With the 2024 European Parliament elections set to take place between 6 and 9 June, national statistics show that Germany has the highest number of eligible voters of all EU member states, with 64.9 million.
This is followed by France, which has 49.7 million eligible voters, and Italy, with 47 million eligible voters.
The lowest number of eligible voters are found in Malta (0.4 million), Luxembourg (0.5 million) and Cyprus (0.7 million), the data showed.
In terms of first-time voters, meanwhile, the highest number is again found in Germany (5.1 million persons), followed by France (4 million) and Italy (2.8 million). The highest shares of first-time voters can be fund in Belgium (9.7%), France (8.0%) and Germany (7.9%), the Eurostat data showed.
Populist parties on the rise
Recently, German chancellor Olaf Scholz warned of rising support for right-wing populist parties as the European Elections near, suggesting that said parties would dismantle the EU’s prosperity and longstanding values.
“Right-wing populists are campaigning against our united Europe and its values,” Scholz was quoted as saying at a meeting in Bucharest. “They are ready to destroy what we have built up over decades. They threaten our prosperity built on our joint European market.”
Number of eligible voters in the 2024 European elections
| Country | Number of Eligible Voters |
|---|---|
| Germany | 64,900,000 |
| France | 49,749,866 |
| Italy | 47,036,270 |
| Spain | 37,878,158 |
| Poland | 32,148,844 |
| Romania | 18,948,047 |
| Netherlands | 13,300,000 |
| Portugal | 10,901,968 |
| Greece | 9,749,841 |
| Belgium | 8,529,998 |
| Czechia | 8,490,901 |
| Sweden | 7,881,430 |
| Hungary | 7,866,614 |
| Austria | 7,026,645 |
| Bulgaria | 6,158,936 |
| Finland | 4,557,000 |
| Denmark | 4,547,949 |
| Slovakia | 4,390,800 |
| Ireland | 3,370,364 |
| Croatia | 3,310,682 |
| Lithuania | 2,436,748 |
| Slovenia | 1,627,951 |
| Latvia | 1,551,270 |
| Estonia | 981,138 |
| Cyprus | 662,379 |
| Luxembourg | 488,446 |
| Malta | 369,363 |
