Political Participation and Electoral Shifts in Luxembourg’s 2024 European Elections

The political-cultural context of the European elections in Luxembourg: a (missed) opportunity for non-citizen residents Many expected that the 2024 European elections in Luxembourg would reflect the electoral dynamics observed in the October 2023 parliamentary elections, after which the centre-right Christian Social People's Party (CSV) and the socially liberal Democratic Party (DP) formed a coalition, signalling a shift away from the Liberal-Socialist-Green administrations of the previous decade.Amid these electoral dynamics, European elections hold a vital place in the Grand Duchy's democratic life, especially for non-citizen residents who lack voting rights in national parliamentary elections.While Luxembourg's society comprises approximately equal proportions of citizens and non-citizen residents (52.8% and 47.2%) (STATEC, 2024), non-citizen residents are not permitted to vote in national parliamentary elections, making the European elections their primary opportunity to express political preferences and address the democratic deficit arising from their exclusion from national elections.However, the registration rate among non-citizen Europeans residing in Luxembourg was barely 15% (Gouvernement.lu,2024).The low registration Taking sTock of The 2024 european elecTions