The Tally Room

Welcome to the Tally Room's live coverage of election results from the European election. In addition to myself, there'll be liveblogging from a few guest bloggers. The results website goes live at 2am tomorrow morning, and results should start coming in early on Monday...

6:05pm - Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic went to the polls on Friday. Czechs will still vote on Saturday, and neither country will count their European Parliament ballots until Sunday evening, so we don't have any information about the European results. However, Ireland...

Thursday June 4 saw voting in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. I haven't seen any results from the UK for either local council elections in England or the European Parliament (which I believe will be counted on Sunday), however, we have got results...

I've been writing so much stuff about the European Parliament election over recent days that I thought it would be useful to use one post to give links to all of my posts. Here are links to all 27 national profiles: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom

So I've decided I'll go out on a limb and make predictions for the European results. I broke it down into each individual constituency and national party, then tallied them up into totals for Europarties. In some cases (particularly between the new European Conservatives and...

Simon blogs regularly at Polswatch - Ben In 2009, Denmark will elect 13 representatives to the European Union Parliament, down from the 14 they elected in 2004. The Danes will vote using the d'Hondt method of proportional representation, similar to a large number of European...

Cyprus joined the European Union, electing 6 MEPs in its first election as a single constituency, as they will again in 2009. The result was: Democratic Rally (European People's Party) - 28.2%, 2 seats Progressive Party of Working People (European United Left) - 27.9%, 2 seats Democratic...

Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007 and conducted its first European Parliament that year when a by-election elected 18 MEPs. This will fall to 17 MEPs next weekend, with all being elected by proportional representation from a single national electorate. The 2007 result...

Estonia elects 6 MEPs, which it did for the first time in 2004. All MEPs are elected using D'Hondt proportional representation. The 2004 result was: Social Democratic Party (Party of European Socialists) - 36.8%, 3 seats Centre Party (European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party) - 17.5%,...

Lithuania first elected MEPs in 2004, when they elected 13 MEPs. They willl elect 12 in 2009, using a system of proportional representation with party lists. The 2004 election result was: Labour Party (European Democratic Party) - 30.2%, 5 seats Social Democratic Party (Party of European...