1979 European Parliament election
{{short description|First election to the European Parliament}}
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1979 European Parliament election
| country = European Union
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| next_election = 1984 European Parliament election
| next_year = 1984
| seats_for_election = All 410 seats to the European Parliament
| majority_seats = 206
| turnout = 114,340,366 / 184,414,900 (62.0%)
| elected_mps = Members elected
| election_date = 7–10 June 1979
| image1 = 100x100px
| leader1 = {{Interlanguage link|Ernest Glinne|fr}}
| leader_since1 =
| party1 = Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
| leaders_seat1 = Belgium (French)
| last_election1 =
| seats1 = {{Composition bar compact|113|410|hex={{party color|Socialist Group}}}}
| seat_change1 =
| popular_vote1 = 29,530,418
| percentage1 = 26.62%
| swing1 =
| image2 = 130x130px
| leader2 = Egon Klepsch
| leader_since2 =
| party2 = European People's Party
| leaders_seat2 = Germany
| last_election2 =
| seats2 = {{Composition bar compact|107|410|hex={{party color|European People's Party}}}}
| seat_change2 =
| popular_vote2 = 31,355,631
| percentage2 = 28.26%
| swing2 =
| image3 =
| leader3 = James Scott-Hopkins
| leader_since3 =
| party3 = European Democrats
| leaders_seat3 = Hereford and Worcester
| last_election3 =
| seats3 = {{Composition bar compact|64|410|hex={{party color|European Democrats}}}}
| seat_change3 =
| popular_vote3 = 6,878,970
| percentage3 = 6.20%
| swing3 =
| image4 = 130x130px
| leader4 = Giorgio Amendola
| leader_since4 =
| party4 = Communists and Allies
| leaders_seat4 = Central Italy
| last_election4 =
| seats4 = {{Composition bar compact|44|410|hex={{party color|Communists and Allies}}}}
| seat_change4 =
| popular_vote4 = 14,908,281
| percentage4 = 13.44%
| swing4 =
| image5 = 130x130px
| leader5 = Martin Bangemann
| leader_since5 =
| party5 = European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
| leaders_seat5 = Germany
| last_election5 =
| seats5 = {{Composition bar compact|40|410|hex={{party color|European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party}}}}
| seat_change5 =
| popular_vote5 = 11,520,616
| percentage5 = 10.38%
| swing5 =
| image6 = 100x100px
| leader6 = Christian de La Malène
| leader_since6 =
| party6 = European Progressive Democrats
| leaders_seat6 = France
| last_election6 =
| seats6 = {{Composition bar compact|22|410|hex={{party color|European Progressive Democrats}}}}
| seat_change6 =
| popular_vote6 = 4,114,969
| percentage6 = 3.71%
| swing6 =
| map_image = 1979 European Parliament election, political grouping breakdown by countries.svg
| map_size = 400px
| map_caption = Post-election composition of each member state's delegation
| title = President of the European Parliament
| posttitle = President of the European Parliament
| before_election =
| before_party =
| after_election = Simone Veil
| after_party = European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group
}}
The 1979 European Parliament election was a series of parliamentary elections held across all 9 (at the time) European Community member states. They were the first European elections to be held, allowing citizens to elect 410 MEPs to the European Parliament, and also the first international election in history.
Seats in the Parliament had been allocated to the states according to population, and in some cases were divided into constituencies, but members sat according to political groups.
Background
The Treaty of Rome which established the Communities specified that the European Parliament must be elected by universal suffrage using a common voting system. The Council of the European Union was responsible for setting up the elections but it had procrastinated. As a stop-gap measure, members were appointed to the Parliament by the member states from their own national parliaments, as they had done since the Common Assembly.{{cite book| last = Hoskyns | first = Catherine |author2=Michael Newman | title = Democratizing the European Union: Issues for the twenty-first Century (Perspectives on Democratization | publisher = Manchester University Press | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-7190-5666-6 }} The Parliament was unhappy with this and threatened to take the Council to the European Court of Justice. The Council eventually agreed to elections and the first European Parliament elections were held in 1979 after proposals were put forward in the mid-1970s.[http://aei.pitt.edu/1922/01/EP_election_decision.pdf Patijn Report] The issue of a common voting method was left undecided, and even to this day the voting methods vary from member state to member state, although all have used some form of proportional representation since 1999.
Campaigns
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F056098-0019, Nürnberg, SPD Europa-Wahlkampf, Schmidt.jpg on the campaign trail in 1979]]
The campaigns varied. The former Social Democrat German Chancellor Willy Brandt took an international campaign to France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to boost the Socialist group. On the other hand, the former Prime Minister of France Jacques Chirac used the election to gauge his popularity against the then-President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, in anticipation of a presidential bid in 1981.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101015204710/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946309,00.html Electing a New Parliament], Time Magazine 11 June 1979
Election
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In June, the 410 members were elected by universal suffrage. At the time there were no rules on the system of election to be used. The United Kingdom used a plurality voting system for multiple small constituencies in Great Britain but the other member states used proportional representation for fewer larger constituencies (usually the member state itself as a single constituency), albeit with different methods of seat allocation.
