Over 400 million people across the EU's 28 member states were eligible to take part in the elections.

You can find a broader European view of tonight's results here.

"It is going to be an absolutely great night for The Brexit Party," says anti-EU campaigner Suzanne Evans.

"Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver Brexit.

"The chickens are coming home to roost for them."

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn might not appreciate this result on his birthday.

His party has lost the borough of Islington to the Liberal Democrats.

Mr Corbyn lives in the borough, within which his Islington North constituency falls.

"We are going to get a kicking," says Labour's Emily Thornberry.

"The point is we went into an election where the most important issue was our view on leaving the EU.

"And we were not clear on the one thing people wanted to hear.

"We should have said that any Brexit deal should be put to a confirmatory referendum.

"And that Labour would have campaigned to remain."

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"We knew these were going to be bad elections," says Conservative Helen Whately.

"We wanted to have left Europe by now. It is frustrating for us and for people who usually vote Conservative.

"It is going to be a bad night for us.

"The strong message is we have to get on and deliver Brexit."

The results coming in at the moment are local results at council level.

These will be totted up within local authority areas and then they will then be aggregated within the 12 larger regions.

And that's when we will know who the MEPs are.

The first two results - in Leeds and Chelmsford, Essex - show increases in Green support of 2 and 7 points and so they may also be heading for better than the 8% that they won in 2014.

Change UK so far have registered 3%. It looks as though the forecast of the polls that they would perform poorly has been correct.

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The Liberal Democrats hold onto Gibraltar with a huge 77.4% of vote share.

The Brexit Party has also won Sunderland - previously held by Labour.

Nigel Farage's party won 39.8% of the vote.

Labour's vote share fell by 21.2% meaning they slipped to second place.

The Brexit Party has taken Leeds from Labour with 28.9%.

Labour gained 19.6% with the Lib Dems just behind on 18.4%.

The Conservatives are fifth, gaining 6.9% of the vote - behind the Greens who won 16%

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Both of our big main parties expect to be punished very severely for the meltdown in Westminster over Brexit.

The flip-side for the smaller parties? The Lib Dems are feeling buoyant and of course, Nigel Farage is back with a vengeance.

It is possible if the Brexit Party are top that they will have a very profound impact on what comes next in the UK's attempts to leave the EU.

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

It is not unlikely that the initial interest in tonight's results, apart from how well the Brexit Party does, is the status of the race for second place - some polling has suggested it is close between Labour and the Lib Dems.

As a guide, note that for the Lib Dems to overtake Labour they need just over a 9% swing across Britain as a whole. So whether or not they meet this target in the early results could well prove to be a crucial indicator to the overall picture tonight.

On the basis of the turnouts that have been collated from 150 councils, we estimate that the turnout in Great Britain will prove to be up by three points on 2014 and thus end up at some 37% or so.

This will make it the second highest turnout in an European Parliament election in Britain. It appears that the rise in turnout is somewhat greater in council areas that voted Remain in 2016 compared with those that backed Leave.