2019 European Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format
From 2019, the Host Nation, Nordic & Baltic and East European Qualifiers will only be available to non-tour card holders. Any tour card holders from the applicable regions will have to play the main European Qualifier.


2019 European Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format
Dave Chisnall, who was set to be the 12th seed, withdrew prior to the tournament draw due to family reasons. All seeds below him moved up a place, with Mervyn King becoming sixteenth seed, and an extra place being made available in the Host Nation Qualifier.


2019 European Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format
James Wade, the 10th seed, withdrew from the tournament after the draw and was not replaced, with his second round opponent Ryan Searle receiving a bye.


2019 European Darts Matchplay
The 2019 European Darts Matchplay was the eleventh of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2019 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Maimarkthalle, Mannheim, Germany, from 6–8 September 2019. It featured a field of 48 players and £140,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2019 European Darts Matchplay
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating William O'Connor 8–2 in the previous year's final. Van Gerwen reached a third European Tour final in five events, but lost in his third successive final appearance as Joe Cullen won his first stage title with an 8–5 success.


2019 European Darts Matchplay, Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 25 June will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.


2019 European Darts Matchplay, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places will go to players from six qualifying events – 18 from the UK Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 2 August), six from the European Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 2 August), two from the West & South European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 5 September), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 5 September), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 23 August), and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 24 August).


2019 European Darts Matchplay, Qualification and format
From 2019, the Host Nation, Nordic & Baltic and East European Qualifiers will only be available to non-Tour Card holders. Any Tour Card holders from the applicable regions will have to play the main European Qualifier.


2019 European Darts Open
The 2019 European Darts Open was the first of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2019 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Ostermann-Arena, Leverkusen, Germany, from 22–24 March 2019. It featured a field of 48 players and £140,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2019 European Darts Open
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Peter Wright 8–7 in the final of the 2018 tournament, and he defended his title by defeating Rob Cross 8–6 in the final.


2019 European Darts Open
In his semi-final win over Mensur Suljović, Van Gerwen became the first player to hit two nine-darters on the European Tour, taking out 147 via T19-Bull-D20, which was also the first time a filmed nine-dart finish included a bullseye, but not as the final dart (as all the previous three were double in/double out nine-darters in the World Grand Prix).


2019 European Darts Open, Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 12 February will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.


2019 European Darts Open, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places will go to players from six qualifying events – 18 from the UK Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 22 February), six from the European Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 22 February), two from the West & South European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 21 March), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 21 March), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 5 October 2018) and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 19 January).


2019 European Darts Open, Qualification and format
From 2019, the Host Nation, Nordic & Baltic and East European Qualifiers will only be available to non-Tour Card holders. Any Tour Card holders from the applicable regions will have to play the main European Qualifier. The only exceptions being that the Nordic & Baltic qualifiers for the first 3 European Tour events took place in late 2018, before the new ruling was announced, hence why Madars Razma qualified by this method, as under the new rules, he would have had to enter the European Tour Card Holder Qualifier, after regaining his Tour Card at European Q-School in January 2019.


2019 European Diving Championships
The 2019 European Diving Championships were held in Kyiv, Ukraine from 5 to 11 August 2019. This was the sixth edition of the stand alone Championships, and the 40th European Championships in diving in total, including the diving portion of the European Aquatics Championships.


2019 European Diving Championships
The event is a qualification event for the 2020 Summer Olympics with quota places awarded to the nation of the winners of both men's and women's 3 metre and 10 metre events.


2019 European Diving Championships, Participating nations
A total of 126 athletes (72 men and 54 women) from 23 LEN federations participated at the championships.


2019 European Diving Championships, Championships Trophy
The trophy is assigned to the nation with most points gained by the top 12 athletes or teams in each event. Russia won the title with 258 points, while the previous Trophy's winner and host Ukraine finished at fourth place.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 1 metre springboard
Men's 1 metre springboard event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 7 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 1 metre springboard, Results
30 athletes participated at the event; the best 12 from the Preliminary round qualified for the Final.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 10 metre platform
Men's 10 metre platform event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 11 August. Ukrainian Oleksii Sereda, aged 13 years and seven months at the time, won the gold medal becoming the youngest European Diving champion ever.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 10 metre platform, Results
19 athletes participated at the event; the best 12 from the Preliminary round qualified for the Final.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 3 metre springboard
Men's 3 metre springboard event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 9 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 3 metre springboard, Results
32 athletes participated at the event; the best 12 from the Preliminary round qualified for the Final.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's 3 metre synchro springboard
Men's 3 metre synchro springboard event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 10 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform
Men's synchronized 10 metre platform event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 8 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Mixed 10 m platform synchro
Mixed 10 m platform synchro event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 9 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Mixed 3 m springboard synchro
Mixed 3 m springboard synchro event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 6 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Team event
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2019 European Diving Championships – Team event
The Team Event of the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on the first day of the competition, 5 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Team event, Results
31 athletes from 8 national teams participated at the single-round event.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 1 metre springboard
Women's 1 metre springboard event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 10 August. The Russian Vitaliia Koroleva, ranked at the 13th place and eliminated after the preliminary round, entered the final due to the withdrawal of Italian Elena Bertocchi (8th in the preliminaries), and managed to win the gold medal.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 1 metre springboard, Results
23 athletes participated at the event; the best 12 from the Preliminary round qualified for the Final.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 10 metre platform
Women's 10 metre platform event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 6 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 10 metre platform, Results
19 athletes participated at the event; the best 12 from the Preliminary round qualified for the Final.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 3 metre springboard
Women's 3 metre springboard event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 8 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 3 metre springboard, Results
22 athletes participated at the event; the best 12 from the Preliminary round qualified for the Final.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's 3 metre synchro springboard
Women's 3 metre synchro springboard event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 11 August.


2019 European Diving Championships – Women's synchronized 10 metre platform
Women's synchronized 10 metre platform event at the 2019 European Diving Championships was contested on 7 August.


2019 European Fencing Championships
The 2019 European Fencing Championships was held in Düsseldorf, Germany from 17 to 22 June 2019 at the Messe Düsseldorf hall 8b.


2019 European Figure Skating Championships
The 2019 European Figure Skating Championships took place in Minsk, Belarus. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing.


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
Skaters were eligible for the event if they represent a European member nation of the International Skating Union and have reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2018, in their place of birth. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters was the 2019 Four Continents Championships. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria, but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the European Championships.


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Minimum TES
The ISU stipulates that the minimum scores must be achieved at an ISU-recognized senior international competition in the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Number of entries per discipline
Based on the results of the 2018 European Championships, the ISU allows each country one to three entries per discipline.


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Entries
Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2018. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 3 January 2019.


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medalists
Medals awarded to the skaters who achieve the highest overall placements in each discipline:


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medalists
Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieve the highest short program or rhythm dance placements in each discipline:


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medalists
Medals awarded to the skaters who achieve the highest free skating or free dance placements in each discipline:


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country
Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country
Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:


2019 European Figure Skating Championships, Prize money
Prize money is awarded to skaters who achieve a Top 6 placement in each discipline as follows:


2019 European Games
The 2nd European Games 2019 (Belarusian: II Еўрапейскія гульні, Jeŭrapiejskija huĺni 2019; Russian: II Европейские игры, Yevropeyskiye igry 2019) was held in Minsk, Belarus, from 21 June to 30 June 2019. The games featured 200 events in 15 sports (23 disciplines). Around 4,000 athletes from 50 countries participated. Ten of the sports offered qualification opportunities for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The opening ceremony at the Dinamo Stadium was held on 21 June and the closing ceremony at the Dinamo Stadium was held on 30 June.


2019 European Games
The logo of the games was "paparać-kvietka"—a plant that plays an important role in the culture of the Slavs. The slogan of the event is "Bright Year, Bright You", which also makes reference to the national domain of the Republic of Belarus and the official international shortening—BY.


2019 European Games, Host selection
A number of countries and cities expressed their interest to host the second European Games in 2019 but only the Netherlands submitted an official bid. At the meeting of an Extraordinary General Assembly on 16 May 2015, the Netherlands was unanimously approved as host of the second edition of the Games. The competition intended to be nationwide and based in seven cities, including Amsterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht.


2019 European Games, Host selection
On 10 June 2015, the Netherlands announced their refusal to hold the second European Games after insufficient funding for the Games, projected to cost €57.5m. The European Olympic Committee president, Patrick Hickey said the news was "disappointing". Following this, a number of countries expressed interest in hosting the games: Belarus (Minsk), United Kingdom (Glasgow), Poland (Poznan), Russia (Kazan and Sochi), Turkey (Istanbul).


2019 European Games, Host selection
In November 2015, Russia was announced as a future host country for the II European Games. At the same time, the WADA began its investigation of the doping scandal in Russia which led to the IOC's refusal to support the holding of major sports events in Russia, including the second European Games.