The electorate took little interest but average voter turnout was 63%. The lowest turn out was in the United Kingdom with 32.2%: all others were above 50% apart from Denmark. Aside from Belgium and Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory, the highest turnout was in Italy with 84.9%.[http://www.cvce.eu/obj/rates_of_participation_in_european_elections_1979_2009-en-7dc3cc1c-13f3-43a6-865f-8f17cf307ef7.html Rates of participation in European elections (1979–2004)] on CVCE website
Result
Socialist parties working together under the Europe-wide Confederation of Socialist Parties won the most seats: the resultant Socialist group had 113 MEPs. Christian Democrat parties united within the pan-European European People's Party came second, with the resultant group having 107 MEPs. The largest third force was the Conservative European Democrats with 64, followed by Communists with 44. The Liberal Democrats had 40 seats, although their candidate was elected as President.
The groups formed were loose coalitions based on the groups founded in previous years, but they soon became the basis for modern European political parties.
| class="wikitable" |
| State
!Seats !State !Seats |
|---|
| {{FRA}}
|81 |{{FRG}} |81 |
| {{ITA}}
|81 |{{GBR}} |81 |
| {{NED}}
|25 |{{BEL}} |24 |
| {{DEN}}
|16 |{{IRL}} |15 |
| {{LUX}}
|6 !colspan="2"| |
| class="wikitable" |
| +1979 European Parliament election – Final results at 17 July 1979 |
| colspan="2"|Group{{Cite web | url=http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1979.htm | title=Parlement européen 1979 - Parlement élu en 1979 | language=fr | website=www.europe-politique.eu }}{{Cite web | url=http://aei.pitt.edu/5765/01/003730_1.pdf | title=Elections Europeennes | language=fr | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911085807/http://aei.pitt.edu/5765/01/003730_1.pdf | archive-date=2008-09-11}}{{Cite web | url=http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/groland/pubs/HNR-Democracy_in_the_EP-11July05.pdf | title=Democracy in the European Parliament | website=emlab.berkeley.edu}}{{Cite web | url=http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/eurodata/Hix-Noury-Roland-Power%20to%20the%20Parties-7jan.pdf | title=Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911085750/http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/eurodata/Hix-Noury-Roland-Power%20to%20the%20Parties-7jan.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2008 }}
!Description !Chaired by !colspan=3|MEPs |
|---|
| style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" |
!SOC |style="background-color:#FFDDDD;"|Social Democrats |style="background-color:#FFDDDD;"|Ernest Glinne |style="background-color:#FFDDDD;text-align:right;"|113 | rowspan="7" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background:#FFFFFF" | 250px |
| style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" |
!EPP |style="background-color:#DDDDFF;"|Christian Democrats |style="background-color:#DDDDFF;"|Egon Klepsch |style="background-color:#DDDDFF;text-align:right;"|107 |
| style="background-color:#0000FF; width: 3px;" |
!ED |style="background-color:#CCCCFF;"|Conservatives |style="background-color:#CCCCFF;"|James Scott-Hopkins |style="background-color:#CCCCFF;text-align:right;"|64 |
| style="background-color:#990000; width: 3px;" |
!COM |style="background-color:#EECCCC;"|Communists and the Far Left |style="background-color:#EECCCC;"|Giorgio Amendola |style="background-color:#EECCCC;text-align:right;"|44 |
| style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" |
!LD |style="background-color:#FFFFDD;"|Liberals and Liberal Democrats |style="background-color:#FFFFDD;"|Martin Bangemann |style="background-color:#FFFFDD;text-align:right;"|40 |
| style="background-color:#99FFFF; width: 3px;" |
!EPD |style="background-color:#DDFFFF;"|National Conservatives |style="background-color:#DDFFFF;"|Christian de La Malène |style="background-color:#DDFFFF;text-align:right;"|22 |
| style="background-color:#BBBBBB; width: 3px;" |
!CDI |style="background-color:#eeeeee;"|Heterogeneous |style="background-color:#eeeeee;"|Marco Pannella |style="background-color:#eeeeee;text-align:right;"|11 |
| style="background-color:#DDDDDD; width: 3px;" |
!NI |style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"|Independents |style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"|none |style="background-color:#EEEEEE;text-align:right;"|9 !Total: 410 ! |
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{{bar percent|EPP|#3399FF|26.10}}
{{bar percent|ED|#3099DB|15.61}}
{{bar percent|COM|#990000|10.73}}
{{Bar percent|LD|#FFFF00|9.76}}
{{bar percent|EPD|#4F6BA2|5.37}}
{{bar percent|CDI|#808080|2.68}}
{{bar percent|NI|#DDDDDD|2.20}}}}
= Result by country =
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left" |
| Group Nation !BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |SOC !BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |EPP !BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |ED !BGCOLOR="#FB8682" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |COM !BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |LD !BGCOLOR="#99FFFF" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |EPD !BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |CDI !BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc" class="unsortable" style="margin:auto;" |NI !Total |
|---|
| Belgium
|BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|7 CVP |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"| |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|2 PVV |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"| |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"|1 VU |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"|2 FDF |24 |
| Denmark
|BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|1 D |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"|2 C |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"|1 SF |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|3 V |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"|1 FP |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"|4 N |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"| |16 |
| France
|BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|8 UDF |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"|19 PCF |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|17 UDF |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"|15 RPR |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"| |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"| |81 |
| Ireland
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"|4 LAB |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|4 FG |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"| |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|1 Ind. |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"|5 FF |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"|1 Ind. FF |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"| |15 |
| Italy
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"|9 PSI |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|29 DC |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"|24 PCI |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|3 PLI |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"| |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"|3 PR |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"|4 MSI |81 |
| Luxembourg
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"|1 LSAP |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|3 CSV |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"| |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|2 DP |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"| |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"| |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"| |6 |
| Netherlands
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"|9 PvdA |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|10 CDA |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"| |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|4 VVD |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"| |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"| |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"|2 D66 |25 |
| United Kingdom
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"|17 LAB |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"| |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"|60 CON |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"| |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"| |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"|1 SNP |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"| |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"|1 DUP |81 |
| West Germany
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"|35 SPD |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"|34 CDU |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"| |BGCOLOR="#FB8682"| |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a"|4 FDP |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF"| |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC"| |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc"| |81 |
| Total
|BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD" align="center"|113 |BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF" align="center"|107 |BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" align="center"|64 |BGCOLOR="#FB8682" align="center"|44 |BGCOLOR="#f0ff8a" align="center"|40 |BGCOLOR="#99FFFF" align="center"|22 |BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC" align="center"|11 |BGCOLOR="#dcdcdc" align="center"|9 |410 |
Post election
File:Simone Veil, gymnase Japy 2008 02 27 n5.jpg, elected as the first female President]]
Louise Weiss, who was born in 1893 and thus 86 at the time, was found to be Parliament's oldest member and hence presided over the chamber while the election of the President took place (July 1979). Before that could happen however, she immediately had to deal with Ian Paisley MEP who, in the first speech of the session, protested that the British flag outside the building was flying upside down.Matthew Tempest and agencies [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jan/19/northernireland.devolution Paisley to stand down as MEP], The Guardian, 19 January 2004 She dealt with the interruption swiftly.How? Did she climb the flagpole and fixed it? The confrontation was seen as one of her finest hours and she later confided that, as a grandmother, she was used to dealing with "recalcitrant youngsters".[http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/a-number-of-names-worth-remembering-…/37506.aspx A number of names worth remembering ...], European Voice, 26 November 1998
There were five candidates for President of the European Parliament: Giorgio Amendola, Italian Communist; Emma Bonino, Italian Technical Independent; Christian de La Malène, French Progressive Democrat; Simone Veil, French Liberal, and Mario Zagari, Italian Socialist.[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?language=EN&type=IM-PRESS&reference=20070109BKG01804 Election of the President of the European Parliament], European Parliament
In the first ballot, Veil secured 183 of the 380 votes cast – eight short of the absolute majority needed. The next closest contender was Zagari with 118 votes, then Amendola with 44, de la Malène with 26 and Bonino with 9. Bonino and de la Malène dropped out and Veil secured an absolute majority in the second ballot with 192 of the 377 votes cast (Zagari gained 128 and Amendola 47). Veil was elected as the first President of the elected Parliament, and first female President of the Parliament since it was founded in 1952.
The following were elected as Vice-Presidents: Danielle De March, Basil de Ferranti, Bruno Friedrich, Guido Gonella, Gérard Jacquet, Hans Katzer, Poul Møller, Pierre Pflimlin, Bríd Rodgers, Marcel Albert Vandewiele, Anne Vondeling and Mario Zagari.
Previously the Parliament was a weak consultative assembly, the members of which were part-time. With the elections the new body of MEPs were full-time, energetic and more diverse. As soon as the Parliament was established the "old guard" MEPs of the larger parties sought to raise the bar at which a European Parliament political group could be formed (the status gave financial support and representation in committees). This move was quickly blocked by smaller groups working together and filibustering the proposal. The ties formed at this time laid the foundations of the Rainbow group: an alliance of left-wing and green parties which later became the European Greens–European Free Alliance group.
