Albania Volt Albania () is not registered as a party in
Albania, but engages as a movement on the ground and participates at the European level of Volt.
Austria Volt Austria () is Volt's registered political party in
Austria. The party planned to take part in the European elections in 2019, but did not succeed in collecting the required 2,600 signatures in time to qualify for the ballot. Since then, the party contested some local elections, but did not receive a mandate. It intended to partake in the 2024 European Elections and promised to give two of the people who signed tickets to a
Taylor Swift concert, but was not proven effective as the party did not gain enough signatures.
Belgium Volt Belgium (, , ) is Volt's registered political party in
Belgium. Volt Belgium was the first section to participate in elections, when they took part in the
2018 Belgian local elections in
Ixelles,
Etterbeek and also shared a list with the local
Pirate Party (Paars) for
Antwerp. During the 2019 European Parliament elections, Volt participated in the
Dutch Speaking electoral college, receiving 0.48% of the vote, not enough for a seat.
Bulgaria Volt Bulgaria participated in all three
Bulgarian parliamentary elections in 2021, the first two as part of the anti-government coalition
ISMV then under
PP for the third election. ISMV won seats in both elections, but none of them were allocated to members of Volt. PP won the
November 2021 election and thus Volt gained two seats, which it defended in the
election in October 2022.
Nastimir Ananiev served as the chair of the parliamentary committee of the Regional Committee, as well as deputy chair of the
PP parliamentary group, while Ventsislava Lyubenova served as chair of the foreign relations committee. In the 2024 Parliamentary Elections the party lost its mandate in parliament.
Cyprus Volt Cyprus was founded on 3 December 2023. In November 2023, MP
Alexandra Attalides announced her intention to join Volt and was subsequently elected co-president at the party's founding congress. The party is fully active in the Cypriot political system and participates in local and European elections. In the 2024 European elections, the party gained 2.9% of the vote and thus did not win a seat.
Czech Republic Volt was founded 2019 and operated from 11 April 2021 to 28 June 2022 in the Czech Republic as the registered association , with Karolina Machová and Adam Hanka as the chairs of the association and Jan Klátil as the treasurer. Volt is now registered as political party . In the
2022 local elections in Prague, the party contested an election for the first time. Volt received 4,816 votes (0.14%) and thus did not win a mandate.
Denmark The Danish chapter of Volt, , was founded on 21 July 2018. The party contested an election for the first time in November 2021 with the municipal election in
Frederiksberg. Volt received 105 votes (0.2%) and thus did not win a mandate. The party needs 21,195 digital signatures to be eligible for national elections, as well as 70,680 to run in the 2024 European Elections.
Estonia Former
President of Estonia and
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, joined Volt Europa on 10 April 2025, breaking a previous pledge to not affiliate to any political party. He defended this by saying "to my mind (Volt) stands for all of what I believe", and "I share the values embodied in Volt".
Volt Estonia has not participated in any
election.
Finland Volt Finland () started collecting signatures in July 2023 to be officially registered as a party and to be able to stand in elections. The application ended with Volt having garnered only 553 signatures out of the 5000 required by June 2024.
France Volt France was founded as the ninth national branch of Volt Europa, and has nine active branches, with "city teams" in Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Rennes, and two cross-border branches in Ain-Geneva and Strasbourg-Kehl. The party was unable to participate in the European Elections 2019 due to a lack of funding. In 2020, Volt France participated in
municipal elections. The party ran in coalition with the Greens in Lille, where they received 24.5% in the first round, and lost in the second round with 39.4%; as a coalition with "100% citoyens" in Lyon, receiving 3.4% and 1.6% in two districts; and alone in Paris'
9th district, receiving 0.5% in the first round. In the
2022 general election, the party contested in 17 out of 577 constituencies, including constituencies abroad. The party achieved its best result in the national constituencies in the
5th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department with 3.25%. The best overall election result was achieved by Volt in the
7th constituency of the French abroad (Central Europe) with 4.97%. Volt Germany's basic programme is based upon a policies proposal, which is also fundamental for Volt Europa. The German branch's initial focus was the five "challenges" of "an intelligent state, social equality, economic renaissance, politically active citizenship" and "global balance". It also seeks to implement an overarching policy of transnational EU reform in accordance with the programmes of both Volt Germany and Volt Europa. Volt Germany has won individual seats on a number of city councils. In local elections occurring the same day as the European Elections in 2019, Volt received 1.2% of the votes for the election to the City Council in
Mainz, winning 1 seat. In Bavaria's 2020 local elections, the party won one seat each in
Bamberg and
Munich. In Munich, Volt subsequently became part of the governing coalition with the
Social Democrats. Later that year, the party won seats on the city councils of
Cologne,
Bonn,
Aachen,
Siegen,
Münster,
Düsseldorf, and
Paderborn. Volt was particularly strong in Cologne and Bonn, where it received around 5% of the votes, resulting in four and three seats, respectively. The party also won seats in
Darmstadt,
Frankfurt,
Wiesbaden,
Fulda, and
Heusenstamm in the
2021 Hessian local elections. The 6.5% vote share in Darmstadt, to win five of the 71 seats, was the party's best ever result in a German council. In the 2024 European Election, Volt Germany received 1,023,161 votes (2.6%), translating to three seats in the European Parliament. The MEPs elected were Damian Boeselager,
Nela Riehl and
Kai Tegethoff.