2019 European Games, Host selection
During the meeting of the EOС General Assembly, held in Minsk on 21 October 2016, Minsk was selected as a host city for the second European Games. A contract was signed on 1 September 2017 by the chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Andrei Shorets, the president of the EOC Janez Kocijančič, the Minister of Sport and Tourism of Belarus Alexander Shamko, first Vice-President of the NOC of Belarus Andrey Astashevich, Director of the 2nd European Games 2019 Georgy Katulin, Secretary-General of the European Olympic Committees Rafael Pagnozzi.


2019 European Games, Organising Committee
On 12 May 2017, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on the Foundation of the Directorate of the II European Games 2019. The founders of the foundation are the National Olympic Committee, the Minsk City Executive Committee and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism. Georgy Katulin, General Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, was appointed the CEO of the foundation in August 2017. In November 2017, the management launched the official website of the games.


2019 European Games, Organising Committee
In April 2019, Lukashenko announced that the Games were on budget and on time and that "everything should meet the highest standards". Sergei Rumas, Belarus's prime minister and the head of the Organising Committee also said that all the facilities would be finished by 15 May and that "95 per cent of the equipment has already been installed".


2019 European Games, Organising Committee
On 20 May 2019, Lukashenko signed Decree No.191, entitled "On security measures during the 2nd European Games in Belarus". It gave the Ministry of Defence the power to restrict access to certain areas and placed a ban on drones, unmanned aerial vehicles and model aeroplanes at competition venues. Drones and planes violating the decree will be seized until 2 July, when the Games end.


2019 European Games, Volunteers
The start of the volunteer selection began in September 2017 during the "Dobrofest" and registration ended on 1 April 2019. In April 2019, the head of the volunteer network for the Games, Nadezhda Anisovets, said that the appeal resulted in 24,000 applications, much larger than the 8,000 needed for the Games. Most of them are students of Belarusian universities. Applications were also received from 52 other countries including Russia, Australia, the USA, Mexico, and Egypt. The basic requirements for the candidate are communication skills and high English-language proficiency. The selected volunteers will be involved in over 34 functional areas. Each volunteer will be given a special uniform, badges and souvenirs.


2019 European Games, Opening Ceremony
The Opening ceremony was held at National Olympic Stadium Dinamo and ran from 22:10 to 00:45 FET. It was produced by Russian company Art City 5, and was directed by Alexander Vavilov (Belarus) and Alexei Sechenov (Russia). Augmented reality imagery was used during the ceremony. The main musical performers were Anna Netrebko, Ilya Silchukov with Elena Salo and Dimash Kudaibergen. During the parade of nations, Greece entered the stadium first. The host nation Belarus marched last, while other countries entered in English alphabetical order.


2019 European Games, Opening Ceremony
Each delegation is escorted by girls in dresses representing the Kupala wheel, a symbol of the sun for Eastern Slavs decorated with traditional Belarusian ornaments. Attending the ceremony was President Alexander Lukashenko, who opened the games, Janez Kocijančič of the European Olympic Committee, as well as other foreign delegations such as Igor Dodon representing Moldova, Aleksandar Vučić representing Serbia as well as Dmitry Medvedev and Ramzan Kadyrov representing Russia. Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, who was due to attend the ceremony, left early due to the civil unrest in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.


2019 European Games, Closing Ceremony
The Closing ceremony was held at National Olympic Stadium Dinamo and ran from 22:00 to 23:50 FET. In attendance were IOC President Thomas Bach, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, and Armenian President Armen Sarkissian.


2019 European Games, Transportation
On 27 December 2017, it was announced about the finalising of the development of a comprehensive transport service plan for the competition, based on the needs of all stakeholders and the experience of the previous Olympic and European Games host cities: Beijing, London, Baku. The main goal of the developed plan is to optimise the routes in such a way that any participant can get to any stadium in no more than half an hour. Rail services between Masyukovshchina (Minsk-Arena), Belarus (regatta course Zaslawye) and Loshitsa (Čyžoŭka-Arena) will operate with higher frequency during the event. In addition, the existing bus network will be expanded by 10 to 12 new routes to the competition sites, which will run up to 300 buses and trolleybuses.


2019 European Games, Transportation
In August 2018, new digital information boards were unveiled in order to improve the public transport network for foreign visitors. Valery Shkuratov, the director of Metropolitan Transport and Communications (the firm which manage the transit systems in the city), said that more than 270 displays had already been installed.


2019 European Games, Transportation
In October 2018, it was announced that the Minsk metro would have full 4G coverage by the time the Games began. The next month, fourteen taxi companies in Minsk as well as several governmental and administrational departments signed a memorandum of understanding to guarantee fair prices during the Games. In March 2019, it was announced that the taxis adhering to the scheme would carry a logo to enable customers to identify them.


2019 European Games, Venues
The Organising committee plans to involve already existed sports facilities after their renovation. The Opening and closing ceremonies, as well as competitions in track and field, will be held at the Dinamo Stadium (Minsk, Kirov, 8).


2019 European Games, Venues
Athletes, team officials and other team personnel will stay on the grounds of Minsk University, which has the capacity to host up to 7,500 people. The students have been evicted for the duration of the Games and given alternative accommodation. Part of the village facilities has already been put into operation, part of it will be completed by April 2019. Each apartment has two bedrooms and can hold up to 4 people. The village also has a canteen, gym, merchandise store and cultural centre.


2019 European Games, Participating countries
Fifty European Olympic Committees member countries competed at the games. Numbers in brackets denote the number of athletes being sent to the Games.


2019 European Games, Games
A total of 15 sports were presented: archery, athletics, badminton, basketball 3-on-3, beach football, boxing, canoe sprint, cycling, gymnastics, judo, karate, sambo, shooting, table tennis and wrestling. A number of disciplines were dropped after the 2015 European Games: all aquatics (diving, swimming, synchronised swimming and water polo), BMX racing, mountain biking, fencing, taekwondo, triathlon and all volleyball (beach volleyball and indoor volleyball). Ten of the sports offered qualification opportunities for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.


2019 European Games, Games, Calendar
The competition schedule consists of 200 events. The agenda as the competition schedule may change.


2019 European Games, Games, Archery
At the 2019 European Games in Minsk, eight events of archery will be contested. Archers will shoot at the Olympic Sports Complex over seven days of competition. The 2019 Games will be the first to include compound archery.


2019 European Games, Games, Athletics
Athletics competitions will held be from 23 to 28 June at the Dinamo Stadium with a seating capacity of 22,000. Athletes will compete over six days in men's, women's and mixed track and fields events.


2019 European Games, Games, Badminton
Badminton competition will take place at the Falcon Club with a seating capacity of 2,000 from 24 to 30 June. The competition will be held over a seven-day period and include five medal events in men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed.


2019 European Games, Games, Basketball 3x3
Basketball competitions will be held from 21 to 24 June at the Palova Arena with a seating capacity of 1,000. The competition will take place in the half-court 3x3 format, and both the men's and women's tournaments will feature 128 athletes.


2019 European Games, Games, Beach soccer
The beach soccer tournament will be held from 25 to 29 June at the Olympic Sports Complex with a seating capacity of 1,500. Ninety-six male athletes will compete over five days of competition.


2019 European Games, Games, Boxing
Boxing competitions will be held from 21 to 30 June at the URUCHIE Sports Palace. The competition consists ten weights events for men and five for women.


2019 European Games, Games, Canoe sprint
Canoeing will be contested between 25 and 27 June at the ZASLAVL Regatta Course. A total of sixteen medal events in canoe and kayak across both genders will be held. The European Games will replace the 2019 Canoe Sprint European Championships. Therefore, the winners of each discipline will be considered as European Champion 2019.


2019 European Games, Games, Cycling
Two disciplines of cycling will be contested at the games: road cycling and track cycling. A total of 24 medal events will be held. Competitions on-road cycling will take place in Minsk city and region from 22 to 25 June. Competitions on track cycling will take place at Minsk Arena velodrome from 27 to 30 June. Road cycling will take place in Minsk City centre.


2019 European Games, Games, Gymnastics
Gymnastics at the games will be held in five categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining, acrobatics, and aerobics. All competitions will take place at the Minsk-Arena with a seating capacity of 8,000. The acrobatics competitions will take place from 22 to 23 June. The competition will be held over a two-day period and include six medal events in women's trios and mixed pairs. Competitions on aerobics will take place from 24 to 25 June. The competition will be held over a two-day period and include two medal events in mixed pairs and teams.