=Statistics=
| class="wikitable"
|+ European Parliament election, 1979 – Electoral map at 17 July 1979 |
| style="background-color:#262C90"
|colspan=3 |Image:European Parliament election, 1979 - electoral map.png |
| Key
!Description |
|---|
| style="background-color:#FFDDDD"
! style="background-color:#FF0000;width:2em;" | !SOC |
| style="background-color:#DDDDFF"
! style="background-color:#3399FF;width:2em;" | !EPP |
| style="background-color:#CCCCFF"
! style="background-color:#0000FF;width:2em;" | !ED |
| style="background-color:#EECCCC"
! style="background-color:#990000;width:2em;" | !COM |Communists and the Far Left |
| style="background-color:#FFFFDD"
! style="background-color:#FFFF00;width:2em;" | !LD |Liberals and Liberal Democrats |
| style="background-color:#DDFFFF"
! style="background-color:#99FFFF;width:2em;" | !EPD |
| style="background-color:#eeeeee"
! style="background-color:#999999;width:2em;" | !CDI |Heterogeneous |
| style="background-color:#EEEEEE"
! style="background-color:#999999;width:2em;" | !NI |Independents |
| class="wikitable"
|+ European Parliament election, 1979 - Statistics |
| Area
!Dates !Seats !Electorate !Turnout !Previous !Next !Election methods !Sources |
|---|
| European Community (EC-9) |7, 10 June |410 |191,783,528 |63% |Inaugural |1981 |All PR, except UK (not NI) |{{Cite web | url=http://aei.pitt.edu/5174/01/000469_1.pdf | title=Elections 1989 - Results and members | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325013535/http://aei.pitt.edu/5174/01/000469_1.pdf | archive-date=2009-03-25}}{{Cite web | url=http://aei.pitt.edu/5181/01/000475_1.pdf | title=Election '79 - Voting figures and winners | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819213513/http://aei.pitt.edu/5181/01/000475_1.pdf | archive-date=2008-08-19}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/results1306/turnout_ep/turnout_table.html | title=Turnout trends at European elections | year=2004 | publisher=European Parliament}} |
| class="wikitable"
|+ European Parliament election, 1979 - Timeline |
| colspan="3"|Appointed Parliament
!colspan="2"|1979 Election !colspan="2"|Regrouping !colspan="3"|First Parliament |
|---|
| colspan="2"|Groups
!Pre-elections !Change !Results !Change !Results !colspan="2"|New !First session |
| BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"
! style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | ! SOC | 63 | +48 | 111 | +2 | 113 ! style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | ! SOC | 113 |
| BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"
! style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | ! CD | 52 | +54 | 106 | +1 | 107 ! style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | ! EPP | 107 |
| BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"
! style="background-color:#0000FF; width: 3px;" | ! C | 18 | +45 | 63 | +1 | 64 ! style="background-color:#0000FF; width: 3px;" | ! ED | 64 |
| BGCOLOR="#EECCCC"
! style="background-color:#990000; width: 3px;" | ! COM | 17 | +27 | 44 | +0 | 44 ! style="background-color:#990000; width: 3px;" | ! COM | 44 |
| BGCOLOR="#FFFFDD"
! style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" | ! LD | 24 | +17 | 41 | -1 | 40 ! style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" | ! LD | 40 |
| BGCOLOR="#DDFFFF"
! style="background-color:#99FFFF; width: 3px;" | ! EPD | 19 | +2 | 21 | +1 | 22 ! style="background-color:#99FFFF; width: 3px;" | ! EPD | 22 |
| BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 3px;" | ! rowspan="2"|NI | rowspan="2"|3 | rowspan="2"|+21 | rowspan="2"|24 | style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | +11 | style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 11 ! style="background-color:#cccccc; width: 3px;" | ! CDI | style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 11 |
| BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"
| -15 | 9 ! style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 3px;" | ! NI | 9 |
| colspan="2"|Total
! 196 ! +214 ! 410 ! +0 ! 410 !colspan="2"|Total ! 410 |
| colspan="10"|Sources:{{Cite web | url=http://aei.pitt.edu/5182/01/000476_1.pdf | title=Elections '79 - The results | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517080438/http://aei.pitt.edu/5182/1/000476_1.pdf | archive-date=2011-05-17}} |
| class="wikitable"
|+ European Parliament election, 1979 - Delegation at 17 July 1979 |
| colspan="2"|Group
!Description !Details !% !MEPs |
|---|
| BGCOLOR="#FFDDDD"
! style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | !SOC |West Germany 35, Belgium 7, Denmark 4, France 22, Ireland 4, Italy 13, Luxembourg 1, Netherlands 9, UK 18 |28% |113 |
| BGCOLOR="#DDDDFF"
! style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | !EPP |West Germany 42, Belgium 10, France 8, Ireland 4, Italy 30, Luxembourg 3, Netherlands 10 |26% |107 |
| BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF"
! style="background-color:#0000FF; width: 3px;" | !ED |Denmark 3, UK 61 |16% |64 |
| BGCOLOR="#EECCCC"
! style="background-color:#990000; width: 3px;" | !COM |Communists and the Far Left |Denmark 1, France 19, Italy 24 |11% |44 |
| BGCOLOR="#FFFFDD"
! style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" | !LD |Liberals and Liberal Democrats |West Germany 4, Belgium 4, Denmark 3, France 17, Ireland 1, Italy 5, Luxembourg 2, Netherlands 4 |10% |40 |
