TALLINN, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Five Estonian parties shared the country's six seats for the 751-member European parliament, the National Electoral Committee announced on Sunday night.
The Estonian Reform Party won two seats. The Social Democratic Party (SDE), the Center Party, the Conservative People's Party and Isamaa each took one seat.
Marina Kaljurand from the SDE was the most popular candidate with 65,559 votes, followed by Andrus Ansip (Reform) 41,006 votes, Urmas Paet (Reform) 30,010 votes, Yana Toom (Center) 27,003 votes, Jaak Madison from the Conservative People's Party (EKRE) 22,823 votes, and Riho Terras (Isamaa) 21,474 votes.
The seventh place went to Sven Mikser, who is also a Social Democrat, with 2,886 votes, according to the election results.
Estonia is expected to be given one more Member of European Parliament mandate after Britain's withdrawal from the European Union scheduled for Oct. 31, which will reduce the number of seats in the European Parliament from the current 751 to 705.
Compared with the results of last European Parliament election in 2014, the change of seats in the Estonian electoral district is the seat went to EKRE from the Independent.
The preliminary data showed the voter turnout in Estonia was 37.3 percent, against the 36.5 percent in the 2014 European Parliament elections.
