European Parliament Constituency
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected by the population of the member states of the European Union (EU), divided into constituencies.
In six EU member states (Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom), the national territory is divided into a number of constituencies. In the remaining member states, the whole country forms a single constituency. In Germany, political parties are entitled to present lists of candidates either at Länder or national level.
Currently, all member states hold elections to the European Parliament (EP) using various forms of proportional representation.
The number of representatives per head of population varies widely across constituencies. For example, 75,000 German speaking Belgians have one representative, while Sardinia and Sicily have one seat for every 943,000 people.
Data are for the 2009-2014 legislature. Between brackets are the number of seats before the 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
| Constituency | State | Area/ Community |
Seats | Pop. | Pop. per Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch-speaking electoral college | Belgium | Flemish Community | 13 (14) | 6,300,000 | 484,000 |
| French-speaking electoral college | Belgium | French Community of Belgium | 8 (9) | 4,200,000 | 525,000 |
| German-speaking electoral college | Belgium | German-speaking Community of Belgium | 1 (1) | 75,000 | 75,000 |
| North-West France | France | Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy | 10 | 9,150,000 | 762,000 |
| West France | France | Brittany, Pays-de-la-Loire, Poitou-Charentes | 9 | 8,000,000 | 804,000 |
| East France | France | Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté, Lorraine | 9 | 8,200,000 | 820,000 |
| South-West France | France | Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées | 10 | 8,200,000 | 819,000 |
| South-East France | France | Corsica, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes | 13 | 10,800,000 | 833,000 |
| Loire, Massif Central | France | Auvergne, Centre, Limousin | 5 | 4,500,000 | 753,000 |
| Île-de-France | France | Île-de-France (including Paris) | 13 | 11,300,000 | 805,000 |
| Overseas Territories of France | France | French overseas departments and territories | 3 | 2,500,000 | 820,000 |
| Dublin | Ireland | County Dublin | 3 | 1,190,000 | 400,000 |
| East | Ireland | Counties Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Wexford and Wicklow | 3 | 1,100,000 | 367,000 |
| South | Ireland | Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary North, Tipperary South and Waterford | 3 | 1,100,000 | 367,000 |
| North–West | Ireland | Counties Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath | 3 | 880,000 | 293,000 |
| North-West | Italy | Aosta Valley, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont | 23 | 15,000,000 | 653,000 |
| North-East | Italy | Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto | 15 | 10,700,000 | 714,000 |
| Central | Italy | Latium, Marche, Tuscany, Umbria | 16 | 10,900,000 | 681,000 |
| Southern | Italy | Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise | 17 | 13,800,000 | 816,000 |
| Islands (Italy) | Italy | Sardinia, Sicily | 7 | 6,600,000 | 943,000 |
| Pomeranian | Poland | Pomeranian Voivodeship | 2 | 2,200,000 | 1,100,000 |
| Kuyavian-Pomeranian | Poland | Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship | 3 | 2,000,000 | 666,000 |
| Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian | Poland | Podlaskie Voivodeship and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship | 2 | 2,600,000* | 1,300,000* |
| Warsaw | Poland | City of Warsaw and part of the Masovian Voivodeship (powiats: grodziski, legionowski, nowodworski, otwocki, piaseczynski, pruszkowski, warszawski zachodni and wolominski) | 6 | 2,660,000* | 440,000* |
