Determine the result of the European elections

You can find out how the result of a European election is determined here.

At the end of the election, the election committee determines how many votes have been cast for the individual election proposals in the electoral district. The electoral board appointed for postal voting determines how many votes were cast by postal vote for the individual nominations. The district and city electoral committees then determine how many votes have been cast for the individual nominations in the districts and independent cities. They have the right to review the findings of the electoral committees.

The Land electoral committees then determine how many votes have been cast in the Länder for the individual nominations. The Land electoral committee is entitled to make arithmetical corrections to the findings of the electoral boards and the district and city electoral committees. Finally, the Federal Electoral Committee determines how many votes have been cast in total for the individual nominations, how many seats are allocated to the individual nominations and which candidates have been elected. The Federal Electoral Committee is entitled to make arithmetical corrections to the findings of the Land electoral committees.

Responsibility lies with the municipal authorities.

• Annex 25 to the European Electoral Regulations: Election Record on the Determination and Establishment of the Result of the Election in the Constituency in the Election to the European Parliament
• Annex 26 to the European Electoral Regulations: Compilation of the final results of the election to the European Parliament
• Annex 27 to the European Electoral Regulations: Election Record on the Determination and Establishment of the Result of the Postal Vote in the Election to the European Parliament
• Annex 28 to the European Electoral Regulations: Minutes of the meeting of the district electoral committee/city electoral committee to determine and establish the result of the election to the European Parliament
• Annex 29 to the European Electoral Regulations: Minutes of the meeting of the Land Electoral Committee to determine and establish the result of the election to the European Parliament
• Annex 30 to the European Electoral Regulations: Minutes of the meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee to determine and establish the election result in the electoral area of the election to the European Parliament

• Necessary forms are listed in the documents section
• Online procedure possible: no
• Written form required: yes
• Personal appearance required: not applicable

The prerequisite for determining the election result is the determination of the lower levels (municipality, district, city, state).

The result of the European election is determined as follows:

• As soon as the election result in the constituency has been determined, the returning officer reports it to the district or municipal returning officer. If a municipality belonging to a district is divided into several polling districts, the electoral officer reports the election result of his or her polling district to the municipal authority, which summarizes the election results of all polling districts in the municipality and reports them to the district returning officer.
• The district returning officer determines the provisional election result in the district based on the quick reports.
• The city returning officer determines the provisional election result in the independent city based on the quick reports.
• The district and city returning officers inform the Land returning officer of the provisional election results as quickly as possible, taking into account the results of the postal vote.
• The Land returning officer reports the incoming district and city election results to the Federal Returning Officer immediately and on an ongoing basis.
• The Federal Returning Officer determines the provisional election result in the electoral area on the basis of the rapid reports from the Land returning officers.
• After reporting by the Federal Returning Officer, the Federal Electoral Committee determines the overall result of the election. It determines the total number of votes cast for the individual nominations, the number of seats allocated to the individual nominations and which candidates have been elected.

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