The first elections to the European Parliament after the EU accession were held in the Czech Republic on June 11 and June 12, 2004. On a very low turnout, the ruling Czech Social Democratic Party suffered a heavy defeat, losing ground to both the conservative Civic Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.

Debacle of his party was one of reasons for resignation of Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla.

 Registered voters: 8,283,265 % Votes cast: 2,345,933 28.3 Invalid votes: 13,148 0.6 Valid votes: 2,332,785 99.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Party Votes % Seats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Civic Democratic Party (ODS) 700,915 30.0 9 Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) 472,843 20.3 6 Union of Independents and European Democrats (SNK/ED) 257,271 11.0 3 Christian Democratic Union (KDU-ČSL) 223,379 9.6 2 Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) 204,895 8.8 2 "The Independents" movement (N) 191,025 8.2 2 Others 282,457 12.1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 2,332,785 24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

External link

Detailed official results (http://www.volby.cz/pls/ep2004/ep?xjazyk=EN) (in English); note that the numbers differ by a few votes from those given here as they were apparently corrected later