Positive signs for
the European election count on Sunday.
Not exact matches
You might now look at recent US
election results and reason that even if the US would use the
European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.
British
Election Study data released today (collected between February and March 2014) shows that 17 % of people intend to vote for UKIP in the May
European Parliament
elections (23 % when
counting only people giving a party choice, excluding «don't know» responses).
This is something backbenchers have been pushing for over the past year — and there are more than 100 of them by one
count — so not only would a Bill help the party on the doorstep when it comes to the
European elections in 2014, but it will also cheer up MPs.
Electoral Commission finds Tower Hamlets
count of mayoral, local and
European elections in May was poorly resourced
At the Dublin
European Elections contest, sitting MEP Paul Murphy (Socialist Party / Anti Austerity Alliance) won 29,953 first preference votes (8.5 % of the votes), leaving him in sixth place on the first
count, and Brid Smith (People Before Profit Alliance) won 23,875 votes (6.8 %).
Counting in the
European election will resume in Northern Ireland later today with officials facing heavy criticism over the length of time the process has taken.
Whether Ukip commands nationwide support in the high teens, as in 2014, or the low 20s, as in 2013 — perhaps more when the
European elections are
counted on Sunday — the upshot is the same: English local government has four big parties now.