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Marine Le Pen unleashed a political earthquake in France on Sunday night, after her National Front party topped the poll in the European elections. ...

Marine Le Pen unleashed a political earthquake in France on Sunday night, after her National Front party topped the poll in the European elections. ...

Ukraine’s new leader has said reuniting the country and building closer EU ties are his two main tasks, after stomping to victory in the first round. ...

The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has won Italy’s EP elections, according to three exit polls published after polls closed at 11pm. The PD was said to be on 29.5-33.5 percent, followed by Grillo’s M5S on 25-29 percent, and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia on 16.5-20 percent. ...

Hungary's ruling conservative Fidesz will send 12 members to the new EP, down two, according to preliminary results. Far-right Jobbik came second, maintaining three seats. The Socialists halved their representation to two, two new left-wing parties won three seats and, for the first time, the Greens took an EP seat. ...

Martin Callanan has become the first European Parliament group leader to lose his seat. Callanan, who led the UK Conservative-dominated group of European Conservatives and Reformists, failed to win re-election in his north-east constituency. Labour won two of the region's three seats with UKIP winning one. ...

A 0.11 percent increase in the turnout compared to the last EU elections has been celebrated as 'historic', but some experts see a link to the strong anti-establishment vote in many countries. ...

Finland's results show the National Coalition and the Centre parties held their three EP seats each. The Finns (12.7%) scored less than predicted but doubled to two seats while the Left Alliance won one, the Social Democrats held two, and the Greens and the Swedish People's party took one each. ...

Preliminary results in the UK indicate the eurosceptic Ukip party came top with 29% of the vote, up 12% on five years ago, followed by the Conservative and Labour parties on around 24% each, the Greens on 8%, and the Liberals on 7% – half their 2009 figure. ...

The centre-right European People's Party won the most European Parliament seats, results on Sunday showed, but across Europe mainstream parties lost out to anti-establishment parties – with the biggest upset coming in France. ...

EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU election result "reflects our Union's mix of a pan-European political debate with specific national agendas." He urged the European Parliament and the Council, representing member states, to "respect" the result when choosing his successor, as an institutional battle looms. ...

The ruling Democratic Party (PD) has won Italy's EP elections, beating Grillo's anti-establishment M5S by a landslide, surveys suggest. A projection broadcast by SkyTG24, based on 50 percent of cast ballots, has the PD on 40.1 percent, against 22.5 percent for the M5S and 16.6 percent for Berlusconi's Forza Italia. ...

The Greens are the EP vote winners in Sweden, with 15.2% (3 seats), second only to the Social Democrats, 24.5% (6 seats). The governing conservatives lost the most, from 18.8% to 13.5%. The Feminist newcomers won a seat, right-wing Sweden Democrats (9.9%, two seats) and the Left party one seat. ...

Results from the European parliamentary elections are due on Sunday evening. Here is all you need to know UK voters went to the polls on Thursday to select candidates for the 73 UK seats in the European parliament Continue reading... ...

Could the Lib Dems lose all their seats? Will the BNP be wiped out? Here are six possible results and what they would mean Nick Clegg has already acknowledged that his party could get zilch seats and a briefing note leaked to the Guardian instructed MPs to brush off zero to four as expected. This is most likely an attempt to manage expectations, so the party can claim a victory of sorts if it loses...

Unofficial statements from electoral committees across Slovakia suggest that turnout may fail to surpass 20%. "I'm afraid we'll continue to hold a record in low turnout," said EU commissioner Maros Sefcovic, campaigning for the ruling social democrats. He added Slovakia needs to seriously think about how to tackle the issue. ...

A poll for Czech TV after the country's EU election closed Saturday found that 48% of Czechs thought the vote was "useless" and "will not change anything". The researchers linked the result with a record low turnout and said Czechs' basic identification with the EU was at stake. ...

Early turnout figures published at 10am local time by the Romanian electoral bureau show that more voters (4.61%) showed up so far compared to the 2009 EU elections (4%) and the 2007 vote (3.6%). People living in the countryside went in larger numbers (5.03%) compared to urban voters (4.3%). ...

In Sweden 'pre-voting' was up 15-20% on Sunday compared to the 2009 EP elections, and polls confirm turnout is likely to be higher than the 45.5% from 2009, possibly 54%. To counter the rise of Europe's far-right, 53 Swedish celebrities joined '#I Will Vote' urging young people to vote. ...

By noon, voters in Hamburg and Dresden, which are also holding local council elections, had shown up in large numbers. EU elections turnout in Hamburg was 21.4% at 11am, according to official partial turnout figures , while in Dresden it was 32% at midday. ...