The EU Election results are here: Learn how the votes are distributed
The last few months have been focused on the European elections
[https://elections.europa.eu/], which take place once every 5 years.
This year, EU citizens could vote from 6 to 9 June on their party of
preference. With their vote, citizens can decide which Members of the
European Parliament represent them to adopt laws and shape the future
of the EU. Today, the provisional results have been published, which
show that the Group of the European People's Party has received the
most votes (184 out of 720 seats) in the European Union, followed by
Renew Europe with 80 seats. 

With the help of real-time data, a map from the European Parliament
[https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/] visualises the seat
distribution of the political groups in 2024. The same data is
available for the 2019 elections, so a comparison can be made with the
previous election. It is also possible to filter by a specific country
and the data will then switch directly to the country-level
distribution of the votes. As the elections are now concluded,
citizens themselves can use the ‘Majority calculator
[https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/tools/majority-calculator/]’
to check which political groups could form a majority in the European
Parliament together.

This type of open data can be used to create visualisations like maps
or bar charts, to show citizens the direct effect of their votes. If
you are interested in knowing more about the data that is used for
visualisations, the European Parliament regularly publishes datasets
[https://data.europarl.europa.eu/en/datasets?language=en&order=RELEVANCE],
including documents related to plenary activities or updates on
meeting documents. 

Data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/en] also provides over 140,000
datasets within the ‘government and public sector’
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&categories=GOVE&page=1],
including datasets of the European Parliament
[https://data.europa.eu/data/catalogues/ep?locale=en], showcasing the
election results. Making data publicly available, contributes to the
knowledge and understanding of citizens on how their votes are
distributed across Europe.

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Publication Date/Time
2024-06-10T08:00:00+00:00
Visualising real-time data for an overview of the distribution of
Europe