What to Expect in European Parliamentary Elections

Pollsters predicted that right-wing groups and parties will gain seats in the European Parliament while centrist and center-left groups will lose seats.

Euro-deputies take part in a vote on the revision of the EU emissions trading system at the European Union Parliament in Brussels on June 22, 2022. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

The European Union is holding elections June 6 to June 9, in which citizens of each of the 27 member nations will elect their representatives to the European Parliament for a five-year term.

The European Parliament is the main legislative body of the EU and one of its seven institutions.