2019 European Games, Games, Gymnastics
The gymnastic trampoline competitions will take place from 24 to 25 June. The competition will be held over a two-day period and include four medal events. The artistic gymnastics will take place from 27 to 30 June. The competition will be held over a four-day period and include twelve medal events. The rhythmic gymnastics will take place from 22 to 23 June. The competition will be held over a two-day period and include eight medal events.


2019 European Games, Games, Judo
Judo competitions will be held from 22 to 25 June at the Čyžoŭka-Arena with a seating capacity of 8,800. The competition will consist of seven weight events and one team event in each gender; a total of 15 medal events. The European Games will replace the Judo European Championship.


2019 European Games, Games, Karate
Karate competitions will be held from 29 to 30 June at the Čyžoŭka-Arena with a seating capacity of 8,800. The competition will consist of twelve events, six in each gender—individual Kata and ten weighted Kumite.


2019 European Games, Games, Sambo
Sambo competitions will take place at the Minsk Sports Palace from 22 to 23 June and will consist of 18 events, nine in each gender.


2019 European Games, Games, Shooting
Shooting at the games will be held in two categories: shooting rifle and pistol and shooting shotgun. Competitions on shooting rifle and pistol will take place at the Shooting Center from 22 to 29 June. Competitions on shooting shotgun will take place at the Sporting Club from 22 to 28 June. In total, the competition will be held over an eight-day period and include nineteen medal events.


2019 European Games, Games, Table tennis
Table tennis will take place from 22 to 29 June at Tennis Olympic Center with a seating capacity of 1,000. Athletes will compete in five events.


2019 European Games, Games, Wrestling
The wrestling events will be held at the Minsk Sports Palace with a seating capacity 3,300 from 25 to 30 June. 18 events will be held, six events in freestyle for men, six events for women, and six in the Greco-Roman style for men.


2019 European Games, Marketing, Logo
The prototype for creating the 2nd European Games' logo in Minsk was the Kupala fire and "paparat-kvetka", which plays an important role in the Slavic culture. According to legend, "paparat-kvetka" blossoms once a year at midnight on Kupala Night. Anyone who sees this flowering will become the owner of unusual abilities and talents.


2019 European Games, Marketing, Mascot
In autumn of 2017, an open republican contest for the development of the mascot of the European Games was announced. Anyone could take part in the competition. Over 2,000 variants were collected from professionals and amateurs. The public presentation of the winning version took place in Minsk on 29 November 2018. The mascot chosen was a baby fox named "Lesik" who wears a shirt and shorts with the colours of the games' logo and wears shoes and a baseball hat with the games' slogan.


2019 European Games, Marketing, Mascot
Lesik's story is based after The Little Prince, when after the Little Prince leaves Earth, Lesik the Fox misses his new friend and wants to make more. He learns of a legendary flower called the Paparats Kvetka which can help his dream come true, but he needs to travel 1 million steps to Belarus to find it. He represents friendship, development, harmony, discipline, determination, cheerfulness, invincibility and vigour, according to the mascot's creators.


2019 European Games, Marketing, Slogan
The slogan of the event is "Bright Year, Bright You! ", which also successfully points to the national domain of the Republic of Belarus and the official international abbreviation BY. The Belarusian equivalent of the slogan is the phrase "Час яскравых перамог! ", and the Russian is "Время ярких побед! ", literally "Time for bright victories!"


2019 European Games, Marketing, Torch relay
The torch relay "Flame of Peace" was planned for before the games. In addition to traditional running with a torch, there were also creative performances organised along the route. The torch relay will last for 50 days and will cover 7,700 km. The relay will include 450 torchbearers, 100 volunteers and 10 flame keepers. The torch relay will begin on 3 May in Rome.


2019 European Games, Marketing, Torch relay
The torch itself was designed by Yulia Braychuk, weighs 1.7 kg and is 81 cm tall. It is made from stainless steel and can be attached to a bike or wheelchair.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Selfie contest
The deadline for submitting the selfie photos was October 2018. The criteria for evaluating photos include compliance with the theme and conditions of the contest, as well as artistic taste and originality. The final results were to be announced in late December 2018; however, the competition was extended to the 31 December. It was then later announced that the deadline would be extended again to the 25 February 2019.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Selfie contest
The winners were awarded diplomas from Belteleradiocompany, as well as sets of tickets for the events of the European Games in Minsk and the official gear of the National Team of the Republic of Belarus. It happened on 21 June, nearly 30 minutes prior to Opening Ceremony of the Games.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Sponsors
Sponsorship was approved as one of the sources to reduce the number of budgetary funds for the games according to the decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of 12 May 2017 «On the Directorate of the second European Games 2019». On 15 December 2017, the official sponsor of the games became the operator of electronic interactive games «Sport Pari». On 22 December 2017, it was announced that the telecommunication operator velcom is the official telecommunication partner of the 2nd European Games of 2019.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Sponsors
In March 2019, the Games' Organising Committee signed a memorandum of understanding with UNAIDS to strengthen co-operation in promoting safe lifestyles, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and eliminating discrimination around the infection.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Stamps
On 1 February 2019, Belposhta, the Belarussian postal service, released the official stamps for the Games. The four designs depict a cyclist, a runner, a rower and a dancer and were designed by Marina Vitkovskaya, with 120,000 sets being printed. There was an official cancellation ceremony in Minsk City Hall on the day of release.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Broadcasting rights
In February 2019, International Sports Broadcasting, a Spanish firm, was chosen as the host broadcaster for the Games, beating Match TV and Medialuso-Mediapro. The company had previously broadcast the 1st European Games in Baku. In March 2019, ISB was allowed to sell global broadcasting rights for the Games, with around 117 countries that have already been granted viewing rights. ISB and the Games' organisers have expressed that they hope to broadcast to more than 160 countries.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Cultural Program
The European Games featured a cultural program that included historical European martial arts. The program consisted of a tournament with 28 unique nations from 3 continents competing in 4 different weapon categories. Also, there was an exhibition of rare, original swords, fencing treatises, and martial arts paraphernalia from the 15th through the early 20th centuries. The exhibition also featured a conference of lectures and presentations from scholars on historical martial arts on 21 June 2019.


2019 European Games, Promotion, Art exhibition
On 7 June 2019, an exhibition celebrating the Games and its cultural legacy called "The High Art of Sport", opened at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Minsk. The exhibition contained more than 500 items, including materials from the Belarusian State Archive and works from artists from 11 of the competing countries. It was to be run until 4 August.


2019 European Games medal table
The 2019 European Games was a multi-sport event held in Minsk, Belarus from 21 to 30 June 2019.


2019 European Games medal table
Athletes from 43 NOCs won medals, leaving 7 NOCs without a medal, and 34 of them won at least one gold medal. Russia led the medal table of the 2nd European Games. They led all the medal categories, winning the most gold medals (44, nearly 25 % of total gold medals), the most silver medals (24), the most bronze medals (41) and the most medals overall (109). Bosnia and Herzegovina and Luxembourg won their first medals on European Games.


2019 European Games medal table, Medal table
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.


2019 European Games medal table, Medal table
Seven nations which failed to win any medals: Albania, Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and North Macedonia.


2019 European Judo Championships
The 2019 European Judo Championships were held in Minsk, Belarus from 22 to 25 June 2019 during the 2019 European Games.


2019 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships
The 2019 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships took place in Rin Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania from 18 to 27 October 2019.


2019 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


2019 European Junior Karate Championships
The 46th 2019 European Junior Karate Championships were the edition of the European Karate Championships, and were held in Aalborg, Denmark from 8 to 10 February 2019 along with the Karate Junior & U21 Championships and it was organized by Dansk Karate Forbund.


2019 European Junior Karate Championships, Junior Kumite Male -55 KG
Luciano Carmine from Italy ranked first and won the gold medal in the Continental Championship with 930 points and a total of 5 matches won. Mikita Rashetnik from Belarus won the silver medal. Burak Ozdemir from Turkey and Victor Cuerva from Spain won bronze medals.


2019 European Junior Karate Championships, Junior Kumite Male -61 KG
Aminagha Guliyev from Azerbaijan ranked first and won the gold medal in the Continental Championship with 990 points and a total of 6  matches won. Amar Youness Oualad from Belgium won the silver medal. Aleksandre Tkvatsiria from Georgia and Brahim El Beqqal from France won bronze medals.


2019 European Junior Karate Championships, Junior Kumite Male -68 KG
Vladislav Taldykin from Russian Federation ranked first and won the gold medal in the Continental Championship with 990 points and a total of 6  matches won. Nguyen Hoang Ngan from Hungary won the silver medal. Yanis Lamotte from France and Daniele De Vivo from Italy won bronze medals.


2019 European Junior Karate Championships, Junior Kumite Male -76 KG
Raybak Abdesselem from France ranked first and won the gold medal in the Continental Championship with 990 points and a total of 6  matches won. Ilias Hounifa from Belgium won the silver medal. Andrii Zaplitnyi from Ukraine and Hasan Arslan from Turkey won bronze medals.


