European Parliament election, 2009 (Cyprus)

The European elections in the Republic of Cyprus in 2009 was held on June 6, 2009. It was conducted as part of the EU-wide European elections held in 2009, with six of the 736 seats were awarded in the European Parliament in the Republic of Cyprus.

At the election were the six parties, who were represented at this time also in the Cypriot Parliament: the conservative Democratic Rally, the communist AKEL, the liberal- centrist DIKO, the Social Democratic EDEK, the centrist Evroko and the green LD. There were also some other small parties and independent candidates.

The turnout was 58.9 % and was significantly higher than the European average, but also significantly lower than the 72.5 % in the European elections in Cyprus 2004 Specifically, the parties reached the following results. :

After the election, the group memberships of various Cypriot parties changed in Parliament. The EPP-ED group, divided in itself; However, the Democratic Rally remained in the larger sub-group, the EPP Group. The newly elected to parliament EDEK joined the Socialist Group S & D. The deputies of the DIKO finally changed by the liberal ALDE group for social democratic S & D.