Template:European Parliament election, 2004 - Statistics

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Area	European Union (EU-25)	Sources
Dates	• Thursday June 10: Netherlands, United Kingdom,  • Friday June 11: Czech Republic, Ireland  • Saturday June 12: Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Malta  • Sunday June 13: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden	[1]
Seats	732	[2][3]
Candidates	over 14,600	[4]
Electorate	342 million	[5][6][7]
Turnout	45.6%	[8]
Previous	European Parliament election, 1999	n/a
Next	European Parliament election, 2009	n/a
Election methods	All proportional representation.	[9]
Preference voting allowed?	• Yes, via open list: Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Luxembourg (with panachage), Netherlands, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden.  • Yes, via STV: Ireland, Malta, United Kingdom (NI only)  • No: the rest	[10][11][12]
Cutoff?	• 5%: Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia  • 4%: Austria, Sweden  • 3%: Greece  • none: the rest	[13][14][15]
Seat allocation	• Sainte-Laguë method: Latvia, Sweden  • STV method: Ireland, Malta, United Kingdom (NI only)  • Highest averages method: France  • Largest remainder method: Italy  • Pro-rata: Greece  • Droop method: Slovakia  • Hare-Niemeyer method: Germany  • Hare-Niemeyer method and D'Hondt method: Poland  • D'Hondt method: the rest	[16][17][18][19][20]
Constituency boundaries	• Member state subdivided into multiple constituencies: Belgium (3), France (8), Ireland (4), Italy (5), Poland (13), United Kingdom (12)  • Mixture: Germany (candidate lists at Länder or national level)  • Member state as single constituency: the rest	[21][22][23]
Minimum voting age	18	[24]
Presidential election	• First round: Josep Borrell, 388 votes; Bronisław Geremek, 208 votes; Francis Wurtz, 51 votes  • Josep Borrell, having achieved a majority of valid votes in the first round, was elected President of the European Parliament	[25]