European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

Poland European Parliament election, 2004

13 June 2004 → 2009

54 seats to the European Parliament Turnout 20.87%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Donald Tusk Roman Giertych Jarosław Kaczyński Party PO LPR PiS Alliance EPP AEN AEN Leader since 1 June 2003 21 April 2001 18 January 2003 Seats won 15 seats 10 seats 7 seats Popular vote 1,467,775 969 689 771 858 Percentage 24,1% 15,92% 12,67%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Andrzej Lepper Krzysztof Janik Władysław Frasyniuk Party SRP SLD UW Alliance AEN PES ALDE Leader since 10 January 1992 6 March 2004 14 October 2001 Seats won 6 seats 5 4 Popular vote 656 782 569 311 446 549 Percentage 10,78% 9,35% 7,33%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Janusz Wojciechowski Marek Borowski Party PSL SDPL Alliance EPP PES Leader since 16 March 2004 26 March 2004 Seats won 4 3 Popular vote 386 340 324 707 Percentage 6,34% 5,33%

Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on 13 June 2004. 20.87% of eligible citizens voted; of these, 97.33% of the votes cast were valid. The elections resulted in a heavy defeat for the governing Alliance of the Democratic Left and Labor Union parties, although the very low turnout makes a direct comparison with national election results difficult. As expected the most successful party was the Civic Platform. Second place was taken by the strongly anti-EU League of Polish Families.

The radical populist Self-Defense of the Polish Republic, which some opinion polls had predicted would come second, came fourth after the Law and Justice party. The election results were a success for Social Democracy of Poland, which managed to cross the required 5% threshold, and the Freedom Union, which got over twice the expected percentage of votes.

Registered voters: 29,986,109
Votes cast: 6,265,062 (20.9%)
Invalid votes: 173,531 (2.8%)
Valid votes: 6,091,531 (97.2%)

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