On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:28:54AM +0800, Alex Macfie wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:29, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
No, error, bad! wrong! European Parliament elections (AIUI) use a proportional representation system and going by the results of the last election is possibly not a good idea.
It's a regional lists system. The regions contain between 3 and 8 (I think) MEPs. They're small enough for tactical considerations to still matter.
Yes, but they are proportional representation within each of those regions, for us in East Anglia we have either 7 or 8 MEPs I can't recall right now. Either way I was not going to vote for UKIP as that would send the wrong message overall, at least in East Anglia we had a good spread of anti-swpat parties so most people could probably find one that they wanted to vote for out of UKIP the Greens and Martin Bell and it would also be hard to vote tactically seeing how this time round the elections are quite unpredictable due to the amount of people who are talking about not voting for either Labour or Conservative.
Adam