Much has been made of the declining trend in voter turnout by Eurosceptics such as Eamonn Fitzgerald here who predicted an overall turnout figure of 32% for this election. In fact the actual figure was 43%. Still not a lot to crow about, I hear you say, but what this table makes clear is that most of...

The official results of the European elections have been finally announced. As for a Balkan country there were complaints for vote rigging, buying and selling of votes, vote recount wasrequested but turned down by the Central Electoral Commission that administers the elections. If we try to be more...

The European Elections are over. Four months of blogging, of looking forward, of Thinking About It. Quite exceptional for Belgium is the fact EVERYBODY is obligated to vote… and so was I. Still, I did’t go. For the first time I went to the city hall instead to give my father permission to...

I’m out of Ireland at the moment and really missing the election buzz.  I’m a real junkey for numbers and love the complexities of the Irish single transferable vote proportional representation system. It allows voters to vote for a list of candidates in order of their preference 1,2,3,4,5,6,...

EP elections in Latvia have passed silently. The most attention was taken by local municipal elections and especially of the intrigue who is going to be the next mayor of Riga city. We have elected eight candidates from six different parties. Latvia has not been surprisingly different from the rest of...

From Finland came 13 MEPs, 3 Conservatives, 3 from Center party, 2 Social democrats, 2 greens, and one from True Finn party, Swedish party and Christian Democrats.  The turnout was 40,2 % which was nearly one % less than during previous election 2004.  As I was following elections in Belgrade -or honestly...

European Elections are over! Bump! An event we were looking forward to for four month. Now it is over and nothing has changed. The turnout was quite low as usual. The campaigns were quite national as usual and there are no real surprises about the election turnout. Boring could you now think… But especially...

Well, it’s 2:15 am in the UK as I’m writing this, and the results for my region are in. I try to be an unbiased in absolutely everything I write, even wall posts on Facebook groups – but it is a sad day for the Northwest. Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, has won a seat in the European Parliament....

Reply to George Iulian JIGLAU latest post: (Arguments in defense of the many who will not vote in these elections) Dear George, Your counterarguments give me the impression that cynicism has beaten any optimistic approach to the political system as we know it. And I am fine with “pragmatism”...

A terrible fever has gripped Westminster, the fever of too many snouts in the trough, leading to resignations of top members of the Cabinet as well as MPs at large (at large is quite apt, criminal connotations…). Terrible time to hold a European election you’d think. But turnout wasn’t...