2019 European Junior Karate Championships, Junior Kumite Male +76 KG
Crean Christopher McCarthy from Ireland ranked first and won the gold medal in the Continental Championship with 990 points and a total of 6  matches won. Gligor Petkov from Macedonia won the silver medal. Tomas Kosa from Slovakia and Albert Baranov from Estonia won bronze medals.


2019 European Junior Swimming Championships
The 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 3 to 7 July 2019 in Kazan, Russia at the Palace of Water Sports. The Championships were organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and were held in a 50-meter pool. The Championships were for girls aged 14–17 and boys age 15–18.


2019 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships
The 2019 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia from 4 to 7 July 2019 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA) at the Ondrej Cibak Whitewater Slalom Course. It was the 21st edition of the competition for Juniors (U18) and the 17th edition for the Under 23 category. A total of 16 medal events took place, 8 in each of the two age categories.


2019 European Juniors Wrestling Championships
The 2019 European Juniors Wrestling Championships was held in Pontevedra, Spain between June 03 - 09, 2019.


2019 European Karate Championships
The 2019 European Karate Championships were the 54th edition of the European Karate Championships, and were held in Guadalajara, Spain from 28 to 31 May 2019.


2019 European Karate Championships, Para Karate
46 athletes from 16 nations in 6 events was competed in 2nd European Para Karate Championships. Results:


2019 European Le Mans Series
The 2019 European Le Mans Series was the sixteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 14 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 27 October.


2019 European Le Mans Series
The series is open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.


2019 European Le Mans Series, Calendar
The provisional calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 21 September 2018. The calendar comprises six events, with the only change from the 2018 season being the addition of a race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, which replaces the Red Bull Ring as the third round of the season.


2019 European Le Mans Series, Calendar
In April 2019, it was announced that the round in Barcelona would be held as an evening race, taking place on the Saturday evening of the event instead of the originally scheduled Sunday afternoon, primarily due to the anticipated hot weather in Spain in July.


2019 European Le Mans Series, Calendar
The round at Silverstone is once again held in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship.


2019 European Le Mans Series, Entries, LMP2
In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.


2019 European Le Mans Series, Entries, LMP3
All cars in the LMP3 class use the Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.


2019 European Le Mans Series, Results
To be classified a car will have to cross  the  finish  line  on  the  race  track  when the  chequered  flag  is  shown,  except  in  a  case  of force majeure at the Stewards’ discretion and have  covered  at  least  70% (the  official  number  of  laps  will  be  rounded down to the nearest whole number) of the  distance  covered  by  the  car  classified  in  first  place  in  the overall classification.


2019 European Masters Games
The 2019 European Masters Games is the fourth edition of the multi-sport event for masters sport, scheduled to take place between 26 July – 4 August 2019 in Turin in Italy. It featured 28 sports, mostly for people aged 35 and above, although some disciplines will allow younger athletes to participate.


2019 European Masters Games, Sports, Paralympic Sports
During the European Masters Games Torino 2019 for disabled athletes it will be possible to participate in the disciplines of the following sports:ArcheryAthleticsSwimming


2019 European Masters Games, Sports, Paralympic Sports
For further details, please consult the disability codes listed in the specific sport guides.


2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships
The 2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 13–17 February 2019 and organised by Badminton Europe and Denmark's Badminton Union.


2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships, Qualification, Qualification stage
The qualification stage was held between 7–9 December 2018 in 7 cities across Europe.


2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships group stage
The following results are the 2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships's main draw.


2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships qualification stage
The following results are the 2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships's qualification stage.


2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships qualification stage, Summary
The qualification stage was held between 7–9 December 2018 in 7 cities across Europe.


2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships squads
This article lists the confirmed squads lists for badminton's 2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships.


2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships was held in Bath, Great Britain from 6 to 11 August 2019. The event was to be the 27th edition of the competition, and the third held in Great Britain.


2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships
The event was a direct qualification event for the 2020 Summer Olympics, with the eight highest finishers in the men's and women's individual events gaining quota places for their National Olympic Committee at the 2020 Games.


2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships, Olympic Qualifiers
The following pentathletes secured qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games:


2019 European Motocross Championship
The 2019 European Motocross Championship was the 31st European Motocross Championship season since it was revived in 1988. It included 15 events and 5 different classes. It started at Matterley Basin in Great Britain on 24 March, and ended at Imola in Italy on 22 September. All rounds acted as support classes at the European rounds of the 2019 MXGP.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX250
A 9-round calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 25 October 2018. EMX250 is for riders competing on 4-stroke motorcycles between 175cc-250cc. For 2019, an age restriction has been placed on the class, meaning only riders under the age of 23 are allowed to compete.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX125
An 8-round calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 25 October 2018. EMX125 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 125cc.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX2T
A 7-round calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 25 October 2018. EMX2T is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 250cc.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX85
A 1-round calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 25 October 2018. EMX85 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 85cc.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX85, Participants
Riders qualify for the championship by finishing in the top 10 in one of the 4 regional 85cc championships.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX65
A 1-round calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 25 October 2018. EMX65 is for riders competing on 2-stroke motorcycles of 65cc.


2019 European Motocross Championship, EMX65, Participants
Riders qualify for the championship by finishing in the top 10 in one of the 4 regional 65cc championships.


2019 European Mountain Bike Championships
The 2019 European Mountain Bike Championships was the 29th holding of the European Mountain Bike Championships, an annual mountain biking competition organized by the Union Européenne de Cyclisme (UEC). The championships comprised seven disciplines: downhill, cross-country cycling (XC), cross-country marathon (XCM), cross-country ultra-marathon, cross-country eliminator (XCE), trials, and beach race. The competitions for each discipline were held on different dates and at different venues, the only exceptions being cross-country and cross-country eliminator, which were contested on the same dates and in the same location.


2019 European Netball Championship
The 2019 European Netball Championship were held in Belfast from 27-29 September 2019.


2019 European Open
The 2019 European Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the European Open and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It took place at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, from October 14 to October 20.


2019 European Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 European Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:


2019 European Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 European Open – Doubles
Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin were the defending champions, but Mahut chose not to defend the title and Roger-Vasselin chose to compete in Stockholm instead.


2019 European Open – Doubles
Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies won the title, defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the final, 7–6(7–1), 6–3.


2019 European Open – Singles
Kyle Edmund was the defending champion, but lost in the first round of qualifying to Norbert Gombos.


2019 European Open – Singles
Andy Murray won the title, defeating Stan Wawrinka in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4. This was Murray's first singles title since winning the 2017 Dubai Tennis Championships. This was also Murray's first appearance in an ATP singles final since returning to the ATP Tour after his career-saving hip resurfacing operation.


2019 European Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2019 European Pairs Speedway Championship
The 2019 European Pairs Speedway Championship was the 16th edition of the European Pairs Speedway Championship. The final was held in Balakovo, Russia on 29 August.


2019 European Pairs Speedway Championship
The title was won by Russia for the first time.


2019 European Parliament election
An election to the European Parliament was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states. In February 2018, the European Parliament had voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019.


2019 European Parliament election
However, the United Kingdom participated alongside other EU member states after an extension of Article 50 to 31 October 2019; therefore, the allocation of seats between the member states and the total number of seats remained as it had been in 2014. The Ninth European Parliament had its first plenary session on 2 July 2019.


2019 European Parliament election
On 26 May 2019, the European People's Party led by Manfred Weber won the most seats in the European Parliament, making Weber the leading candidate to become the next President of the European Commission. Despite this, the European Council decided after the election to nominate Ursula von der Leyen as new Commission President. The centre-left and centre-right parties suffered significant losses, while pro-EU centrist, liberal and environmentalist parties and anti-EU right-wing populist parties made substantial gains.


2019 European Parliament election, New law
On 7 June 2018, the Council agreed at ambassador level to change the EU electoral law and to reform old laws from the 1976 Electoral Act. The purpose of the reform is to increase participation in elections, raise understanding of their European character and prevent irregular voting while at the same time respecting the constitutional and electoral traditions of the member states. The reform forbids double voting and voting in third countries, thus improving the visibility of European political parties. To avoid double voting, contact authorities are established to exchange data on voters, a process that has to start at least six weeks before the elections.