Greece Volt Greece () was founded in 2018. In July 2022, the group elected its first executive secretariat and an ethics committee, which were tasked with preparing its establishment as a party. On 4 October 2022, the party was officially registered, becoming the 18th registered party of Volt Europa. In December 2022, Volt founded the new political alliance Green & Purple () together with the parties
Ikologi Prasini,
Pirate Party of Greece,
Greens – Solidarity, Greek Party for the Animals and the ecofeminist movement Kyklos. The party held its founding congress in Athens on 11 and 12 March 2023. However, the Green & Purple alliance was barred from participating in the
May 2023 legislative election by the
Supreme Court of Greece due to its late submission of relevant forms. In the
June 2023 election, the alliance received 0.3% of the national vote.
Ireland Volt Ireland was formed in the run-up to the 2019 European elections, but did not register as a political party. It launched its website in October 2021, and in December 2021 the website indicated that it was seeking to collect the required 300 signatures from Irish and EU citizens residing in Ireland to register as a
political party.
Italy Volt Italy () was founded on 18 July 2018. Daniela Patti and Guido Silvestri are party leaders and Pasquale Lisena is treasurer. The party was unable to take part in the 2019 European elections, failing to obtain the required 150,000 notarised supporter signatures. Since then, the party has taken part in a number of regional and local elections, winning mandates in Mantua and Isernia, among other cities, where Federica Vinci, then chair of Volt Italy, was elected deputy mayor. In the Basilicata regional election in 2024, Volt's candidate, Eustachio Follia, gained 1.21%.
Kosovo Volt Kosovo (, ) is not registered as a party in Kosovo, but engages as a movement on the ground and participates at the European level of Volt.
Luxembourg Volt Luxembourg (, , ) was founded in 2019 and received around 2% of the vote in the
2019 European Parliament elections. It did not repeat this result in the 2024 European Election, with the party gaining 1.04% of the votes, receiving no seats.
Malta Volt Malta was officially registered as a political party in Malta in May 2021 and contested the 2022 elections for the national parliament, with two candidates covering four districts.
Netherlands , Leader of
Volt Netherlands in the
House of Representatives (Netherlands) Volt Netherlands is Volt's registered political party in the Netherlands and was founded on 23 June 2018 in
Utrecht. The party received 2.42% of the vote in the
2021 general election, taking three seats in the
Dutch House of Representatives. It has since then lost 1 seat due to the removal of
Nilüfer Gündogan from the party due to reports of reckless and abusive behavior. In the November 2023 general election, Volt received 1.69% of the votes, resulting in 2 seats in the
Dutch House of Representatives. For the
European Parliament Elections in June 2024, Volt received 5.13% of the votes, winning 2 of the 31 Dutch seats in the European Parliament. Following the Dutch 2025 snap elections Volt has one seat in the Dutch 150 seat house of representatives (and based on the 2023 provincial elections has 2 seats in the 75 seat Dutch senate)
Norway Volt Norway (Norwegian:
Volt Norge) was established as a non-profit association (NGO) in June 2025, with its registered seat in
Søgne. They advocate for
full Norwegian membership in the European Union, arguing that the
European Economic Area Agreement leaves Norway as a "rule-taker" rather than a "rule-maker" in European affairs. The current board of Volt Norway consists of Markus Buschmann and Fabian Rehmann.
Poland Volt Poland () has been operating in
Poland as a registered association since 2023, being involved in local initiatives and partaking in international Volt structures.
