Luxembourg (European Parliament constituency)

Infobox European Parliament constituency
name = Infobox Luxembourg (European Parliament constituency)
title = Luxembourg
locationmap2007=yes
lat=53.0
long=6.3
created = 1979
meps = 6 (2004)
sources = [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/election/newep/en/maps.htm] [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourvoice/index.html] |In European elections, Luxembourg is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by six MEPs. It covers the member state of Luxembourg and uses the D'Hondt method.

Current MEPs

"As of September 2007"

1979

The 1979 European election was the first direct election to be held to the European Parliament, and hence the first time Luxembourg voted for their MEPs.

1984

The 1984 European election was the second election to the European Parliament.

1989

The 1989 European election was the third election to the European Parliament.

1994

The 1994 European election was the fourth election to the European Parliament.

1999

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament and was held in Luxembourg on June 13. Astrid Lulling and Jacques Santer (former Commission President) were elected for the Christian Social People's Party (European People's Party), Colette Flesch for the Democratic Party (European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party) and Robert Goebbels and Jacques Poos for the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (Party of European Socialists).

2004

The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament and was held in Luxembourg on June 13. The ruling Christian Social People's Party polled strongly, while the opposition Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party lost ground.

:Registered voters: 229,550 :Votes cast: 208,436 (90.8% turnout):Valid votes: 1,081,475

The Luxembourg electoral system allows each voter to cast as many votes as there are members to be elected. These figures show the number of votes cast for each party, not the number of voters who cast them.

2009

The next election will be in 2009 and the number of seats will remain at 6.

References

External links

* [http://www.eurela.org European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)]
* [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/search.do;jsessionid=A4D9A16A2C6906A9131769E03C71DB9E.node2?country=LU&language=EN List of MEPs] europarl.europa.eu