Press release no. 17/24 of 22. April 2024

2024 European election: order of parties on ballot papers will vary within Germany

WIESBADEN – The order of the parties on the ballot papers used in the European election of 9 June 2024 will not be the same everywhere in Germany. The Federal Returning Officer also reports that the order on the ballot papers is defined by the European Elections Act. In each Land, the order depends on the number of votes that each party or other political association received in the Land concerned in the 2019 election to the European Parliament. The parties and other political associations that did not participate in the last European election then follow in alphabetical order with their lists of nominated candidates.

In this year’s European election, the CDU will be first on the ballot paper in nine Länder (Baden-Württemberg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thüringen), the party DIE GRÜNEN will be listed first in three Länder (Berlin, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein), the AfD will be first on the ballot in two Länder (Brandenburg and Sachsen), and the SPD and the CSU will be listed first in Bremen and Bayern, respectively.

The party to be listed second on the ballot paper will be DIE GRÜNEN in six Länder (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Bremen, Hessen, Niedersachsen and Nordrhein-Westfalen), the CDU in four Länder (Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen and Schleswig-Holstein), the SPD in three Länder (Hamburg, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland) and the AfD in three Länder (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thüringen).

The SPD will appear third on the ballot paper in nine Länder (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein), the party DIE LINKE will be listed third in three Länder (Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thüringen) and the CDU will be listed third in two Länder (Bremen and Hamburg) as will DIE GRÜNEN (Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland).

An overview of the order of the parties on the ballot papers in all the Länder is available on the website of the Federal Returning Officer.

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