<p>The 1979 European elections were parliamentary elections held across all 9 (at the time) European Community member states.</p>

<p>They were the first European elections to be held, allowing citizens to elect 410 MEPs to the European Parliament, and also the first international election in history. Seats in the Parliament had been allocated to the states according to population, and in some cases were divided into constituencies, but members sat according to political groups.</p>

40th Anniversary of the first elections to the European Parliament by direc

First European Elections in Denmark (1979)

Memoclip: European Elections - citizen's vote (1979-2014)

Infoclip: Exhibition Elections 1979-2019 (National Library University)

Infoclip: Exhibition Elections 1979-2019 (European Parliament)

Memoclip: European Elections - citizen's vote (1979-2009)

Memoclip: European Elections - electoral campaign (1979-2009)

European Election Campaign

Conférence de presse, July 1979

Simone VEIL chairing the first sitting of the European Parliament elected by direct universal suffrage in Strasbourg.

Simone VEIL newly elected President of the European Parliament during the first session of the first directly-elected European Parliament.

MEP insert their vote in the ballot box on 17 July in Strasbourg. This election would reveal Simone VEIL as the new directly elected President of the European Parliament.

First sitting of the European Parliament elected by direct universal suffrage - Address by Louise WEISS, oldest EP Member, before the election of the EP President

Counting of Eurovotes at ballsbridge, Dublin

Voting in the direct elections Bray Urban district council, CO Wicklow

First European Elections 1979: Germany

First European Elections 1979: Italy

First European Elections 1979: Netherlands

First European Elections 1979: Ireland

First European Elections 1979: United Kingdom

Report by Schelto Patijn, Member of the EP, on the election of the European Parliament by universal suffrage

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