There is a certain discrepancy between El País and the BBC about which party has won how many seats. EP has 265, 162, 80 for the EPP, Socialists and Liberals respectively, while the BBC has 264, 183, 84.What I am not sure about, however, is where the British Tories are counted. As they have not yet, I believe, actually made good their threat to leave the EPP, they are presumably counted in that group's total. As they have 25 seats, that would make a bit of a hole (nearly 10%) in the EPP’s size and would alter the balance of party strengths. The EPP would still be the biggest but would not be as dominant.

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