Green Party - 11 votesNo2EU - 8 votes
BNP - 7 votes
Lib Dems - 3 votes
Labour - 2 votes
Tories - 1 vote
UKIP - 1 vote
English Democrats and Libertas - 0 votes
Apologies to the Socialist Labour Party. I forgot to even add you as an option. What can I say? You are that forgettable.
Now, with this super duper gadget you simply enter how many votes each party gets, as well as how many blank or spoilt ballots (in this case, the 11 people who voted for the They're all bastards option) and it deals out MEPs according to the number available for your region.
So, if the European Elections for the North West go the same way as my blog poll, we will be getting 4 Green MEPs, 2 No2EU MEPs and 2 BNP MEPs. The next party to obtain a MEP would be No2EU, stealing one off the Green Party if it had received just one more vote.
So that's that.
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OpenEurope is a think tank calling for reform of European institutions. it has published an important league table of MEP performance here: http://www.openeurope.org.uk
MEPs have been ranked using two main categories:
‘Transparency, openness and democracy’ and ‘Fighting waste and misuse of EU funds’. http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/rankingguide.pdf/
I have gone through the data for UK Greens, Con, Lab, LibDem and UKIP and summated their scores. The lower the score the better. I noted their position on the ranking, summated those position scores and divided by the number of MEPs found.
Here are the results :
Greens - 51
LibDem - 116
Conservatives 152
Labour 205
Ukip 343
This survey is vitally important for the electorate. People are understandably angry with the three Westminster parties, and at the moment, due to deficient information, UKIP is the main beneficiary of the disaffection, polling 10-16% at the moment. This research shows that voting UKIP in protest at MP expenses scandals is to jump from the Westminster frying pan into the Brussels fire.
Talking of gizmos I find the online d'hondt calculator an invaluable tool :)
http://www.remy.org.uk/dhondt/dhondt.php
Heh, the site is a .cat. I still can't believe ICANN approved that extension, bet Spain wasn't happy.
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