2019 European Parliament election, New law
The European Parliament gave its consent on 4 July 2018 and the Act was adopted by the Council on 13 July 2018. However, not all member states ratified the Act prior to the 2019 elections and therefore this election took place in line with the previous rules.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates
The Spitzenkandidat process involves the nomination by European political parties of candidates for the role of Commission President, the party winning the most seats in the European Parliament receiving the first opportunity to attempt to form a majority to back their candidate (akin to how heads of government are elected in national parliamentary democracies). This process was first used in 2014 and was opposed by some in the European Council. The future of the process is uncertain, but the European Parliament has attempted to codify the process and the parties are almost certain to select the candidates again.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates
On 23 January 2018, the Constitutional Affairs Committee adopted a text stating that the Spitzenkandidat process could not be overturned, and that Parliament "will be ready to reject any candidate in the investiture procedure of the Commission President who was not appointed as a Spitzenkandidat in the run-up to the European elections".


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates
In May 2018 a Eurobarometer poll suggested that 49% of the 27,601 individuals from all 28 EU countries surveyed think that the Spitzenkandidat process will help them vote in the next European elections while 70% also think that the process requires a real debate on European issues.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, European People's Party
Incumbent Jean-Claude Juncker stated he would not seek a second term as President of the European Commission.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, European People's Party
At their 2018 Congress in Helsinki, the EPP elected Manfred Weber as their Spitzenkandidat for President of the European Commission.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Party of European Socialists
Previous candidate Martin Schulz left the European Parliament in 2017 to head the Social Democratic Party of Germany, but he stepped down from the latter position in 2018.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Party of European Socialists
Two candidates were nominated by PES member parties and organisations:


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Party of European Socialists
Šefčovič announced his withdrawal in November and supported Frans Timmermans as the Common Candidate.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Party of European Socialists
The party will convene an extraordinary Congress in Lisbon to ratify the election of the candidate and to vote upon the manifesto.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, European Conservatives and Reformists
Jan Zahradil, an MEP for the Czech Civic Democratic Party, is the Spitzenkandidat of the European Conservatives and Reformists.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, European Green Party
As in 2014, the Greens adopted the principle of having two leading candidates for the European Elections 2019. Unlike in 2014, where the candidates were chosen through an open online primary elections, the two leading candidates were elected by the Council of the Party in Berlin in November 2018. Four people, two of them being currently MEPs, have declared their candidacy:


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, European Green Party
At their 2018 Congress in Berlin, the party elected Ska Keller and Bas Eickhout as their Spitzenkandidaten for the President of the European Commission.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, European Free Alliance
Oriol Junqueras, a Catalan historian, academic and former Vice President of Catalonia who is currently imprisoned because of his involvement in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, is the Spitzenkandidat of the European Free Alliance.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats
Rather than present a single candidate, the ALDE group presented a Team Europe of seven people as the alliance's leading candidates:


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Party of the European Left
The designated candidates are Violeta Tomič from Slovenia and Belgian trade-unionist Nico Cué.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Populist and Eurosceptic groups
The Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy was widely expected to disband after the election. One reason was that its biggest share of MEPs came from the United Kingdom, which was long expected to leave the EU before the election. The second was that the second-biggest partner, Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S), felt uneasy about this alliance anyway, having unsuccessfully tried to join the Greens/EFA or ALDE group instead. In February 2019, M5S alongside partners from Croatia, Finland, Greece and Poland presented a new alliance of anti-establishment parties that claim to be neither left nor right.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Populist and Eurosceptic groups
The Movement is an alliance of populist parties set up by Steve Bannon in 2018 with the purpose of contesting the European elections. Participating parties included, at least temporarily, Lega Nord, People's Party of Belgium and Brothers of Italy and possibly French National Rally. Originally envisioned as an attempt to unite the populist parties in Europe, The Movement has so far been snubbed by the Alternative for Germany, the Freedom Party of Austria and the UK Independence Party. In March 2019, reporters assessed Bannon's project as a failure. Shortly ahead of the election, Marine Le Pen of the French National Rally distanced herself from Bannon, clarifying that he played no role in her party's campaign.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, Populist and Eurosceptic groups
In April 2019, Matteo Salvini of Italy's Lega launched the European Alliance of Peoples and Nations as a new coalition of populist, hard Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties. It has been joined by most of the members of the outgoing Europe of Nations and Freedom group (including Lega, the French National Rally, Freedom Party of Austria and the Dutch Party for Freedom) as well as some former EFDD (Alternative for Germany) and ECR parties (Danish People's Party and Finns Party). It has been predicted to become the fourth largest group in parliament with an estimate of more than 80 MEPs.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, New parties
2019 saw the debut of new  parties such as Wiosna of Poland, Czech Pirate Party of Czech Republic, USR-PLUS of Romania, Human Shield and Most of Croatia, ĽSNS and Progressive Slovakia of Slovakia. Some of the new parties have already joined European parties, e.g. LMŠ of Slovenia is a member of ALDE.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, New parties
The biggest new party is La République En Marche! (LREM) of French President Emmanuel Macron that was formed in 2016 and won the French presidential and parliamentary elections of the following year. Initially, it balked at joining any of the existing party families, instead trying to form a new parliamentary group of pro-European centrists who support Macron's plans to reform the European institutions, drawing away members from ALDE, EPP and S&D. Possible partners for such a project were expected to include Spanish Ciudadanos, Progressive Slovakia and the Hungarian Momentum Movement.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, New parties
However, the hypothetical group was considered to have difficulties to find MEPs from at least seven member states as is required to form a new group. In November 2018, LREM decided to cooperate with the liberal ALDE group instead. Nevertheless, Macron stressed that this was merely a loose alliance and his party is not a member of the ALDE Europarty. He bluntly criticised ALDE for accepting donations from the Bayer-Monsanto chemical group while LREM's campaign chief threatened to recall the alliance. In April and May 2019, LREM continued its efforts to build a broader group, including ALDE, but also centrist and centre-left parties outside of ALDE.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, New parties
The new Brexit Party won 29 seats in the United Kingdom.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, New parties
The European Spring initiated from the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 ran as a pan-European party alliance with one unified vision for Europe, the European Green New Deal. The most prominent figure is the former Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis, who ran as a candidate in the constituency of Germany, but failed to secure a seat. Despite garnering approximately one and a half million votes, no representatives who ran DiEM25 were elected, due to the votes being dispersed throughout different EU countries.


2019 European Parliament election, Political groups and candidates, New parties
As a new pan-European party, Volt Europa was founded in different European countries two years before the elections and successfully campaigned in eight EU countries for the elections with one transnational programme. Despite missing its own goal to create a parliamentary group on its own, approximately half a million votes in total were sufficient to send one of the founders, Damian Boeselager, into the European Parliament via a German Volt list. Since June 2019, Volt is part of the group of the Greens/EFA.


2019 European Parliament election, Post-Brexit seats
In June 2018, the European Council decided to reapportion 27 of the 73 seats which would become vacant in the event of the United Kingdom leaving the EU. As the United Kingdom was still a member of the EU at the time of the election, the elections were held with the same allocation of seats as in 2014. When the United Kingdom left the EU, 27 of the seats were reallocated to other EU member states as shown below, resulting in a total of 705 MEPs.


2019 European Parliament election, Post-Brexit seats, Changes in group representation
The table below shows the changes in group composition after the United Kingdom left the EU.


2019 European Parliament election, Seat projections
There were no pan-European polls for the European elections. However, several organisations calculated the theoretical seat distribution in the European Parliament based on national polls in all member states. The table below displays these different projections. Since the United Kingdom notified its intention to leave the European Union in March 2017, the United Kingdom was expected not to participate in the European elections and was therefore excluded from projections. On 10 April 2019, the European Council extended the Brexit deadline to 31 October 2019, and the UK did participate in the European elections. The UK was included in most projections after that date.


2019 European Parliament election, Seat projections, Percent
The following table shows projections with vote share instead of seats.


2019 European Parliament election, Aftermath, President of the Commission Approval
The heads of governments, gathered in a European Council on 1–3 July 2019, could not agree on a consensus President of the Commission. The two Spitzenkandidaten were discussed, but neither Manfred Weber (EPP), nor Frans Timmermans (PES), who had the backing of many leaders but not of those from the Visegrad Group, had a majority.


2019 European Parliament election, Aftermath, President of the Commission Approval
In the final hours, the name of Ursula von der Leyen was suggested and agreed to by all governments, with Germany's abstention.


2019 European Parliament election, Aftermath, President of the Commission Approval
The European Parliament voted to approve her nomination on 16 July.


2019 European Parliament election, Aftermath, President of the Commission Approval
Le Grand Continent published a detailed analysis of the secret ballot. The authors numbered the public pledges of national delegations and individual MEPs as amounting to 410, which is 27 more than what von der Leyen ultimately received.


2019 European Parliament election, Aftermath, President of the Commission Approval
To explain the difference, they suggest three scenarios: one in which the support of delegations from the S&D group (some for, some against, some equivocal) was lower than admitted, another in which MEPs from the populist parties in government (Poland's PiS, Hungary's Fidesz and Italy's M5S) were claiming support only to gain leverage, and a half-way scenario which they see as the likeliest. In two of these three scenarios, the S&D group, which for decades was the pillar of the Grand coalition in Europe, no longer has a majority of MEPs supporting the Commission.


