The party failed to reach even the 5 percent threshold for representation in several state Parliaments.
Although the Sweden Democrats tripled their results to 3.3%, up from 1.1% in 2004, they remain below the threshold for representation in either the EP or Swedish Parliament.
The two most extreme parties and erstwhile coalition partners for the Kaczynski brothers' government — the League of Polish Families and the Self-Defense poorly— fared poorly Sunday, falling well below the 5percentt minimum threshold for representation in Parliament.
Two other small parties – the leftwing Meretz and Yisrael Beiteinu, led by the rightwing foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman – stand on the verge of failing to make the electoral threshold for representation, which could also affect the outcome.
Among the factors that will come into play is whether some of the smallest parties – including the leftwing Meretz – win enough votes to meet the electoral threshold for representation in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
Parliamentary democracy in Turkey was also a big winner as the pro-Kurdish, secular centre-left grouping, the People's Democratic party (HDP), appeared to slip past the mandatory 10% threshold for representation with about 11% of the vote.
But, with 4.7% of the vote in Germany's federal election of 2013, it narrowly missed the 5% threshold for representation in the Bundestag, a device designed to keep extremists at bay.
Though they won 14.9 percent of the vote in 2009, the Free Democrats have slumped to 5 percent in recent surveys — the minimum threshold for representation in Parliament.
The Free Democrats, polling right around the 5 percent threshold for representation in the state Parliament, won 9.9 percent of the vote.
His coalition partner in that government, the Slovak National Party, did not clear the 5 percent threshold for representation in Parliament this time.