Portugal In October 2019, Volt Portugal submitted more than the 9,000 signatures needed to register as a political party. After multiple delays, the
Constitutional Court approved Volt Portugal as the country's 25th party in June 2020. Volt Portugal initially planned to contest
regional elections on the Azores in Autumn 2020, but was unable to do so due to a slow registration process, which did not allow enough time to recruit candidates. In the September
2021 local elections, the party contested in
Lisbon (0.42%),
Porto (0.42%),
Tomar (1.22%),
Coimbra (coalition 43.92%) and
Oeiras (coalition 7.27%), electing one single member of a Parish Assembly in Coimbra. Independent MEP
Francisco Guerreiro supported the party in the local elections and announced he would join the party after his mandate expired, although in the end he did not, instead calling for further cooperation between Volt,
PAN and
LIVRE in order to elect 1 MEP. In the January
2022 general election, Volt Portugal contested a national election for the first time, running in 18 of 20 districts. The party received 0.1% of the vote and did not win any seats. In the October
2025 local elections, the party once again contested in Lisbon (0.40%), Porto (0.13%),
Vila Nova de Gaia (0.60%),
Odivelas (0.41%), Oeiras (in coalition 6.34%), Coimbra (in coalition 37.84%),
Faro (0.89%), Tomar (0.67%),
Rio Maior (4.95%),
Torres Vedras (in coalition 47.16%) and
Loulé (0.35%), managing to win one city council seat in Torres Vedras and one seat in the municipal assembly in Rio Maior. In the
2026 presidential election, the party endorsed Manuela Magno for president. After she failed to gather enough signatures to register her candidacy, the party supported
António José Seguro, who won the first round with 31.1% of the vote. In the same year, MP
Filipe Sousa met with Volt's MEPs, in order to discuss a partnership between Volt Portugal and the
Madeira-based party
Together for the People.
Romania Volt Romania () is Volt's registered political party in Romania. It was registered in February 2021, the 15th registered national party of Volt Europa. The group has been active in the country since 2017, participating in initiatives against attacks on the rule of law and mobilising the diaspora to participate in the elections.
Slovakia The chairs of Volt Slovakia () are
Lucia Kleštincová and Rick Zedník. The party held its founding party conference on 3 February 2024. It has more female than male members.
Slovenia On 13 November 2025, Volt Slovenia announced its intention to register as an official party. It was officially established in April 2026, with Borja Ranzinger serving as its co-chair.
Spain for the
2021 Madrilenian regional election Volt Spain () was officially registered as a party in
Spain on 15 June 2018 as the third national section. The party won 32,291 votes in the 2019 European Parliament election. In May, the party contested the local elections in
Madrid for the first time since the European elections, but failed to win a mandate. Volt's average age in Spain is below 35, and its chairs are Rachele Arciulo and Cristian Castrillón.
Sweden Volt Sweden () was founded on 2 July 2018. As of 2026, Aaron Benzinger serves as the sole co‑president, with the other co‑president position vacant, and Bastiaan van Hoorn serves as treasurer. The party has local chapters in
Stockholm,
Gothenburg and
Lund. Volt Sweden campaigned in the
2019 European Parliament election in Sweden as a write‑in party, relying on voters to manually write its name on blank ballot papers; it received 146 votes in this way. The party also participated in the
2022 Swedish general election, receiving 89 votes. In the
2024 European Parliament election in Sweden, Volt Sweden again stood as a write‑in option, receiving 388 votes, an increase compared with 2019 but not sufficient to win a seat. In early November 2021, the
Ljusnarsberg branch of
Liberalerna announced its intention to become an independent association and run under Volt in the local elections. The branch cited disagreements with the national party's willingness to cooperate with the
Sweden Democrats as the main reason for leaving. The branch’s locally elected representative, Hendrik Bijloo, subsequently joined Volt, becoming the first Volt representative in Sweden. Volt did not retain representation in the 2022 Ljusnarsberg municipal election, receiving 33 votes (1.15 %).
Switzerland Volt Switzerland was founded on 9 October 2019. There are teams in
Geneva,
Zurich,
Basel,
Bern and
Lugano. In February 2020, Volt participated in the Unity Committee for the Free Movement of Persons. It is intended to address concerns of foreigners and Swiss with a
migration background to achieve greater participation in Swiss public life and was also directed against the
citizens' initiative "For moderate immigration (limitation initiative)". In the municipal elections in Zurich in February 2022, Volt stood for the first time in an election in Switzerland and fielded candidates in 2 out of 9 constituencies. In constituency 7+8 the party achieved 0.24%, in constituency 10 0.34%, which means that it did not win a mandate. The party is part of the Swiss Europe Initiative, which calls for the
Parliament and the
Federal Council to start negotiations with the EU on institutional issues and cooperation.
Ukraine Volt Ukraine () was founded in July 2022. Its founder and chairman is Mykhaylo Pobigay, a war veteran and the head of the non-profit organisation Land of The Free. Volt Ukraine advocates for
Ukraine to join the EU, as well as more military support and a European orientation for Ukraine. Members of Volt Ukraine also help support refugees and arrange accommodation in Europe.
United Kingdom Volt UK was registered with the British
Electoral Commission in January 2020, and campaigns for the UK to rejoin the
European Union. == European Parliament elections ==