Family Party of Germany

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Family Party of Germany Familienpartei Deutschlands

Leader	Helmut Geuking
Founded	1981
Ideology	Conservatism Social conservatism^[1] Christian democracy Familialism
Political position	Centre-right to right-wing
European affiliation	European Christian Political Movement
European Parliament group	European 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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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.

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[edit]

Federal Parliament (Bundestag)[edit]

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[edit]

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	+/-	# of overall seats won	+/–
1994	2781	0.0	new	0 / 99	new
1999	4117	0.0	<0.1	0 / 99
2004	268,468	1.0	1.0	0 / 99
2009	252,121	1.0	<0.1	0 / 99
2014	202,803	0.7	0.3	1 / 96	1
2019	273,828	0.7	<0.1	1 / 96

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ "Schwerin: Gericke von der Familienpartei wechselt zu Freien Wählern". FOCUS Online (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-04-27. Retrieved 2017-07-11.

External links[edit]

Official website (in German)

Political parties in Germany

Represented in the Bundestag
(735 seats)

SPD (206)
CDU (152)
The Greens (118)
FDP (91)
AfD (80)
CSU (45)
The Left (28)
BSW (10)
SSW (1)

Represented in the European Parliament
(96 seats for Germany)

Major parties	SPD (16) CDU (23) The Greens (21) FDP (5) AfD (9) CSU (6) The Left (5) Free Voters (2)
Minor parties	Die PARTEI (1) ÖDP (1) Family Party (1) Bündnis Deutschland (1) Pirate Party (1) Volt (1)

Represented in the 16 state parliaments

Major parties	SPD (16/16) CDU (15/16; not in Bavaria) The Greens (15/16) FDP (12/16) AfD (15/16) The Left (8/16) Free Voters (2/16)
Regional parties	CSU (85; only in Bavaria) BVB/Free Voters (5; only in Brandenburg) SSW (4; only in Schleswig-Holstein) BD (9; only in Bremen and Saxony) BfTh (2; only in Thuringia)

Minor parties (without representation
above the district level)

Notes:

CDU: does not participate in the state election in Bavaria; instead, an associated party CSU is participating here.
Greens: are currently not in the state parliament of the Saarland
FDP: is currently not in state parliaments of Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Saarland and Saxony.
AfD: is currently not in the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Left: is currently not in the state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein.
Free Voters: are currently only in the state parliaments of Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate.

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