| BGCOLOR="#DDFFFF"
! style="background-color:#99FFFF; width: 3px;" | !EPD |Denmark 1, France 15, Ireland 5, UK 1 |5% |22 |
| BGCOLOR="#eeeeee"
! style="background-color:#999999; width: 3px;" | !CDI |Heterogeneous |Belgium 1, Denmark 4, Ireland 1, Italy 5 |3% |11 |
| BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"
! style="background-color:#999999; width: 3px;" | !NI |Independents |Belgium 2, Italy 4, Netherlands 2, UK 1 |2% |9 |
| colspan="4"|Sources:
!100% !410 |
| class="sortable wikitable"
|+ European Parliament election, 1979 - Votes by national party at unknown 1979 date |
| Country
!Party !Abbr. !Group !Votes !% (nat.) !Seats |
|---|
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| DC |EPP | 12,753,708 | 36.45 | 29 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD |SOC | 11,370,045 | 40.83 | 35 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| CDU |EPP | 10,883,085 | 39.08 | 34 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| PCI |COM | 10,345,284 | 29.57 | 24 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| CP | ED | 6,508,493 | 48.40 | 60 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| UDF |LD | 5,666,984 | 27.87 | 25 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| Socialist Party – Movement of Left Radicals | PS-MRG |SOC | 4,763,026 | 23.43 | 22 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| LP | SOC | 4,253,207 | 31.63 | 17 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| PCF |COM | 4,153,710 | 20.43 | 19 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| PSI |SOC | 3,858,295 | 11.03 | 9 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| RPR |EPD | 3,301,980 | 16.24 | 15 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| Christian Social Union of Bavaria | CSU | EPP | 2,817,120 | 10.12 | 8 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| CDA |EPP | 2,017,743 | 35.60 | 10 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| MSI |NI | 1,907,880 | 5.45 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| PvdA |SOC | 1,722,240 | 30.39 | 9 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| L | | 1,691,531 | 12.58 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| FDP |LD | 1,662,621 | 5.97 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| CVP |EPP | 1,607,941 | 29.54 | 7 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | PSDI |SOC | 1,512,425 | 4.32 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| PR |CDI | 1,283,512 | 3.67 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| PLI |LD | 1,270,152 | 3.63 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | VVD |LD | 914,787 | 16.14 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| PRI |LD | 895,558 | 2.56 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| GRÜNE | | 893,683 | 3.21 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| VERTS | | 891,683 | 4.39 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| SP |SOC | 698,889 | 12.84 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| Workers' Struggle – Revolutionary Communist League | LO-LCR | | 623,663 | 3.07 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PS |SOC | 575,824 | 10.58 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| Party for Freedom and Progress | PVV |LD | 512,363 | 9.41 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| D66 |NI | 511,967 | 9.03 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{IRL}}
| FF |EPD | 464,451 | 34.68 | 5 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PSC |EPP | 445,912 | 8.19 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{IRL}}
| FG |EPP | 443,652 | 33.13 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| Democratic Front of Francophones | FDF |NI | 414,603 | 7.62 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| PdUP |CDI | 406,007 | 1.16 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| S |SOC | 382,487 | 21.80 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| 5th List: Employment. Equality. Europe | 5-EEE | | 373,259 | 1.84 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PRL |LD | 372,904 | 6.85 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| People's Movement against the EU | FolkeB |CDI | 365,760 | 20.85 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| Christian Social People's Party | CSV |EPP | 352,296 | 36.12 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| VU |CDI | 324,540 | 5.96 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| Inter-Professional Union for an | UDIP-FIDES | | 290,555 | 1.43 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| DP |LD | 274,307 | 28.12 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| PFN | | 265,911 | 1.31 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| Venstre | V |LD | 252,767 | 14.41 | 3 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| DP |CDI | 251,927 | 0.72 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| SNP |EPD | 247,836 | 1.84 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| KF |EPP | 245,309 | 13.98 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party | LSAP |SOC | 211,106 | 21.64 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| South Tyrolean People's Party | SVP |EPP | 196,277 | 0.56 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{IRL}}
