EU Elections: Surge in Support for Nationalist Parties, Greens at Expense of Historically Dominant Parties

The European Union’s 28-country elections saw significant gains for nationalist parties and the Greens, and diminishing support for the historically dominant parties.

A polling station official gives a ballot to a man during the European Parliamentary election at a polling station in Milan, Italy, on May 26, 2019. Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images

The European Union’s 28-country elections saw significant gains for nationalist parties and the Greens, and diminishing support for the historically dominant parties.

While the center-left and center-right parties still had the highest votes in the four-day election that ended on May 26, for the first time in the bloc’s history, they lost their majority in the European Parliament.