2004 European Parliament election

Results

Statistics

Results by country

The national results as at 21 July 2004 are as follows:

Results by EU party (2004 estimated result)

The estimated votes by EU party are as follows:

Registered voters: 353,460,958 (est.)

Votes cast: 154,317,718 (43.66%) (est.)

Total seats: 732

1. The figures for the Nordic Green Left Alliance and the European Anticapitalist Left include only those members that are not full members of the Party of the European Left.

2. See above.

3. The figures for the European Christian Political Movement exclude a number of members who hold concurrent membership of the European Peoples Party.}}

• These estimated voting figures, using the believed configurations of EU groupings at the time of the 2004 elections, have been compiled by totalling national party figures, using official results where they are available.
• Where national lists are alliances between more than one political party, attempts have been made to divide that list proportionally, using preferential voting totals where available and, in other circumstances, dividing vote totals equally between candidates (if party membership available) or the MEPs elected (if not).}}

Results by EU party (2007 notional result)

The notional results by EU party as at 8 January 2007 are as follows:

Registered voters: 378,106,633 (est.)

Votes cast: 168,317,718 (44.49%) (est.)

Total seats: 785 (+53)

1. Roger Helmer was expelled from the EPP-ED group in 2005, but retains the whip of the British Conservative Party.

2. The figures for the Nordic Green Left Alliance and the European Anticapitalist Left include only those members that are not full members of the Party of the European Left.

3. See 2 above.

4. The EUDemocrats, while having a preference for the IND/DEM group, is currently split between UEN and IND/DEM.

5. In addition to the majority of AIDE MEPs which sit in the IND/DEM group, AIDE also includes Non-Inscrit MEP, Jim Allister, as an individual member.

6. The figures for the European Christian Political Movement exclude a number of members who hold concurrent membership of the European Peoples Party.

7. See 4 above.

8. These figures include parties listed on the Euronat page which appear to have links with Euronat short of full membership.}}

• These figures estimate 'notional' voting figures based on changes in the configuration of EU political groupings since the 2004 elections and the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. Their purpose is to better estimate the position which the groups will have to defend for the next European Parliament election.
• These figures incorporate the results of the 2004 Romanian Chamber of Deputies election and the 2005 Bulgarian National Assembly election, on which the distribution of Bulgarian and Romanian MEPs is temporarily based. These figures will consequentially change after the 2007 European Parliament elections in those countries.
• These figures include the ITS group.}}

New parties in the 2004 election

• In the United Kingdom, RESPECT The 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. The English Democrats party appeared in England for the first time in 5 of the 9 English Constituencies, campaigning for an English Parliament and against English 'European' regions.
• A European Union-wide political party, the European Greens, was established in Rome on 21 February 2004 to contest this election.
• Swedish Junilistan (the June list) formed early in the year, meant to provide social democratic and right wing voters an EU sceptic alternative.
• In the Netherlands Europa Transparant of Paul van Buitenen got two seats.
• In Austria the Liste Hans-Peter Martin obtained two seats.

New inclusion

Gibraltar participated as a result of the judgement in Matthews v. United Kingdom

Political group reshuffle after the 2004 election

• Liberals: The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party created a new grouping by allying with MEPs from the French party Union for French Democracy (previously part of the EPP-ED), the Margherita Party (Italy) (previously part of the EPP-ED), other Italian members, the Lithuanian Labour Party and the Belgian MR-MCC (previously EPP-ED). The new allies formed the EDP and a new combined group, between the ELDR and the EDP, was formed with the name ALDE: the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
• Eurosceptics: Sweden's Junilistan, the anti-abortion League of Polish Families, and the French Combats Souverainistes joined the existing Europe of Democracies and Diversities group, which already included the UK Independence Party (UKIP). The group renamed itself Independence and Democracy (ID).

References

References

1. "Turnout | 2004 European election results | European Parliament".