81 | |||||||
| Total | 180 | 121 | 49 | 34 | 20 | 28 | 31 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 518 |
| European Parliament election, 1989 - Timeline | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second Parliament | 1989 Election and Regrouping | Third Parliament | ||||||||
| Groups | Pre-elections Last session | Change | Results July 25 | New Groups | First session July 25 | |||||
| SOC | 166 | +14 | 180 | SOC | 180 | |||||
| EPP | 112 | +9 | 121 | EPP | 121 | |||||
| LDR | 46 | +3 | 49 | LDR | 49 | |||||
| RBW | 20 | +23 | 13 | RBW | 13 | |||||
| 30 | G | 30 | ||||||||
| COM | 48 | -6 | 28 | EUL | 28 | |||||
| 14 | LU | 14 | ||||||||
| ED | 66 | -32 | 34 | ED | 34 | |||||
| EDA | 30 | -10 | 20 | EDA | 20 | |||||
| ER | 16 | +1 | 17 | DR | 17 | |||||
| NI | 14 | -2 | 12 | NI | 12 | |||||
| Total | 518 | 0 | 518 | Total | 518 | |||||
| Sources http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/136-5-6.shtml http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1989.htm http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/eurodata/Hix-Noury-Roland-Power%20to%20the%20Parties-7jan.pdf http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/groland/pubs/HNR-Democracy_in_the_EP-11July05.pdf http://aei.pitt.edu/5901/01/000462_1.pdf | ||||||||||
| European Parliament election, 1989 - Delegation at 25 July 1989 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | Description | Details | % | MEPs | ||
| SOC | Social Democrats | West Germany 31, Belgium 8, Denmark 4, France 22, Ireland 1, Italy 14, Luxembourg 2, Netherlands 8, UK 46, Greece 9, Spain 27, Portugal 8 | 35% | 180 | ||
| EPP | Christian Democrats | West Germany 32, Belgium 7, Denmark 2, France 6, Ireland 4, Italy 27, Luxembourg 3, Netherlands 10, UK 1, Greece 10, Spain 16, Portugal 3 | 23% | 121 | ||
| LDR | Liberals and Liberal Democrats | West Germany 4, Belgium 4, Denmark 3, France 13, Ireland 2, Italy 3, Luxembourg 1, Netherlands 4, Spain 6, Portugal 9 | 9% | 49 | ||
| EUL & LU | Communists and the Far Left | Denmark 1, France 7, Ireland 1, Italy 22, Greece 4, Spain 4, Portugal 3 | 8% | 42 (28+14) | ||
| ED | Conservatives | Denmark 2, UK 32 | 7% | 34 | ||
| G | Greens | West Germany 8, Belgium 3, France 8, Italy 7, Netherlands 2, Spain 1, Portugal 1 | 6% | 30 | ||
| EDA | National Conservatives | France 13, Ireland 6, Greece 1 | 4% | 20 | ||
| DR | Far-Right Nationalists | West Germany 6, Belgium 1, France 10 | 3% | 17 | ||
| RBW | Regionalists | Belgium 1, Denmark 4, France 1, Ireland 1, Italy 3, UK 1, Spain 2 | 3% | 13 | ||
| NI | Independents | France 1, Italy 5, Netherlands 1, UK 1, Spain 4 | 2% | 12 | ||
| Sources: http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1989.htm http://aei.pitt.edu/5901/01/000462_1.pdf http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/eurodata/Hix-Noury-Roland-Power%20to%20the%20Parties-7jan.pdf http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/groland/pubs/HNR-Democracy_in_the_EP-11July05.pdf | 100% | 518 | ||||