Czech republic
24 seats, 8.1m voters, turnout 29%.

The opposition Civic Democratic Party was the clear victor, winning 9 of the 24 European seats. The credibility of the three-party governing coalition of Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla was badly damaged. His own Social Democratic Party got less than 9% of the vote, and won just two seats. Coalition partner the Christian Democrats took 9.57%, also meaning just two seats. The Freedom Union, the third coalition member, failed to win a seat.

Estonia
6 seats, 1.07m voters, turnout 26.7%

The centre-right coalition government was outvoted. Instead the small, pro-EU Social Democratic party took three out of the country's six seats with 36.8% of the vote. However turnout was very low.

Hungary
24 seats, 8.16m voters, turnout 38.5%

The two conservative opposition parties, Fidesz and MDF, gained a total of 13 seats, as against 11 for the current government Socialist-Liberal coalition. European affairs did not feature strongly in the election campaign, which had focused on domestic issues such as economic performance, charges of corruption and the health service. Although better than neighbouring countries, the turnout still compared poorly to the 73.5% who voted in the 2002 general election.  A 30-year-old gypsy was among the MEPs elected, so for the first time Europe's 5 million strong Roma community will be represented in the European parliament.

Latvia
9 seats, 1.4m voters, turnout 40%

The current governing parties were decisively rejected, with only one party in the three-party governing coalition winning a seat. The opposition free-market For Fatherland and Freedom party was the big winner, taking four seats and nearly one third of the popular vote. The conservative New Era party won two seats and its leader, former Prime Minister Einars Repse immediately began pressing for a new government. The relatively decent turnout was actually far lower than the 72.5% turnout in the 2003 referendum on EU membership, when 2 out of 3 voters backed joining the union.

Lithuania
13 seats, 2.6m voters, turnout 46%

The largest share of the vote went to the centre-left party backed by Russian-born millionaire Viktor Uspakich. The currently governing Social Democrats came a long way second. Uspakich, already an MP in Lithuania's parliament, promised to stand up for the country's interests in Brussels. It was a message that seems to have won over many poorer voters.

The presidential election to replace impeached President Rolandas Paksas went in parallel, which may have boosted the turnout. In this no candidate got a clear majority. A second round between the top two candidates, former President Valdas Adamkus and former Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene will take place on 27 June.

Poland
54 seats, 29.4m voters, turnout 20%

The relatively few who voted rejected the governing centre-left, putting the Social Democrats into fifth place behind a number of right-wing or 'euro-sceptic' parties. The country's government, elected in September 2001, has lost public support and is currently close to collapse. Poland is by far the largest new member of the EU, but the turnout was the lowest in any Polish election since the end of communism in 1989.

Slovakia
14 seats, 4.2m voters, turnout 17%

In a unhealthily low turnout, four parties finished equal with about 17% of the vote each. Each will get three seats: Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda's Christian and Democratic Union, the populist Movement for a Democratic Slovakia of controversial former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar, and the centre-left SMER (Direction) and the Christian Democrats. The ethnic Hungarian Coalition Party will be represented with two seats. Slovakia will have the same number of seats as Finland and Denmark in the new European parliament. But it has started with the lowest turnout of all the 25 countries.

Slovenija
7 seats, 1.7m voters, turnout 28%

The governing centre-left Liberal Democrats came second, closely following the opposition centre-right New Slovenija party, which won nearly a quarter of the vote. Each of these will have two seats in the European parliament. The centre-right Democratic party will also have two seats, while the centre-left United Social Democrats won Slovenija's other seat. After voters in March 2003 had backed EU membership by a margin of almost 9 to 1, the turnout on 13 June was disappointing.