Voters from the 28 member states of the European Union have cast their ballot in what is the second biggest democratic exercise in the world. Ahead of the elections, pollsters had projected right-wing, anti-EU populists, including France's National Rally, Italy's League party, Germany's AfD and the Finns Party would score big, diminishing the influence of the European People's Party (EPP) and Socialist & Democrats (S&D) groupings. They had also predicted a good showing for Green parties across the bloc as climate change protests brought the issue to the fore of the campaign. Euronews brings you the results, country-by-country, as they trickle in: AustriaThe ruling People's Party, led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, comes in first with 34.5%, according to an exit poll. It is followed by the Social Democrats with 23.5% and the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) with 17.5%. The latter's score is believed to have been hit by the so-called Ibiza scandal which resulted in party leader Heinz-Christian Strache resigning as vice-chancellor last week after a secret video appeared to show him trying to trade public contracts for party donations from a woman he thought was the niece of a Russian oligarch.   BelgiumBelgium isn’t holding just one election on Sunday, but three: federal, regional and European. In the latter, will the greens capitalise on a strong showing in local elections to improve on their 6.6% vote share in 2014? Like many other European countries, Belgium also has a far-right party, Vlaams Belang, which is forecast to get up to 14.8% of the vote in Flanders. Nationally, the party got 4.2% five years ago.   BulgariaEven though voting is compulsory in Bulgaria, in 2014 voter turnout was only 35.84 % Bulgaria's vote is expected to be split between the centre-right GERB party and the country's socialist coalition party. The youngest current European parliament member is Bulgarian Andrey Novakov, who is 30.   CroatiaProvisional results placed the conservative Democratic Union (HDZ), which rules the country in a coalition, and the Social Democratic Party in the lead with 22.71% and 18.69% of the vote respectively. The right-wing Croatian Conservative Party is third with 8.49%.   CyprusPolls on Sunday suggested the ruling DISY party — an EPP member — came in first with 32.5% of the vote, broadly on par with 2014 results. Niyazi Kizilyurek, from the communist AKEL party — currently polling in second place — has become the first Turkish Cypriot to be elected as an MEP. The country is divided in The country is divided between Greek Cypriots and minority Turkish Cypriots, but over 80,000 Turkish Cypriots are reportedly eligible to vote in EU elections.   Czech RepublicThe ruling centrist ANO party increase its number of MEPs from 4 to 6, official results show. The second biggest delegation from the country is a right-wing formation, the Civic Democratic Party, which doubles its MEPs to 4. The anti-establishment, anti-corruption Czech Pirate party came in third with three MEPs, tied with the conservative STAN TOP coalition.   DenmarkProvisional results put the Social Democrats in the lead with 23.5%, ahead of the centre-right Venstre party — ruling the country in a coalition — which scored 21.5% of the vote. The Socialist party is in third (13.2%) while The Red-Green Alliance looks set to win its first ever seat at the European Parliament with 11%, while the People's Movement Against the EU got 3.9%. Danes are scheduled to return to the poll on June 5 for the country's general election.   EstoniaThe liberal Reform party has retained its first place with 26.2% of the vote, official results show. The Social Democratic party has claimed the second place with 23.3% of the vote, while the Centre party is in third with 14.4%. The far-right Conservative People's Party tripled its core to come in fourth with 12.7% and will be represented in the European Parliament with one MEP.   FinlandThe Scandinavian country was the first to officially release its results which saw the centre-right National Coalition Party claiming the top spot, with 20.8% of the vote, slightly below its 23.2% from 2014. The Green League secured the second place with 16.0%, ahead of the Social Democrats (14.6%) and the populist Finns Party, which makes it in fourth position with 13.8%.   FranceAn exit poll put the far-right National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen movement in the lead, just slightly ahead of French president Emmanuel Macron's La Republique En Marche! movement (LREM). The National Rally, then-known as the Front National, also won the EU election in 2014 while Macron's movement did not exist then. The Green party surprised to clinch the third place with 12.8% of the vote.   GermanyAn exit poll confirmed projections made ahead of the elections that predicted a surge of support for the Green Party, which clinched the second place with 21.8% of the vote — double its 2014 result. The ruling CDU/CSU alliance has come in first with a reported 28% of the vote while the anti-migrant and anti-euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) is fourth with 10.5%.   GreeceThe main opposition party, the conservative New Democracy movement, beat the ruling left-wing Syriza formation with 36% and 27% of the vote respectively, an exit poll has found. With national elections due in October, Greeks have been concentrating on domestic issues ahead of the EU poll. The country’s economic situation and the name change agreement with North Macedonia have taken precedence over European issues.   HungaryThe National Election Office has announced that the ruling right-wing Fidesz party has won with 52.14% of the vote. The Democratic Coalition came in second with 16.26% with the liberal Momentum movement in third with 9.92%. Fidesz's victory came despite repeated clashes with Brussels over rule of law and migration. The party has also been suspended from the centre-right European People’s Party grouping in the parliament.   