Comments on: First Euro-election poll

By: Euro elections and the major parties..

Euro elections and the major parties.. — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:23:49 +0000

[...] it happening. Would it be seen as a failure of the Labour Gov if BNP get a large vote? Is that it? UK Polling Report First Euro-election poll suggests that Labour will come 2nd, but this poll was taken 4 months [...]

By: p

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:46:20 +0000

Utterly meaningless considering how important “regional” variations in voting are under this system. SNP will get 2 seats in Scotland (might sneak a 3rd) Labour should hope to get 2, Tories 1, Liberals???? probably one as well.

By: The use of direct action by UKIP. - Page 3

The use of direct action by UKIP. - Page 3 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:14:47 +0000

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By: Paul H-J

Paul H-J — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:07:53 +0000

Christian,

Your point would eb valid if there were differential turnout as between entire regions.

However, the point is that in 7 of the English regions there will be County Council elections in part-only of a larger region. Since the County Council elections will be in areas where Tories (and to a lesser extent, LDs) are stronger, while the urban areas where Labour is stronger will not have local elections, differential turnout could distort the results in those regions. This could be particulalrly true in the West Midlands, North West and Yorkshire.

By: Anthony Wells

Anthony Wells — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:30:47 +0000

IF one is pondering how turnout is going to change in the european elections, its worth remembering that for several regions last time round there were all-postal pilots, which presumably aren’t being repeated this time around.