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The nine MEPs elected from Latvia should coordinate more with each other, said MEP Ivars Ijabs (For Latvian Development), who was re-elected to the European Parliament according to the preliminary data of the Central Election Commission, in an interview on Latvian Television's Morning Panorama June 10.
At least 521,325 voters, or 33.83% of those eligible to vote, cast their ballots in the European Parliament (EP) elections in Latvia, according to data from the Central Election Commission (CVK). This is only slightly higher than the turnout in the 2019 and 2014 EP elections.
Following a protracted an arguably pointless wait of 28 hours since the closing of polls in Latvia on Saturday for the 2024 European Parliament elections, the results were finally published as Sunday turned into Monday.
New Unity and the National Alliance could have won the largest number of votes in the European Parliament elections in Latvia, according to what Latvian Television referred to only as "unofficial data" June 9.
On Saturday, June 8, at 8:00 p.m., all polling stations in Latvia closed and the European Parliament elections have come to an end.
Polls opened across Latvia June 8 for the main voting day in the 2024 European Parliament elections.
Early voting for the European Parliament elections continued on Friday, June 7 with 945 polling stations in open from 13:00 to 18:00.
The European Parliament (EP) pre-election period in Latvia, which lasts 120 days, has so far passed relatively calmly, the Chief of the State Police Armands Ruks said June 7 on Latvian Television's "Morning Panorama".
Since February, the interest of the Latvian population in the European Parliament elections has not changed significantly – both at the end of February and at the end of May, 32% of respondents indicated that they do not plan to follow the elections, according to a public opinion poll conducted by the research center "Norstat" in cooperation with LSM.lv.
On June 6, the second day of advance voting in Latvia, around 48,000 voters took part in the European Parliament elections, and a total of at least 4.1% of voters cast their ballots on the two previous voting days, according to data from the Central Election Commission.