Family Party of Germany

The Family Party of Germany (German: Familienpartei Deutschlands) is a minor conservative[4] political party in Germany. It has elected members to several local councils in the state of Saarland. In the 2005 federal elections, the Family Party received 0.4% of the popular vote and no seats. The party wants to introduce a right to vote for children carried out by the legal guardians.

Family Party of Germany
Familienpartei Deutschlands
LeaderHelmut Geuking
Founded1981
IdeologyConservatism
Familialism
Social conservatism[1]
Christian democracy
Political positionCentre-right to right-wing
European affiliationEuropean Christian Political Movement
European Parliament groupEuropean Conservatives and Reformists[2]
(until 2021)
European People's Party (since 2021)
Colours  Orange[3]
Bundestag
0 / 709
State Parliaments
1 / 1,855
European Parliament
1 / 96
Website
http://www.familien-partei.de/
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In the 2014 European parliament elections, the Family Party received 0.69% of the national vote (202,871 votes in total) and elected one Member of the European Parliament - Arne Gericke,[5] however he later went on to join Freie Wähler in June 2017.[6] In the 2019 European Parliament election, the Family Party slightly increased their vote share, reaching the threshold and electing lead candidate Helmut Geuking as an MEP.

Election results

Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
Election year No. of
constituency votes		 No. of
party list votes		  % of
party list votes		 No. of
overall seats won		 +/–
1987 130 - 0.0
0 / 631
1998 8,134 24,825 0.1
0 / 631
2002 15,138 30,045 0.1
0 / 631
2005 76,064 191,842 0.4
0 / 631
2009 17,848 120,718 0.3
0 / 631
2013 4,478 7,449 0.0
0 / 631
2017 506 - -
0 / 709
2021 1,817 - -
0 / 736

European Parliament
Election year # of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 +/- # of
overall seats won		 +/–
1994 2781 0.0 new
0 / 99
 new
1999 4117 0.0 Steady<0.1
0 / 99
 Steady
2004 268,468 1.0 Increase1.0
0 / 99
 Steady
2009 252,121 1.0 Steady<0.1
0 / 99
 Steady
2014 202,803 0.7 Decrease0.3
1 / 96
 Increase 1
2019 273,828 0.7 Steady<0.1
1 / 96
 Steady

References
  1. William T Daniel (2015). Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-871640-2.
  2. "Who's going where? Tracking the musical chairs in the European Parliament". Europe Decides. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. "Kreuzchen - Das Landtagswahlkampf-Blog der Frankfurter Rundschau". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  4. Daniele Caramani (2013). The Europeanization of Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-107-11867-6.
  5. "Übersicht". Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  6. "Schwerin: Gericke von der Familienpartei wechselt zu Freien Wählern". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-11.


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