Great Britain votes on Thursday, May 23, for its members of the European Parliament. See this Independent article, giving poll results. They show the Brexit Party has 34%, Labour 21%, Liberal Democratic 12%, Conservative 11%, Green 8%.
This election is conducted using proportional representation, with twelve districts.
Fourth place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election
mere 751 MOB scene with UK ???
mere 705 MOB scene with NO UK ???
ANY pressure on UK to merge with USA ??? —
THE 2 major ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander regimes.
thanks, Jeff. I just fixed it.
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/electoral-administrator/european-parliamentary-elections
UK EC = Approx USA FEC
Don’t blame me. I voted for the Demo Rep party. Or was that the James Ogle XII party?
You mispelled United Kingdom.
With a poll purported to be proportional representation in BAN, I am very skeptical of these numbers and polling reports.
ANY alleged voters now LYING to moron pollsters [as in the USA] —
esp. for the Brexit Party — to rot the brains of the Cons/Labs *leaders* ???
EU elections in the UK use PR.
With these figures, it would certainly help to know how many seats are being elected and whether they are all elected simultaneously and at-large, so to determine whether it is or isn’t proportional representation.
@James Ogle: You can read the details about the election in Wikipedia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom — particularly the “Constituencies” and “Electoral method” sections.
The use of gerrymander regions produces distorted overall results.
The overall EU structure gives smaller regimes over-representation — a bit like the USA Senate math.
IE – BASIC PR
Party Members = Total Members x Party Votes / Total Votes
The closed party list system and the twelve gerrymandered districts really do stack the odds against regular people. At least Northern Ireland appears to be using what the United Coalition terms pure proportional representation (PPR).
We are working to bring PPR to both USA’s Los Angeles City Council and to the Electoral College.
The twelve districts divide.
Proportional representation requires at-large election.
To unite the whole (including Ireland) would be correct and they aren’t using proportional representation unless Ireland were included.
It’s my opinion that avoiding elections at-large, they are driving Ireland away.
Just as the plurality Brexit vote created the rift and division, now it appears that they will pretend to use proportional representation but they don’t use it, so to continue the trend of election problems.
PR does NOT require at large elections.