2019 European Parliament election in Aosta Valley
The European Parliament election of 2019 took place in Italy on 26 May 2019.


2019 European Parliament election in Aosta Valley
In Aosta Valley Lega Nord came first with 37.2% of the vote (country-level result 34.3%) and more than 20pp than the Democratic Party, which came second with 16.2% of the vote. Autonomies for Europe, a five-party regional coalition including the Valdostan Union, came third with 13.9% of the vote, ahead of the Five Star Movement (9.7%), Forza Italia (5.4%), Green Europe (4.7%), More Europe (3.7%), Brothers of Italy (3.3%) and The Left (2.7%).


2019 European Parliament election in Austria
The 2019 European Parliament election was held in Austria on 26 May 2019 to elect the country's 18 members of the European Parliament. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) gained two seats for a total of seven, while the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and The Greens each lost one.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria
The election took place nine days after the start of the Ibiza affair, which led to the resignation of Vice-Chancellor and FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache and the collapse of the federal ÖVP–FPÖ government. The European election was seen as a victory for the ÖVP and a defeat for the FPÖ, who were forecasted to perform substantially better.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties elected in the 2014 European Parliament election.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Contesting parties
Seven parties contested the election. In addition to the five already represented in the European Parliament, two more collected enough signatures to appear on the ballot:


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Facts and statistics
According to final numbers, a total of 6,416,202 people aged 16+ are eligible to vote in this election, an increase from 6,410,602 people in the 2014 election. 3,312,745 women (2014: 3,322,498) and 3,103,457 men (2014: 3,088,104) are eligible to vote. Included in these totals are 44,718 Austrians living abroad and 38,668 foreign EU-citizens living in Austria.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Facts and statistics
Poll opening and closing times on election day are set individually by each municipality. Poll closing times can be no later than 5 pm. Results will be released at 11 pm (after Italy closes their polls).


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Facts and statistics
Voters are allowed to cast their vote by postal ballot. Postal ballots have to arrive at the district voting commission no later than 5 pm on election day and will be counted on Monday, 27 May – starting at 9 am.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Facts and statistics
A total of 686,249 postal ballots have been requested by voters, up from 444,057 – an increase of 55% – compared with the 2014 election.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Campaign
In the lead up to the 2019 European Parliament election in Austria, in what The Guardian described as "doubling down" on rhetoric ahead of the election, FPO Vice Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache endorsed the far-right conspiracy of the great replacement. He claimed that "population replacement" was real, adding: "We don’t want to become a minority in our own country".


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Ibiza affair
The Ibiza affair (German: Ibiza-Affäre), also known as Ibiza-gate, was a political scandal in Austria involving Heinz-Christian Strache, the former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Johann Gudenus, a deputy leader of the Freedom Party, and both the Austrian Freedom Party and Austria's political landscape in general.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Ibiza affair
The scandal started on 17 May 2019 with the publication of a secretly recorded video of a meeting in Ibiza, Spain, in July 2017, which appears to show the then opposition politicians Strache and Gudenus discussing their party's underhanded practices and intentions. In the video, both politicians appeared receptive to proposals by a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch, discussing how to provide the FPÖ with positive news coverage in return for government contracts. Strache and Gudenus also hinted at corrupt political practices involving numerous other wealthy donors to the FPÖ in Europe and elsewhere.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Ibiza affair
The scandal caused the resignation of Strache and Gudenus, the collapse of the Austrian governing ÖVP-FPÖ coalition on 18 May 2019 and the announcement of an early legislative election in September.


2019 European Parliament election in Austria, Results
The numbers in brackets denote changes in seat distribution caused by Brexit.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium
The European Parliament election of 2019 in Belgium was held on 26 May 2019 in the three Belgian constituencies: the Dutch-speaking electoral college, the French-speaking electoral college and the German-speaking electoral college.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium
A royal order of 15 June 2018 fixed the date of the European Parliament election in Belgium, following an agreement at European level. Per the Belgian Constitution, the Belgian regional elections, and additionally the Belgian federal election because no snap election occurred, were automatically held on the same day.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium
Marianne Thyssen, who was re-elected Member of the European Parliament in 2014 as lijsttrekker for CD&V and who subsequently became European Commissioner, announced in July 2018 that she would quit politics in 2019.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium, Electoral system
As the reapportionment after Brexit did not impact the number of seats allocated to Belgium, 21 MEPs were elected in Belgium, as in the 2014 election. One of them is by law allocated to the German-speaking electoral college and the remaining ones are allocated to the Dutch-speaking and to the French-speaking electoral college in accordance with a population formula, giving them respectively twelve and eight seats, as in 2014.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium, Electoral system
Voters could only vote on the lists depending on the language area they live in. This means that in the bilingual arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, voters could choose whether to vote for the Dutch-speaking or for the French-speaking electoral college. There was an exception to this rule for the six municipalities with language facilities in the Brussels Periphery, whose inhabitants could also opt to vote for French-speaking lists despite being in the Dutch language area.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium, Electoral system
Seats were allocated according to the D'Hondt method in each of the three electoral colleges; however, the German-speaking electoral college de facto used a first-past-the-post system, since it elected only one MEP. The electoral threshold was 5%, which was based on the vote share per electoral college rather than nationally.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium, Electoral system
All Belgian citizens aged 18 or over and residing in Belgium were obligated to participate in the election.


2019 European Parliament election in Belgium, Electoral system
Other EU citizens residing in Belgium as well as Belgians living in another EU member state had the right to vote on Belgian lists in European Parliament elections. The law of 17 November 2016 extended this right to Belgians living in a non-EU member state, which was already possible for federal elections.


2019 European Parliament election in Bulgaria
The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the 5th delegation from Bulgaria to the European Parliament were held on 26 May 2019. All seats were up for election. The country forms a single constituency, with members elected by proportional representation using open lists.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
The 2019 European Parliament election in Croatia were held on 26 May 2019, electing members of the national Croatia constituency to the European Parliament. These were the third such elections in the country since its accession to the European Union in 2013.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
It was the first election to be held nationally since the 2016 parliamentary election, following which the center-right HDZ had formed a coalition government, first with the center-right MOST and later - in June 2017, with the centrist HNS. The European Parliament elections were therefore viewed as a major test for the center-left SDP, which had contested all previous nationwide elections since 2011 as part of a coalition, but chose to stand in this election alone.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
The elections as such was deemed important to showcase whether the SDP could remain the largest opposition party, having been faced with months of falling opinion poll ratings. Its main contenders for such a position within the political system were the anti-establishment, eurosceptic Živi zid party, and the newly formed center-left Amsterdam Coalition.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
The election resulted in the two largest parties in the country, the ruling centre-right HDZ, and the opposition centre-left SDP, winning an equal number of seats - each taking 4. SDP won in all four of the largest Croatian cities: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The remaining four seats were evenly divided between the right-wing Croatian Sovereignists coalition, the centre-left Amsterdam Coalition, the anti-establishment Živi zid party and the independent list led by jurist Mislav Kolakušić.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
The strong performance of right-wing and far-right parties, such as the Croatian Sovereignists coalition and Independents for Croatia-HSP coalition, is thought to have greatly contributed to the surprisingly poor result of the HDZ, notably by significantly reducing its support among members of the Croatian diaspora, who had registered a record turnout in this election.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
Another surprise in the elections was the large number of votes received by Zagreb jurist Mislav Kolakušić and his independent list - which was something not predicted by opinion polls, as well as the failures of MOST to attain a seat and of independent incumbent MEP Marijana Petir to retain her seat (which she had held since 2014).


