| Voter Turnout in Elections | |||||||
| to the European Parliament | (% of eligible voters) | ||||||
| 1979 | 1984 | 1989 | 1994 | 1999 | 2004 | ||
| Belgium | 91.4 | 92.2 | 90.7 | 90.7 | 91.0 | 90.8 | |
| Denmark | 47.8 | 52.4 | 46.2 | 52.9 | 50.5 | 47.9 | |
| France | 60.7 | 56.7 | 48.7 | 52.7 | 46.8 | 42.8 | |
| Germany | 65.7 | 56.8 | 62.3 | 60.0 | 45.2 | 43.0 | |
| Ireland | 63.6 | 47.6 | 68.3 | 44.0 | 50.2 | 58.8 | |
| Italy | 84.9 | 83.4 | 81.5 | 74.8 | 70.8 | 73.1 | |
| Luxembourg | 88.9 | 88.8 | 87.4 | 88.5 | 87.3 | 89.0 | |
| Netherlands | 57.8 | 50.6 | 47.2 | 35.6 | 30.0 | 39.3 | |
| UK | 32.2 | 32.6 | 36.2 | 36.4 | 24.0 | 38.8 | |
| Greece | 77.2 | 79.9 | 71.2 | 75.3 | 63.2 | ||
| Portugal | 72.4 | 51.2 | 35.5 | 40.0 | 38.6 | ||
| Spain | 68.9 | 54.6 | 59.1 | 63.0 | 45.1 | ||
| Austria | 67.7 | 49.4 | 42.4 | ||||
| Finland | 60.3 | 31.4 | 39.4 | ||||
| Sweden | 41.6 | 38.8 | 37.8 | ||||
| Cyprus | 71.2 | ||||||
| Czech R. | 28.3 | ||||||
| Estonia | 26.8 | ||||||
| Hungary | 38.5 | ||||||
| Latvia | 41.3 | ||||||
| Lithuania | 48.4 | ||||||
| Malta | 82.4 | ||||||
| Poland | 20.9 | ||||||
| Slovakia | 17.0 | ||||||
| Slovenia | 28.3 | ||||||
| All EU | 63.0 | 61.0 | 58.5 | 56.8 | 49.8 | 45.7 | |