| ILP |SOC | 193,898 | 14.48 | 4 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{IRL}}
| Ind. |NI | 189,499 | 14.15 | 2 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| DUP |NI | 170,688 | 1.27 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| Valdostan Union – Sardinian Action Party | UV-PSd'Az | | 166,194 | 0.47 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PCB-KPB | | 145,796 | 2.68 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|Italy}}
| DN | | 142,354 | 0.41 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | SDLP |SOC | 140,622 | 1.05 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| SGP | | 126,412 | 2.23 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| UUP |ED | 125,169 | 0.93 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
|Ind. | | 112,366 | N/A | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| DKP | | 112,055 | 0.40 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| ECOLO | | 107,833 | 1.98 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| CD |ED | 107,790 | 6.14 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| FP |EPD | 100,702 | 5.74 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| Communist Party of the Netherlands | CPN | | 97,343 | 1.72 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| PSP | | 97,243 | 1.72 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| PPR | | 92,055 | 1.62 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| PC | | 83,399 | 0.62 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| SF |COM | 81,991 | 4.67 | 1 |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| AGALEV | | 77,986 | 1.43 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| SDP | | 68,289 | 7.00 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| GPV | | 62,610 | 1.10 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| DR | | 60,954 | 3.47 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| VS | | 59,379 | 3.38 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| RV | | 56,944 | 3.25 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| Communist Party of Luxembourg | KPL | | 48,813 | 5.00 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| TPO-AMADA | | 45,423 | 0.83 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| Christian Bavarian People's Party | CBV | | 45,311 | 0.16 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{IRL}}
| Sinn Féin – The Workers Party | SFWP | | 43,942 | 3.28 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | A | | 39,026 | 0.29 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| VVP | | 34,706 | 0.64 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| EAP | | 31,822 | 0.11 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{FRG}}
| ZENTRUM | | 31,367 | 0.11 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{DEN}}
| KrF | | 30,985 | 1.77 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| United Against the Common Market |UACM | | 27,506 | N/A | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{NED}}
| LL | | 24,903 | 0.44 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| E-NON | E-NON | | 22,187 | 0.41 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| EP | | 17,953 | 0.13 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PLW-PLE | PLW-PLE | | 17,566 | 0.32 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| Workers Revolutionary League | LRT-RAL | | 16,911 | 0.31 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| MK | | 10,205 | N/A | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| AL | | 9,845 | 1.01 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PPB | PPB | | 9,704 | 0.18 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| PFU | PFU | | 7,273 | 0.13 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| ULP | | 6,122 | 1.1 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| Liberal Party | LP | | 5,610 | 0.58 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{LUX}}
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | RSP | | 5,085 | 0.52 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{BEL}}
| POE | POE | | 4,617 | 0.08 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| WP | | 4,418 | 0.8 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
|Unionist Party of Northern Ireland | UPNI | | 3,712 | 0.6 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{IRL}}
| CDI | CDI | | 3,630 | 0.27 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
|IMG | | 1,635 | N/A | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| ULP | | 932 | 0.2 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| EFP | EFP | | 497 | N/A | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| Europe – Self-Management List | PSU | | 382 | 0.00 | |
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagu|France}}
| RE | | 337 | 0.00 | |
| colspan=7 | Source:{{Cite web | url=http://www.pre.gva.es/pls/argos_elec/DMEDB_ElecAgrupaPaises.informeElec?aVAgrupaId=UE&aVLengua=v | title=Arxiu Històric Electoral - Unió Europea | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621030522/http://www.pre.gva.es/pls/argos_elec/DMEDB_ElecAgrupaPaises.informeElec?aVAgrupaId=UE&aVLengua=v | archive-date=2012-06-21}}, with exception of some UK results |
=Overall final results (after regrouping)=
{{Election results