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia
At the previous election in 2014, Croatia was allocated 11 seats and is set to receive one additional seat following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU. All seats were up for election and the whole country forms a single constituency, with the 12 members elected by proportional representation using open lists and the D'Hondt method.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign
A total of 33 valid candidate slates with 396 candidates were submitted for the upcoming European Parliament election. The lists were published by the State Election Commission on 10 April, when the official election campaign began that will last for 45 days.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Croatian Democratic Union
The slate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the ruling centre-right party of Croatia and member of the European People's Party (EPP), was led by 30-year-old Karlo Ressler, who was nominated by the youth branch of the party. The slate also includes two current MEPs, three members of the Croatian Parliament, and two county prefects. The party platform for the election was called "Croatia for Generations". Croatian Prime Minister and HDZ President Andrej Plenković said that the election is a choice between a political course of Croatia's development and a backward course that would isolate Croatia. The main campaign rally of the HDZ, held in Zagreb, was attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Manfred Weber, EPP's candidate for European Commission (EC) President. Both of them urged voters to reject nationalism in the upcoming election.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Social Democratic Party of Croatia
The slate of the main opposition party, the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) of the Party of European Socialists (PES), was led by current MEP Tonino Picula. While presenting the party list, Picula said that Croatia had not taken full advantage of its membership in the EU. The SDP was expecting to win three seats in the upcoming election. The campaign event in Rijeka, where the SDP is in power, was attended by Frans Timmermans, the candidate of the PES for president of the EC, alongside SDP President Davor Bernardić. Bernardić accused the HDZ for "failing to salvage" the Croatian shipyards in Rijeka and Pula, in cooperation with the EC.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Amsterdam Coalition
The list of the Amsterdam Coalition, a coalition of seven parties, including the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), the Civic Liberal Alliance (GLAS), and the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), was headed by Istria County prefect Valter Flego of the IDS. GLAS President Anka Mrak Taritaš presented the list as a rejection of a "Europe of barbed wire fences and the Brexit chaos", and said that the coalition advocates an open and free Europe. HSS President Krešo Beljak said that the vote for the coalition is a vote for a European Croatia.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Živi zid
The populist Živi zid party announced a joint platform with Italy's Five Star Movement, Kukiz'15 from Poland, and Greece's AKKEL. The 1st candidate on the slate of the Živi zid was its secretary-general Tihomir Lukanić. Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, the president of the party, presented the platform as a new generation of politicians that will fight against corruption and organised crime.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Bridge of Independent Lists
The slate of the Bridge of Independent Lists (Most) was led by its president, Božo Petrov. If elected, Petrov would have given up his seat in the European Parliament to the next candidate with most preferential votes. Prior to the start of the campaign, the Most party attempted to filibuster a bill that would increase the spending limits for the European election, but the bill was passed by the Croatian Parliament just before the deadline. The party has not joined any of the European political groups and announced the work within the non-affiliated Non-Inscrits.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Independents for Croatia–Croatian Party of Rights
Two right-wing parties, the Independents for Croatia (NHR) and the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), formed a coalition and emphasized a Europe of "free, sovereign and independent nations" as the main agenda. Their slate included both parties' presidents, Bruna Esih of the NHR and Karlo Starčević of the HSP.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Croatian Sovereignists
The Croatian Sovereignists coalition was formed by four right-wing parties: the Croatian Conservative Party (HKS), the Croatian Growth (Hrast), the Croatian Party of Rights Dr. Ante Starčević (HSP AS), and the United Croatian Patriots (UHD). Its list was led by current MEP Ruža Tomašić of the HKS, who won a mandate in 2013 and in 2014 on the HDZ-led Patriotic Coalition slate.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Independent Democratic Serb Party
The Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), the largest party of the Serbs of Croatia, ran independently for the first time in the European election. Although there were speculations that the SDSS might leave the ruling coalition, its leader Milorad Pupovac confirmed that the SDSS will remain a part it, following a meeting with Prime Minister Plenković. Campaign was marked by SDSS jumbo posters with inscription "Do you know how it is to be a Serb in Croatia?" in which a word Serb was written in Serbian Cyrillic. Jović was second on the list, just behind party leader Milorad Pupovac. As it was expected by campaign leaders jumbo posters were target of widespread nationalist vandalism and destruction which underlined the issue of ethnic intolerance and discrimination.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Other electoral lists
The Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS–LD), the junior partner in the governing coalition, also ran independently, with Međimurje County Prefect Matija Posavec leading the list.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Campaign, Other electoral lists
Current MEP Marijana Petir, who was elected in 2014 on the HDZ-led coalition slate, ran as an independent candidate, with a campaign focused on agrarian issues.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Polls
The following graph depicts the evolution of standings of the two main political parties and other parties in the poll since the parliamentary elections 2003.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Results
The ruling HDZ won 22.72% of the vote and 4 seats in the European Parliament. The SDP, the main opposition party, also won 4 seats in the parliament, with 18.71% of the popular vote. The SDP will gain the fourth seat after the United Kingdom leaves the EU. The Croatian Soverignists coalition, the independent list of Mislav Kolakušić, the Živi Zid party, and the Amsterdam Coalition won one seat each. The voter turnout was 29.9%, up from 25.2% in the 2014 election.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Results
Prime Minister Plenković admitted that he expected more votes. The elected MEP's of the HDZ list are Karlo Ressler, Dubravka Šuica, Tomislav Sokol and Željana Zovko. SDP President Davor Bernardić was satisfied with the results, which exceeded his expectations. The elected MEP's of the SDP are Biljana Borzan, Tonino Picula, Predrag Fred Matić and Romana Jerković. Jerković will take her seat after Brexit. Ruža Tomašić of the Croatian Sovereignists won the highest number of preferential votes and retained her seat in the parliament. The biggest surprise of the election was Kolakušić's independent list, which won 7.89% of the vote. Kolakušić announced a presidential campaign the day after the election.


2019 European Parliament election in Croatia, Results
Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, the president of the Živi zid party, won most preferential votes on his party list and a place in the parliament ahead of the slate leader, Tihomir Lukanić. The Amsterdam Coalition's main candidate, Valter Flego, won a seat in the parliament.


2019 European Parliament election in Cyprus
The 2019 European Parliament election in Cyprus was held on 26 May 2019 to elect the country's six representatives to the European Parliament.


2019 European Parliament election in Cyprus
The Democratic Rally (DISY) has won every election to the European Parliament since Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004.


2019 European Parliament election in Cyprus
According to final results, DISY again won the election with 29% and 2 seats. There were no changes in seat allocation, with AKEL also at 2 seats after securing 27% of the vote. DIKO and EDEK had 1 seat each, with 14% and 11% of the vote, respectively.


2019 European Parliament election in Cyprus
In terms of percentage, this was EDEK's best European elections result since 2004 (although that year it did not win any seats). Some attributed this in part to tactical voting, with many fearing the far-right ELAM gaining a seat had it finished fourth.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark
The 2019 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 26 May 2019, and elected the Danish members to the European Parliament. The elections are part of the EU-wide elections for the parliament. Denmark has 13 seats in parliament, and which will be increased by one additional seat, once Brexit comes into force.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark
Venstre won the election, becoming the biggest party and gaining two seats. The election was a disaster for the Danish People's Party, who lost three of their four seats. Both the Social People's Party and the Social Liberals won doubles their seats from one to two. The People's Movement against the EU lost the representation in the parliament they have had since 1979.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark
The election were held 10 days before general elections in Denmark.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Background
In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party (DPP) became the largest party, gaining 4 seats overall, and the lead candidate, Morten Messerschmidt, received 465.758 individual votes, a new record.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Background
In October 2015, Rikke Karlson, another member of the DPP-group in the parliament, left the party due to lack of internal transparency into documents related to MELD and the associated foundation FELD. The following media attention revealed that MELD and DPP had misused EU funding, and Messerschmidt were forced to resign as leader of the parliamentary group. He was replaced by Anders Visitisen.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Background
In December 2015, Jens Rohde, elected MEP as a member of Venstre, left the party due to discontent with the parties increasingly tougher policy on immigration, passed in cooperation with DPP. Rohde joined the Social Liberals instead. In February 2016, Ulla Tørnæs from Venstre left the parliament to become Minister for Science, Technology, Information and Higher Education. Morten Løkkegaard became the new Venstre MEP.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Parties contesting
All parties represented in the Folketing participate in the election, in addition to the People's Movement against the EU. In previous elections, the Red-Green Alliance have declined to contest, but instead supported the People's Movement against the EU. This is the first European Parliament election that The Alternative participate in.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Parties contesting
The Alternative is contesting the election as a member of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a pan-European political movement who have a common political manifest. In April 2019, DPP was among the founding members of the European Alliance of People and Nations, a new coalition who aim to create a broader nationalist group after the election. If elected, the Liberal Alliance wishes to join ALDE, and the Red-Green Alliance wishes to join GUE/NGL.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results
Venstre became the biggest party in the election, taking 23.5 % of the votes and four seats, of which one will be assigned to Denmark following Brexit. They were closely followed by the Social Democrats with 21.5 % and three seats. The election was a "meltdown" for the Danish People's Party, who saw their support drop from 26.6 % to 10.8 %, and who lost three of the four seats they won in the last election.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results
Both the Socialist People's Party and the Social Liberals had a good election, and both parties saw their seats double from one to two. The latter due to their electoral alliance with The Alternative, who did not win a seat.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results
The Conservative People's Party managed to defend their single seat despite a smaller vote share compared to last election. The Conservative People's Party is the only Danish party that is a member of the EPP, the largest group in the European Parliament. Prior to the election, people warned that it might damage Danish interests if there were no longer any Danish parties represented in the EPP.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results
The People's Movement Against the EU lost their single seat, and for the first time since 1979, they are not represented in the parliament. The loss was widely regarded as caused by the Red-Green Alliance, who traditionally have supported the People's Movement, but decided to contest the election for the first time. The Red-Green Alliance won a single seat. Incumbent MEP Rina Ronja Kari reacted by saying that the movement would live on, and that "the EU-opposition is not dead".


