2004 European Parliament election

Voting Days	File:Eunion.png
Thursday 10 June	Netherlands, United Kingdom
Friday 11 June	Czech Republic, Ireland
Saturday 12 June	Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Malta
Sunday 13 June	Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004. The 25 member states of the European Union used varying election days according to local custom. Votes will be counted simultaneously and results made available on June 13 and 14; however, the Netherlands, voting on Thursday 10th, has called down criticism on itself from the European Commission by announcing its results as soon as they are counted, on the evening of its election day.

Approximately 343 657 800 people were eligible to vote, the second-largest democratic electorate in the world after India. The new Parliament will consist of 732 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The new member states will elect MEPs for the first time. It is the biggest transnational direct election in history. Voting is usually by proportional voting, using the D'Hondt method for calculating the number of seats to be allocated to each party's candidate list.

Voting in the election, in the Netherlands

Results table

At a glance

          blue  red  yellow  green  deep-red  UEN  EDD  N.I.  total
outgoing  297   232   66      45     56        30   18   44    788
incoming  276   200   66      42     39        27   15   67    732

(source: [1] [2])

Detailed results

Party Country	EPP-ED	PES	ELDR	Greens/EFA	EUL/NGL	UEN	EDD	Others⁶	seats	total	turnout
Austria⁵	6 32.66%	7 33.45%	--	2 12.75%	0 0.77%	--	--	2+1 14.04%+6.33%	18	2.5%	41.8%
Belgium	6	7	6	2	0	0	0	3	24	3.3%
Cyprus									6	0.8%
Czech Republic	11	2			6			5	24	3.3%	28.32%
Denmark	5	1	4	1	1	0	1	1	14	1.9%
Estonia									6	0.8%
Finland	4 23.7%	3 21.1%	4+1 23.3+5.7%	1 10.4%	1 9.1%				14	1.9%	41.1%
France	17	33	8 UDF + PR	4	3			9+4	78	10.7%
Germany⁸	49 36.5%+8%	23 21.5%	7 6.1%	13 11.9%	7 6.1%	-	-	- 9.9%	99	13.5%	43.0%
Greece									24	3.3%
Hungary									24	3.3%
Ireland									13	1.8%
Italy⁷	27 34.6%	16 20.5%	8 10.3%	2 2.6%	6 7.7%	10 12.8%		9 11.5%	78	10.7%	73.5%
Luxembourg									6	0.8%
Lithuania									13	1.8%
Latvia									9	1.2%
Malta									5	0.7%
Netherlands²	7 24.4%	7 23.6%	5 17.4% (1, 2)	2 7.4%	2 7.0%	-	2 5.9%	2 7.3%	27	3.7%	39.1%
Poland	15+4 24.9%+6.4%	5+3 9.3%+5.3%	4 7.3%	-	-	7 12.7%	-	10+6 15.9%+10.8%	54	7.4%	20.4%
Portugal									24	3.3%
Slovakia									14	1.9%	16.96%
Slovenia	2+2+0 23.5%+17.7%+8.4%	1 14.2%	2 21.9%	- 2.3%					7	1.0%	28.34%
Spain⁷	23 41.3%	25 43.3%	1 2.37%	1+1+1+1 6.37%	1 3.12%				54	7.4%	45.94%
Sweden	4+1 23.8%	5 24.7%	2+1 16.1%	1 5.9%	2 12.8%			3 14.4%	19	2.6%	37.2%
United Kingdom³	27 27.4%	19 22.3%	12 15.1%	2+1+2 7.3%			12 16.8%		78	10.7%	38.9%
total⁴	211	151	53	36	20	16	14	38	732	100.0%	39.1%

¹ Due to calculation used to determine number of seats awarded to a party, the percentage of the vote will not exactly match the number of seats
² These are partial results, based on 99.9% of the votes. Sunday official results will be announced, but these will most likely be the same. The Dutch say they can legally publish partial results. [3].
³ excludes Scotland and Northern Ireland which are counted on Monday.
⁴ These are, of course, partial results
^{5^{Update: this is the final result for Austria. N.I. contains both the FPÖ with 6.33% / 1 seat (this party suffers tremendous losses (-17%) and the list of Hans Peter Martin, who became notorious after leaving the PES, starting the "Spesenskandal" ("expense scandal") and spying on other MEPs, with 14% / 2 seats.

⁶Includes parties which belong to N.I. group as well as newly elected parties which have not yet been able to select their grouping. May include more than one party and seats obtained will not be directly comparable with the party results shown.

⁷These are final results taken from the official website [4]

⁸These are final results taken from the official website [5]}}

Final results will also be available from the official EU website

New parties in the 2004 election

In the United Kingdom, the Respect Unity Coalition was established to fight this election with the intention to use it as a springboard for a campaign against Tony Blair's government.