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Martin Günther

The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) · DIE LINKE.

80%participation, 293 of 364 votesMedian: The Left 87% · Germany 90% · all MEPs 89%
91%of votes matched the position of The Left
56%of For and Against votes on the winning side
27votes off the group line, of 289 comparable

Details

How they were elected

Seat
Took up the seat in place of Rackete, Carola
List
Die Linke1,091,586 votes, 2.7%, 3 seats
Position on the list
6
Electoral rule
In Germany, lists are closed: voters choose a party list, and seats go to its candidates in the order the party set.

List share and seats: European Parliament, 2024 European election results (results.elections.europa.eu). 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 Die Linke 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: 1,068,317 votes, 2.8% of valid votes. The 23,269 votes cast abroad or by post have no municipality and are not on the map.

0.0% to 0.8%0.8% to 1.3%1.3% to 1.8%1.8% to 2.9%2.9% to 13.6%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • LeipzigSachsen10.5% · 33,667
  • JenaThüringen9.9% · 5,430
  • WeimarThüringen8.9% · 2,858
  • ErfurtThüringen8.7% · 8,932
  • ArternKyffhäuserkreis, Thüringen8.5% · 179

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 Martin Günther voted

Most recent first

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

Off the group line

27 of 289 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 144Abstain 42Against 107Did not vote 71

Alignment with each group

Share of Martin Günther's votes that matched each group's position

EPP41%
S&D55%
PfE40%
ECR38%
Renew49%
Greens/EFA65%
The Leftown group91%
ESN36%

In Parliament

Country
Germany
Group
The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL)
National party
DIE LINKE.

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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