| Masovian | Poland | The remaining part of the Masovian Voivodeship (powiats: ciechanowski, gostyninski, mlawski, plocki, plonski, przasnyski, sierpacki, sochaczewski, zurominski, zyrardowski, bialobrzeski, grójecki, kozienicki, lipski, przysuski, radomski, szydlowiecki, zwolenski, garwolinski, losicki, makowski, minski, ostrolecki, ostrowski, pultuski, siedlecki, sokolowski, wegrowski, wyszkowski and the cities of Plock, Radom, Ostroleka and Siedlce) | 3 | 3,464,000* | 1,155,000* |
| Łódź | Poland | Łódź Voivodeship | 4 | 2,500,000 | 625,000 |
| Greater Poland | Poland | Greater Poland Voivodeship | 5 | 3,300,000 | 660,000 |
| Lublin | Poland | Lublin Voivodeship | 4 | 2,100,000 | 525,000 |
| Subcarpathian | Poland | Subcarpathian Voivodeship | 2 | 2,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie | Poland | Lesser Poland Voivodeship and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship | 8 | 4,550,000* | 569,000* |
| Silesian | Poland | Silesian Voivodeship | 8 | 4,600,000 | 575,000 |
| Lower Silesian and Opole | Poland | Lower Silesian Voivodeship and Opole Voivodeship | 7 | 3,930,000* | 561,000* |
| Lubusz and West Pomeranian | Poland | Lubusz Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship | 2 | 2,700,000* | 1,350,000* |
| London | United Kingdom | Greater London | 8 | 7,400,000 | 822,000 |
| South East England | United Kingdom | South East | 10 | 8,000,000 | 800,000 |
| South West England | United Kingdom | South West, Gibraltar | 6 | 4,900,000 | 700,000 |
| West Midlands | United Kingdom | West Midlands | 6 | 5,200,000 | 740,000 |
| North West England | United Kingdom | North West | 8 | 6,700,000 | 745,000 |
| North East England | United Kingdom | North East | 3 | 2,500,000 | 833,000 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | United Kingdom | Yorkshire and the Humber | 6 | 5,100,000 | 816,000 |
| East Midlands | United Kingdom | East Midlands | 5 | 4,100,000 | 683,000 |
| East of England | United Kingdom | Eastern | 7 | 5,400,000 | 770,000 |
| Northern Ireland | United Kingdom | Northern Ireland | 3 | 1,700,000 | 566,000 |
| Scotland | United Kingdom | Scotland | 6 | 5,000,000 | 714,000 |
| Wales | United Kingdom | Wales | 4 | 3,000,000 | 725,000 |
| Germany | Germany | Germany | 99 (99) | 82,000,000 | 828,000 |
| Spain | Spain | Spain | 50 (54) | 47,000,000 | 940,000 |
| Romania | Romania | Romania | 35 (n/a) | 20,000,000 | 571,000 |
| Netherlands | Netherlands | Netherlands | 25 (27) | 16,500,000 | 660,000 |
| Greece | Greece | Greece | 22 (24) | 11,300,000 | 513,000 |
| Portugal | Portugal | Portugal | 22 (24) | 10,500,000 | 477,000 |
| Czech Republic | Czech Republic | Czech Republic | 22 (24) | 10,500,000 | 477,000 |
| Hungary | Hungary | Hungary | 22 (24) | 10,000,000 | 454,000 |
| Sweden | Sweden | Sweden | 18 (19) | 9,400,000 | 522,000 |
| Austria | Austria | Austria | 17 (18) | 8,400,000 | 494,000 |
| Bulgaria | Bulgaria | Bulgaria | 18 (n/a) | 7,300,000 | 405,000 |
| Denmark | Denmark | Denmark | 13 (14) | 5,500,000 | 423,000 |
| Slovakia | Slovakia | Slovakia | 13 (14) | 5,400,000 | 315,000 |
| Finland | Finland | Finland | 13 (14) | 5,400,000 | 315,000 |
| Lithuania | Lithuania | Lithuania | 12 (13) | 3,200,000 | 266,000 |
| Latvia | Latvia | Latvia | 8 (9) | 2,200,000 | 275,000 |
| Slovenia | Slovenia | Slovenia | 7 (7) | 2,000,000 | 285,000 |
| Estonia | Estonia | Estonia | 6 (6) | 1,300,000 | 216,000 |
| Cyprus | Cyprus | Cyprus | 6 (6) | 840,000 | 140,000 |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 6 (6) | 500,000 | 83,000 |
| Malta | Malta | Malta | 5 (5) | 410,000 | 82,000 |
| Total | 736 (785) | ±500,000,000 | ±680,000 | ||
* Rough estimation
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