The 2024 European Election Map

Zeit has created an interactive map which visualizes the results in the 2024 European Union elections in 83,000 municipalities. The map in Explore Europe's Most Detailed Electoral Map colors each electoral area in Europe based on the politics of the leading candidate in the election.

The map allows you to compare the 2024 European Union election results with the results from 2014 and 2019. By switching between the 2014 and 2024 results you can see that there has been a general shift across much of Europe to more right-wing parties. The far-right in particular have made huge gains in France, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Germany.

Zeit's accompanying article (in German) explores some of the most interesting results to emerge in June's election. For example the article explores a pattern across much of Europe where inner-city areas tend to vote for more left-wing parties than those in rural areas, who tend to favor parties of the right. 

The newspaper also notes that Poland once again seems politically split along a 100 year old border. In August, 1772, Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed a treaty that partitioned Poland. Poland regained its independence and reunited as the Second Polish Republic in 1918 after World War I. However, the pre-1918 geographical divide seems to re-emerge in the results of every Polish election. Zeit notices that in this European election 'In the western and northern regions that were once German, people vote differently (usually more liberally) than in the former Russian regions.'

The German newspaper also points out the political differences between the Wallonia and Flemish regions in Belgium and the split in Germany along the old West and East German border.