Family Party of Germany
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Family Party of Germany Familienpartei Deutschlands | |
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| Leader | Maria Hartmann[1] |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Ideology | Conservatism Social conservatism[2] Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
| European affiliation | European Christian Political Movement |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists[3] |
| Colours | Orange[4] |
| Bundestag | 0 / 709
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| State Parliaments | 1 / 1,855
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| European Parliament | 1 / 96
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The Family Party of Germany (German: Familienpartei Deutschlands) is a minor conservative[5] 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.
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,[6] however he later went on to join Freie Wähler in June 2017.[7] 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.
Tables of 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 |
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| 1987 | 130 | 0.0 | 0 / 631 |
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| 1998 | 8,134 | 24,825 | 0.1 | 0 / 631 |
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| 2002 | 15,138 | 30,045 | 0.1 | 0 / 631 |
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| 2005 | 76,064 | 191,842 | 0.4 | 0 / 631 |
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| 2009 | 17,848 | 120,718 | 0.3 | 0 / 631 |
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| 2013 | 4,478 | 7,449 | 0.0 | 0 / 631 |
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| 2017 | 506 | - | - | 0 / 709 |
References
- Familien-Partei - Deutschlands Bundesverband. "Familien-Partei - Bundesverband :: Über uns". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- 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.
- "Who's going where? Tracking the musical chairs in the European Parliament". Europe Decides. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- "Kreuzchen - Das Landtagswahlkampf-Blog der Frankfurter Rundschau". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- Daniele Caramani (2013). The Europeanization of Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-107-11867-6.
- "Übersicht". Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- Online, FOCUS. "Schwerin: Gericke von der Familienpartei wechselt zu Freien Wählern". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-11.
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