European Parliament Elections 2014: Results

Euroskeptic and anti-European Union parties made big gains in the first European elections since the euro-zone debt crisis that has shaken the continent over the past five years. Projections from the European Parliament – based on national results and estimates – show that nationalist and anti-EU parties (which dominate the NI and EFD groupings) could get around 140 of 751 seats in the new legislature. This is up from around 60 seats in the 2009 election. Voting Explained »

When voters in various European Union states filled out their ballots, they voted for candidates running for their national parties. Many national parties are members of larger European party groupings—for instance, the center-right European People's Party encompasses Germany's Christian Democratic Union—and the lawmakers act and vote as a group in the European Parliament, similar to the Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress. Each country has a certain number of seats in the Parliament, roughly related to its population.

Source: TNS/Scytl in cooperation with the European Parliament.