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Sven Simon

European People's Party (EPP) · CDU

86%participation, 315 of 364 votesMedian: EPP 90% · Germany 90% · all MEPs 89%
98%of votes matched the position of EPP
93%of For and Against votes on the winning side
6votes off the group line, of 315 comparable

Details

How they were elected

List
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU)9,435,636 votes, 23.7%, 23 seats
Position on the list
1
Electoral rule
In Germany, lists are closed: voters choose a party list, and seats go to its candidates in the order the party set.

Share and votes: sum of the local results in BLUE_EP (Hublet 2024); the combined CDU/CSU share matches the European Parliament 2024 results (results.elections.europa.eu); seats: MEPs of each party at the constitutive sitting. List votes, position on the list: Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden 2024, dl-de/by-2-0 (https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/europawahlen/2024/ergebnisse/opendata.html), including list successors, collected on 13 October 2026.

Where the votes came from

Where the Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU) list won votes in the 2024 European election

The map shows the share of valid votes won by this list in each of the 10,956 municipalities: 9,005,763 votes, 23.3% of valid votes. The 428,840 votes cast abroad or by post have no municipality and are not on the map.

0.0% to 12.7%12.7% to 23.8%23.8% to 30.2%30.2% to 35.8%35.8% to 74.5%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • SchapenLandkreis Emsland, Niedersachsen62.1% · 638
  • BakumLandkreis Vechta, Niedersachsen61.7% · 2,206
  • VisbekLandkreis Vechta, Niedersachsen58.8% · 3,034
  • LengerichLandkreis Emsland, Niedersachsen58.6% · 664
  • EmsbürenLandkreis Emsland, Niedersachsen57.6% · 3,397

Results by municipality: BLUE_EP (Hublet, F. (2024). BLUE_EP: A Dataset of Municipality-Level Results of European Parliament Elections. Codebook v1. Paris: Groupe d'études géopolitiques. 10.5281/zenodo.14569325, CC BY 4.0), compiled from the official results. Municipal boundaries: © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, data modified (simplified), sources: https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_vg_nuts.pdf

How Sven Simon voted

Most recent first

Source: European Parliament roll-call votes, via HowTheyVote (ODbL). Collected 8 November 2026.

Off the group line

6 of 315 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 262Abstain 0Against 53Did not vote 49

Alignment with each group

Share of Sven Simon's votes that matched each group's position

EPPown group98%
S&D84%
PfE45%
ECR69%
Renew90%
Greens/EFA73%
The Left47%
ESN29%

In Parliament

Country
Germany
Group
European People's Party (EPP)
National party
CDU

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Method

Participation: Share of the votes the Radar follows (HowTheyVote main votes and final roll-call votes) in which the MEP voted. Not attendance; excused absences are not counted. Winning side: Of the For and Against votes, the share on the side of the result: For when adopted, Against when rejected. Abstentions and absences are left out. Off the group line: a vote different from the position of the MEP's own group on that day; divided groups and non-attached members are left out. Full method