|alliance1=Group of the European People's Party (EPP)|aspan1=12
|party1=Christian Democracy (Italy) (DC)|votes1=12774320|seats1=29
|party2=Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)Including two indirectly elected members from West Berlin|votes2=10883085|seats2=34
|party3=Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)|votes3=2817120|seats3=8
|party4=Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)|votes4=2017743|seats4=10
|party5=Union for French Democracy (UDF)Only members of UDF who were part of the EPP group{{cite web |author= Marius Autran and Jean-Claude Autran |url=http://jcautran.free.fr/archives_familiales/elections/europeennes/1979/europeennes_1979.html#21 |title=Elections européennes du 10 juin 1979 (1ère législature) |website=jcautran.free.fr |access-date=25 June 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.france-politique.fr/elections-parlement-europeen-1979.htm |title=Élections européennes 1979|author=Laurent de Boissieu |website=www.france-politique.fr |publisher=France Politique|access-date=25 June 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1569/OLIVIER_LEFEVRE+D%27ORMESSON/history/1#detailedcardmep |title=Olivier LEFEVRE D'ORMESSON|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|date=5 August 1918 |publisher=European Parliament|access-date=25 June 2024}}|votes5=1851460|seats5=8
|party6=Christian People's Party (Flanders) (CVP)|votes6=1607941|seats6=7
|party7=Christian Social Party (Wallonia) (PSC)|votes7=445912|seats7=3
|party8=Fine Gael|votes8=443652|seats8=4
|party9=Christian Social People's Party (Luxembourg) (CSV)|votes9=352296|seats9=3
|party10=South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP)|votes10=196373|seats10=1
|party11=Christian Democrats (Denmark){{cite web |url=https://lipari.istat.it/digibib/Bollettino%20mensile%20di%20statistica/Supplemento/SMS%201984%20N.19%20-Elezioni%20del%20parlamento%20europeo%20-%2017-6-1984.pdf |title=ELECTION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 17 JUNE 1984 (in Italian) |website=lipari.istat.it|publisher=ISTAT|access-date=25 June 2024}}|votes11=30985|seats11=0
|atotal12=33420887|aseats12=107
|alliance13=Socialist Group (SOC)|aspan13=14|party13=Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)Including one indirectly elected member from West Berlin|votes13=11370045|seats13=35
|party14=Socialist Party (France) (PS) – Movement of Radicals of the Left
(MRG)|votes14=4763026|seats14=22
|party15=Labour Party (UK)|votes15=4253247|seats15=17
|party16=Italian Socialist Party (PSI)|votes16=3866946|seats16=9
|party17=Labour Party (Netherlands) (PvdA)|votes17=1722240|seats17=9
|party18=Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI)|votes18=1514272|seats18=4
|party19=Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) (BSP)|votes19=698889|seats19=3
|party20=Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) (PSB)|votes20=575824|seats20=4
|party21=Social Democrats (Denmark)|votes21=382487|seats21=3
|party22=Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP)|votes22=211106|seats22=1
|party23=Labour Party (Ireland)|votes23=193898|seats23=4
|party24=Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)|votes24=140622|seats24=1
|party25=Siumut|votes25=5118|seats25=1
|atotal26=29697720|aseats26=113
|alliance27=Communists and Allies Group (COM)|aspan27=8|party27=Italian Communist Party (PCI)|votes27=10361344 |seats27=24
|party28=French Communist Party (PCF)|votes28=4153710|seats28=19
|party29=Communist Party of Belgium (KPB/PCB)|votes29=145796|seats29=0
|party30=German Communist Party (DKP){{cite web |url=https://lipari.istat.it/digibib/Bollettino%20mensile%20di%20statistica/Supplemento/SMS%201984%20N.19%20-Elezioni%20del%20parlamento%20europeo%20-%2017-6-1984.pdf |title=ELECTION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 17 JUNE 1984 (in Italian) |website=lipari.istat.it|publisher=ISTAT|access-date=25 June 2024}}|votes30=112055|seats30=0
|party31=Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN){{cite web |url=https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/person/5124/hartog-wessel-com-nl |title=HARTOG, Wessel (COM, NL)
|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=25 June 2024}}|votes31=97343|seats31=0
|party32=Socialist People's Party (Denmark) (SF)|votes32=81991|seats32=1
|party33=Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL)|votes33=48813|seats33=0
|atotal34=15001052|aseats34=44
|alliance35=Liberal and Democratic Group (LD)|aspan35=12|party35=Union for French Democracy (UDF)|votes35=3815524|seats35=17
|party36=Liberal Party (UK){{cite book |author=Dimitri Almeida |title=The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oD7bKbo0FYEC&pg=PA102 |year=2012 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-136-34039-0 |pages=102–103}}|votes36=1690638|seats36=0
|party37=Free Democratic Party (Germany) (FDP)|votes37=1662621|seats37=4
|party38=Italian Liberal Party (PLI)|votes38=1271159|seats38=3
|party39=People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)|votes39=914787|seats39=4
|party40=Italian Republican Party (PRI)|votes40=896139|seats40=2
|party41=Party for Freedom and Progress (Flanders) (PVV)|votes41=512363|seats41=2
|party42=Liberal Reformist Party (Wallonia) (PRL)|votes42=372904|seats42=2
|party43=Democratic Party (Luxembourg) (DP)|votes43=274307|seats43=2