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results
The turnout were 66 %, the highest ever in a Danish European Parliament election. This was unexpected, as the campaign was largely overshadowed by the general election 10 days later. A study by election scientist Kasper Møller Hansen showed that among first-time voters (18-23 years old), the turnout increased from 41,19 % in 2014 to 59,70 % in 2019. Møller Hansen ascribed the increase to a general focus on climate change and Brexit, as well educational elections held at schools since 2015.


2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results, Elected members
On 27 June Jeppe Kofod was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Social Democratic government formed after the general elections held on 5 June, and thus did not took his seat. The appointment was a surprise as he had just been elected, but media speculated it was due to Henrik Sass Larsen not being available as a minister. Marianne Vind is to take his seat.


2019 European Parliament election in Estonia
The 2019 European Parliament election in Estonia for the election of the delegation from Estonia to the European Parliament will take place on May 26, 2019. Due to the United Kingdom's impending withdrawal from the European Union and the redistribution of its European Parliament seats, the number of elected MEPs from Estonia is increased by one to seven.


2019 European Parliament election in Estonia, Opinion polls
Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each poll is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's color. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded.


2019 European Parliament election in Finland
The 2019 European Parliament election in Finland for the election of the delegation from Finland to the European Parliament took place on 26 May 2019.


2019 European Parliament election in Finland
A working committee consisting of the party secretaries of all parliamentary parties suggested in May 2017 that the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, scheduled for April, should be organized simultaneously with the European Parliament election. The suggestion was considered by the Minister of Justice Antti Häkkänen, but did not have enough parliamentary support to pass. Ultimately, the Finnish parliamentary election took place on 14 April 2019.


2019 European Parliament election in France
The 2019 European Parliament election in France were held on 26 May 2019 (and on 25 May in parts of overseas France and for some nationals abroad), electing members of the 9th French delegation to the European Parliament as part of the elections held across the European Union. The election featured two major changes since the 2014 election: the return to a single national constituency and the increase in the number of French seats from 74 to 79 upon the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Officially, 79 MEPs were considered to have been elected, including five "virtual" MEPs who did not take their seats until the UK formally left the EU. The election featured 34 separate electoral lists, a record number at the national level.


2019 European Parliament election in France
It was the first national election in France since the election of Emmanuel Macron as president and therefore his first major electoral test, taking place amid dismal approval ratings. For his party, Nathalie Loiseau led the Renaissance list of La République En Marche!, Democratic Movement (MoDem), Agir, and the Radical Movement which ultimately arrived in second with 22.42% of the vote, behind the National Rally (RN) list led by the 23-year-old Jordan Bardella which received 23.34% of the vote, with a lower vote percentage but more overall votes than its 2014 result.


2019 European Parliament election in France
Turnout, at just over 50%, was the highest since the 1994 elections. Led by Yannick Jadot, Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) managed a surprise third-place finish with 13.48% of the vote, short of its score in the 2009 elections in which it also achieved a surprise result.


2019 European Parliament election in France
At the same time, the list of The Republicans (LR) led by the 33-year-old Catholic philosopher François-Xavier Bellamy ended up with a historically poor result of just 8.48% of the vote and the loss of 12 MEPs despite expectations of a strong electoral dynamic created by Bellamy's selection as the party's lead candidate.


2019 European Parliament election in France
Similarly, the results were also a significant disappointment for Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise, which fell far short of both its presidential and legislative results in 2017 with only 6.31% of the vote, narrowly ahead of the joint list between the Socialist Party (PS), Place Publique, and New Deal led by Raphaël Glucksmann (the first time in its history the PS did not lead an autonomous list), which managed to remain in the European Parliament with its score of 6.19% of the vote, slightly above the 5% threshold needed for seats.


2019 European Parliament election in France
Numerous other lists fell short of the 5% threshold, including Nicolas Dupont-Aignan's Debout la France (DLF) and Benoît Hamon's Génération.s, the scores of which (both slightly above 3%) nevertheless allow their campaign expenses to be compensated by the state. The two were closely followed by the centre-right Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) led by Jean-Christophe Lagarde and the French Communist Party (PCF) led by Ian Brossat.


2019 European Parliament election in France
The recently founded Animalist Party, an animal rights party, also created a small surprise with its score of 2.16%, comparable to some of the more prominent lists, despite its limited presence in the campaign. The only two notable pro-Frexit parties received 1.82% of the vote combined. Other lists included Urgence Écologie, consisting of several small green parties, led by Dominique Bourg (garnering 1.82% of the vote); Lutte Ouvrière with 0.78% of the vote; and a list of gilets jaunes which collected 0.54% of the vote.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Electoral system
Starting from the 2004 elections, France was divided into eight large regional electoral constituencies for the purposes of European Parliament elections with members elected by proportional representation. The electoral system changed ahead of the 2019 election, with broad support in the French political class for a return to a national vote.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Electoral system
On 29 November, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that all parties consulted except for The Republicans supported returning to national lists, and confirmed the intention of the government to prepare a bill to change the voting system to that end, which was officially unveiled on 3 January 2018, preserving the 5% threshold for representation and 3% for reimbursement of campaign expenses. The possibility of transnational lists following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union was also considered. The return to national lists in effect benefits smaller parties which were previously disadvantaged by the system of large regional constituencies, while larger parties would win fewer seats.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Electoral system
The bill creating a single national constituency was approved by a vote the National Assembly vote on the first reading on 20 February 2018, and the Senate officially adopted the bill on 23 May 2018, which was promulgated on 25 June after its validation by the Constitutional Council.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Dates
As the European elections are scheduled from 23 to 26 May 2019 and French votes are traditionally held on Sundays, the date of the 2019 European election in France was confirmed to be 26 May 2019. Declarations of lists and candidacies were to be submitted between 23 April and 3 May 2019, while voting in some of the overseas territories and for nationals in the Americas officially took place on 25 May 2019.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Number of seats
On 23 January 2018, the European Parliament Committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted a proposal to reduce the size of the hemicycle from 751 to 705, splitting 27 former British seats between 14 underrepresented member states of which France was set to gain 5, increasing its representation from 74 to 79. On 7 February, the European Parliament voted 368 to 274 against the principle of reallocating British seats to transnational lists, though the idea's fate was ultimately in the hands of the European Council.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Number of seats
After the agreement on 10 April to postpone the British departure from the EU to 31 October, the participation of the United Kingdom in the European Parliament elections will mean that the number of elected MEPs will remain fixed at 74 until the eventual withdrawal of the UK.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Number of seats
As a result, legislation to "provide for two phrases", one with 74 MEPs, and later with 79 in total, was tabled on 24 April; electoral lists will still require 79 candidates, of which 74 will take their seats immediately and the remaining 5 "virtual" MEPs upon the departure of the UK from the EU.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Broadcast campaign
The length of campaign clips for each list was determined by its declared support among national parliamentarians (senators, deputies, and MEPs), a change largely to the benefit of the governing majority at the expense of opposition parties.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Broadcast campaign
From 15 April 2019, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) ensured that all candidates receive a fair distribution of time in broadcast media, with the exact timing monitored by stations themselves and speaking time relayed every Monday until the elections. The campaign officially commenced on 13 May.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Broadcast campaign, Televised debates
Hamon appealed against his exclusion from the France 2 debate on 4 April on 27 March, questioning the choice not to invite him given the inclusion of other lead candidates; this came after the earlier non-invitation of Brossat and Lagarde. He was joined in his case by Philippot and Asselineau, with the Paris administrative court subsequently ordering France 2 to invite the three to its debate, judging France Télévisions's excuse that Hamon's views were sufficiently represented by the invitation of Glucksmann to have been insufficient.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Broadcast campaign, Televised debates
France Télévisions contested this decision, and although the Conseil d'État ultimately ruled that France 2 was not obligated to invite the three, France 2 maintained its invitation out of courtesy. This first debate was watched by only 1.62 million viewers, representing an audience share of 9.8%.


2019 European Parliament election in France, Background, Broadcast campaign, Televised debates
On 9 April, just before the debate hosted by RFI and France 24, the RN announced Bardella would not participate in the debate, taking issue with its format and apparent lack of preparedness on the part of the hosts. As Mélenchon was unable to appear on the CNews debate on 10 April due to a planned campaign meeting, Adrien Quatennens was invited to take his place instead.