The votes in Britain and the rest of the EU offer an unprecedented challenge to mainstream politics Britain likes to think that it marches to a different political drum from the rest of Europe. Yet the 2014 European parliament election has generated a great political paradox. In these elections, British voters flocked in record numbers to the anti-Europe flagship party Ukip. And yet, as they voted...
David Coburn won the sixth European seat by the narrowest of margins after securing 10.4% of the vote Ukip narrowly won its first ever seat in Scotland, dashing Alex Salmond's hopes of securing a record three seats in the European parliament. The party's candidate David Coburn, a Scottish businessmen who was parachuted in by Farage after running Ukip's London region, won the sixth European seat by...
Ukip leader fails to suppress his grin on a night his party delivered a seismic shift to British politics An hour later than he was expected, his aides and security men elbowing a path through a thicket of camera crews and photographers, Nigel Farage swept into Southampton Civic Centre like a rock star, a grin on his face that he wasn't taking much trouble to suppress. How was his promised electoral...
Party president Tim Farron says Lib Dems 'put national interest ahead of their own' as number of MEPs falls across country Nick Clegg is facing renewed pressure to resign as Liberal Democrat leader after his party was all but wiped out in the European elections. In a huge blow to the authority of the deputy prime minister, the Lib Dems were on course to lose all but one of the 11 seats they won in...
For the first time in modern history, neither Labour nor Conservatives have won a British national election Nigel Farage has unleashed his much-promised political earthquake across British politics as Ukip stormed to victory in the European elections, performing powerfully across the country. The Eurosceptic party's victory marked the first time in modern history that neither Labour nor the Conservatives...
Rolling coverage of the 2014 European election results being announced in Britain and the rest of the EU Ukip wins European elections with ease Full results in the UK All results from across Europe 3.36am BST We're had all the results we're going to get tonight. The full Scottish results have not been announced, because the Western Isles does not count on the Sabbath, but with all the other Scottish...
Party doubles its MEPs in the capital to four as Lib Dems lose their only London representative Labour is celebrating after doubling the number of its London MEPs a result which is likely to edge the party past the Tories into second place overall across the UK. Four Labour candidates were returned shortly after 3am after a marathon wait thanks to the borough of Tower Hamlets taking so long to count...
Elections return record number of MEPs opposed to EU project, with far right winning in France, Denmark and Austria Rolling coverage of the European election results European politics were jolted as seldom before on Sunday when France's extreme nationalists triumphed in the European parliament elections, which across the continent returned an unprecedented number of MEPs hostile or sceptical about...
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front is in the lead for France's EU vote, according to an exit poll by Ipsos Steria. The party is on 25.2%, ahead of the centre-right UMP (20.6%) and the governing Socialist party (14.7). In the 2009 EU elections, the National Front got 6.34% ...
The populist Danish People's Party may have beaten PM Thorning-Schmidt's ruling Social Democrat party, 23.1% against 20.5%, a Danmarks Radio exit poll shows. The Liberal party is third with 17.2%. The Danish People's Party has confirmed talks with the UK conservatives on forming joint a political group in the EP. ...
Ollie Rehn, who was economic affairs commissioner until he took leave to run for an EP seat, is to return to Brussels as an MEP, according to Finnish broadcaster YLE. Alex Stubb, former MEP and Europe minister, is topping the poll for the National Coalition Party. ...
Exit polls published in Romania before closure of the polling stations show the ruling Social-Democrats ahead with 41%-43%, followed by the Liberals (13%-15%) and the centre-right Democratic Party (11%-13%). A new centre-right party is at 6%-7%. The Hungarian minority party and an independent will also pass the 5% threshold ...
Marine Le Pen has called on President Hollande to dissolve France's parliament after the Socialist's expected poor result today. "What else can the president do after such a rejection?" the National Front leader said. "It is unacceptable that the national assembly should be so unrepresentative of the French people." ...
Voter turnout in the European Parliament elections has hit a record low in Hungary. Half an hour before polling stations closed at 7pm local time, less than 30 percent of the electorate had cast their ballot. In the 2009 European Parliament elections the turnout was 36 percent. ...
Romania's National Liberal Party (PNL) has accused the victorious Social Democrats (PSD) of transporting citizens, including ethnic Roma, by bus around the country to vote multiple times in the EP elections. A PNL spokesperson said there were "powerful signs" of this "electoral tourism" and concrete examples of electoral irregularities. ...
In Sweden the left has won the day with 56% overall, exit polls suggest. The Greens have doubled their vote to 17%, for four MEPs, more than the governing conservatives (13%). Left Party has two seats, Social Democrats (23.7%) and one seat each for the Feminists and right-wing Sweden Democrats. ...
The turnout in the 2014 European Parliament elections was 43.11%, which is 0.11% higher than in 2009, according to European Parliament estimates. Spokesman Jaume Duch called it 'historic' that the trend of constant falling turnout in every elections since the first in 1979 has been broken. ...
Romania has today increased its turnout for the European elections from 27.7% in 2009 to 32.2%. The largest turnout was reported in the south and central south – among the poorest parts of the country. The lowest turnout was in the northwestern rural county, Maramures, and in Bucharest, with 26.9%. ...
Centre-right European People's Party top candidate Jean-Claude Juncker will seek a majority in the European Parliament for the top job at the European Commission, said EPP chief Joseph Daul after first projections put the EPP ahead with 211 seats. Juncker needs a majority both in the EP and member states. ...
Preliminary projections for the Strasbourg assembly give 211 seats to the centre-right EPP group, followed by the centre-left S&D with 193. In third place are the liberals ALDE with 74, then the Greens with 58, far-left GUE with 47, ECR with 39 and eurosceptic group EFD with 33 seats. ...