IrelandIreland went to the ballot box on Friday and the Pro-EU Fine Gael party of Prime Minister Leo Varadkar was expected to be the biggest party. Meanwhile, the Green party had a strong showing and is likely to become the fourth largest party in Ireland.   ItalyThe far-right League party, the minority partner in the country's ruling coalition, is projected to win the highest share of the vote, according to an exit poll. The Five Star Movement, the majority partner in the coalition, is reported to score the third place, behind the Democratic Party.   LatviaThe liberal-conservative New Unity party — aligned with the EPP — retained the first place, although its share of the vote dropped from more than 46% in 2014 to 26%, provisional results show. It is followed by the Social Democratic Party (17.5%) and the right-wing populist National Alliance with 16.4%, the latter of which finished second in 2014 with 14.3%.   LithuaniaInitial results, with about 90% of votes counted, showed the centre-right Homeland Union had won with 17.41% of the vote, followed by the Social Democratic Party with 16.90%. The Farmers and Greens Union clinched the third place with 13.93%. Lithuania also held the second round of its presidential election which was won by economist Gitanas Nausėda, who is not affiliated to any political party.   LuxembourgThe liberal Democratic Party and the conservative Christian Social People's Party will both send two MEPs to the European Parliament having scored 21.44 and 21.1% respectively. The Green Party came in third with 18.91% of the vote, official results show.   MaltaGovernment corruption will be a large topic in Malta during the EU elections as the two major parties have both accused the other of corruption. Still, mainstream parties are expected to top the election. Even though Malta has two far-right Eurosceptic parties, it's unlikely that they will gain seats in the European Parliament.   PolandThe ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is estimated by an exit poll to have increased its share by some 10 percentage points to 42.4%. The European Coalition, led by European Council President Donald Tusk and comprised of his Civic Platform and a group of leftist and rural politicians, came in second with 39.1%. But turnout, although at a record high for EU elections in the country, still only stood at 43%. The EU elections kicked off a series of polls in the country: a parliamentary one follows in the autumn before a presidential vote next year.   PortugalPreliminary results — with 97.5% of the votes counted — show that the Socialist Party has won with 33.8%. The Social Democratic Party has placed — a distant — second with 22.6% with the Left Bloc trailing in third position with 9.6% of the vote. The Green party, Pan is on 4.8% and might have its first seat in the European parliament.   RomaniaAn exit poll found the ruling Social Democrats (PSD) — which has clashed with Brussels over anti-corruption and rule of law reforms — and the pro-EU National Liberal Party (PNL) tied in first place with 25.8% of the vote each. For the PSD, this would represent a 12 percentage point drop in support since 2014. The A 2020 USR PLUS alliance, which campaigned on anti-corruption and green issues, came in third with 23.9% of the vote. PNL and other pro-EU parties may be helped by the fact there is a referendum being held at the same time on PSD's controversial reforms.   SlovakiaThe Progressive Slovakia/Together coalition — led by recently-elected President Zuzana Caputova — has won the EU election with 20.1% of the vote, official results show. The social-democratic SMER party finished second with 15.7% ahead of the far-right People's Party with 12.1%.   SloveniaThe liberal Democratic Party has retained its top spot with a score pretty much identical to the one in 2014 (26.48%), according to preliminary results released by the State Election Commission with more than 98% of the votes counted. The centre-left Social Democrats came in second, more than doubling its results from 2014 with 18.57%. The list led by the country's Prime Minister, meanwhile, came in third with 15.62%.   SpainWith more than 99% of votes counted, the Socialist party, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, had scored an impressive 32.9% — ten percentage points higher than in 2014 and far ahead of the centre-right People's Party's 20.1%. The far-right Vox Party, which was contending its second EU elections, finished in fifth with 6.8% of the vote, far lower than the 10.3% it gathered in last month's general election. One curiosity of Spain’s EU poll is whether ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont — currently exiled in Belgium — will get elected. And, if he does, whether he’ll be able to take up his seat, as Euronews looked at in this article.   SwedenPreliminary results put the ruling Social Democrats in the lead with 24% of the vote. Their coalition partner, the Green Party, actually looks set to lose some four percentage points from 2014 and finish fourth with 11%. This is quite a disappointing score for the Green Party in Greta Thunberg's home country. The teen activist kick-started a global protest last year calling on lawmakers to take more decisive action to tackle the climate emergency. The far-right Sweden Democrats nearly doubled their score with a projected 16%, compared to 9.67% in 2014 to finish third, right behind the conservative Moderate Party's 17%.   The NetherlandsThe anti-EU, far-right Freedom Party (PVV), which was projected to do fairly well, actually saw its support plummet to 4.1% from 13.2% in 2014, according to an exit poll. Instead, the pro-EU left-wing Labour party is projected to be the big winner with 18.1%, followed by the governing (in a coalition) People's Party for Freedom and Democracy with 15%.   United KingdomWith nearly three-quarters of the votes counted, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is leading its nearest rival, the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats, by a ten-point margin with 31.6% and 20.5% respectively. The main opposition Labour Party is third with 13.6% while the ruling Conservatives are in fifth with 9.2%. AFP.