EVERY FIVE YEARS, EU citizens vote for who they want to represent them in the European Parliament.

Ireland’s turnout for voting in European Parliament elections has been steadily decreasing over the past three elections.

2019’s turnout was 49.70%, just under the EU average of 50.66%. Ireland had the fourteenth-lowest turnout that year in a vote which happened in conjunction with a referendum on the easing of divorce restrictions and local elections. In comparison, Ireland had the seventh-lowest turnout ten years prior in the 2009 EU elections.

The next European elections will take place in 2024 and will mark the first vote since the UK left the EU.

This month, The Journal‘s Good Information Project is looking at Ireland’s relationship with the EU. 

So today we’re asking: Do you vote in European elections?

This work is also co-funded by Journal Media and a grant programme from the European Parliament. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this work are the author’s own. The European Parliament has no involvement in nor responsibility for the editorial content published by the project. For more information, see here. 

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