|party44=Venstre (Denmark) (CSV)|votes44=252767|seats44=3
|party45=Thomas Joseph Maher (Independent from Ireland){{cite web |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1437/THOMAS+JOSEPH_MAHER/history/1#detailedcardmep |title=Thomas Joseph MAHER
|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|date=29 April 1922
|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=25 June 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://irelandelection.com/election.php?elecid=213&constitid=477&electype=7|title=Munster: 1979 European Election
|website=irelandelection.com|access-date=25 June 2024}}|votes45=86208 |seats45=1|colour45=#D3D3D3
|atotal47=11749467|aseats47=40
|alliance48=European Democratic Group (ED)|aspan48=5|party48=Conservative Party (UK)|votes48=6508492 |seats48=60
|party49=Conservative People's Party (Denmark) (DKF){{cite web |url=http://www.europarl.dk/ressource/static/files/Medlemskatalog_screen.pdf |title=List of Danish MEPs (in Danish) on Wayback Machine
|website=www.europarl.dk|publisher=European Parliament|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331191903/http://www.europarl.dk/ressource/static/files/Medlemskatalog_screen.pdf
|access-date=25 June 2024|archive-date=31 March 2012
}}|votes49=245309|seats49=2
|party50=Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)|votes50=125169|seats50=1
|party51=Centre Democrats (Denmark) (CD)|votes51=107790|seats51=1
|atotal52=6986760|aseats52=64
|alliance53=Group of European Progressive Democrats (EPD)|aspan53=5|party53=Rally for the Republic (France) (RPR)|votes53=3301980 |seats53=15
|party54=Fianna Fáil|votes54=464451|seats54=5
|party55=Scottish National Party (SNP)|votes55=247836|seats55=1
|party56=Progress Party (Denmark) (FrP)|votes56=100702|seats56=1
|atotal57=4114969|aseats57=22
|alliance58=Group for the Technical Coordination and Defence of Independent Groups and Members (CDI)|aspan58=7|party58=Radical Party (Italy) (PR)|votes58=1285065 |seats58=3
|party59=Proletarian Unity Party (Italy) (PdUP)|votes59=406656|seats59=1
|party60=People's Movement against the EEC (Denmark)|votes60=365760|seats60=4
|party61=People's Union (Flanders) (VU)|votes61=324540|seats61=1
|party62=Proletarian Democracy (DP)|votes62=252342|seats62=1
|party63=Independent Fianna Fáil |votes63=81522|seats63=1
|atotal64=2715885|aseats64=11
|alliance65=Non-Inscrits (NI)|aspan65=5|party65=Italian Social Movement (MSI)|votes65=1909055 |seats65=4
|party66=Democrats 66 (D66)|votes66=511967|seats66=2
|party67=Democratic Front of Francophones–Walloon Rally (DéFI-RW)|votes67=414603|seats67=2
|party68=Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)|votes68=170688|seats68=1
|atotal69=3006313|aseats69=9
|alliance70=Other parties and independents|votes70=5154957|seats70=0|
|source=[https://resultatselection.belgium.be/fr/search/parlement-europ%C3%A9en/1979/ Belgian Elections], [https://www.folketingstidende.dk/ebog/19781R?s=57 Folketingsårbog], [https://www.france-politique.fr/elections-europeennes-1979.htm France Politique], [http://jcautran.free.fr/archives_familiales/elections/europeennes/1979/europeennes_1979.html jcautran.free.fr], [https://www.france-politique.fr/elections-parlement-europeen-1979.htm France Politique], [http://www.electionsireland.org/results/europe/1979euro.cfm ElectionsIreland.org], [https://irelandelection.com/elections.php?detail=yes&tab=constit&electype=7&elecid=213 Irish Elections], [http://elezionistorico.interno.it/index.php?tpel=E&dtel=10/06/1979&tpa=Y&tpe=A&lev0=0&levsut0=0&es0=S&ms=S Italian Ministry of the Interior], [https://download.data.public.lu/resources/resultats-des-elections-europeennes-au-grand-duche-de-luxembourg-de-1979-1989/20170629-150001/Elections_EU_1979-1989.pdf Public.lu], [https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/EP19790607 Kiesraad], [http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/RP99-57 UK Parliament Briefing], [https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06865/SN06865.pdf House of Commons Library], [https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/politics/election/re1979.htm CAIN Archive], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110913174013/http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/europawahlen/downloads/ew_ab79_ergebnisse.pdf Federal Statistics Office], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170731001757/https://www.wahlen-in-deutschland.de/beBerlinWest.htm Wahlen-in-Deutschland.de], [https://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1979.htm Europe Politique]
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References
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External links
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- [http://www.cvce.eu/obj/the_election_of_members_of_the_european_parliament-en-030eaed6-fbc7-4f64-a464-f3eaba763c66.html The election of the Members of the European Parliament] CVCE
- [http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1979.htm Full Election Details] Europe Politique {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://www.cvce.eu/obj/speech_by_simone_veil_strasbourg_17_july_1979-en-174d384d-d5c7-4c02-ad78-b1f6efc9740a.html Speech by Simone Veil during the first session] CVCE
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