Voting has ended in the Czech Republic election for the European Parliament.
An exit poll by Czech television indicates that the euro-sceptic opposition Civic Democrats took 30% of the votes, the Communists 17% and the government Social Democrats only 11%.
The exit poll suggested that the turnout over a day and a half of voting was 27%.
Latvia and Malta were voting today in their first European Parliament elections.
Nearly 350 million people are eligible to vote over four days in the 25 member states.
The Netherlands voted on Thursday, with a reported 39% turnout. Authorities there defied European Commission regulations, publishing some results ahead of the final close of voting on Sunday.
The figures showed the ruling Christian Democrat party to have won by a wafer-thin margin.
The UK also voted on Thursday, in combination with Local Elections. Turnout was reported to have risen significantly from the 1999 figure of 24%.
Counting in North on Monday
Counting in the North's European Parliament election will not begin until Monday.
The turnout figure there was just under 52%. That is almost 6% down on five years ago, but not as low as had been predicted.
Among the constituencies with the highest turnouts were traditionally nationalist areas such as Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry, as well as nationalist areas in Belfast.
The Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin believe their candidates, Jim Allister and Bairbre de Brún, will capture the first two of the three seats.
The battle for the final seat is expected to be between the Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson and the SDLP's Martin Morgan.
