Europe 2009 – summary

The overall results for the European Parliament were: EPP-ED - 264 PES - 161 ALDE - 83 G/EFA - 53 EUL-NGL - 33 I/D - 18 UEN - 14 Other - 110 While...

Guest post at FairVote Blog

I've been taking a break post-EU but will be back to usual transmissions soon, with a final concluding post on the EU and a...

Today’s elections

Since I focused all my attention on the European Parliament election, I've missed a few other elections. I thought it would be good to...

Europe 2009 – Results wrap part 3

Here we go with the final instalment, covering Greece and the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Bulgaria - The...

Maps update

I'm still working on my map of UK House of  Commons constituencies for the next general election. I recently finished the East of England,...

Europe 2009 – Results wrap part 2

Here we go again: Austria - It was a bad result for both parties in the governing grand coalition, with the centre-right People's Party suffering...

Europe 2009 – Results wrap part 1

Here is a brief summary of how the EU elections went in each country. Our first edition covers Ireland, the UK, Spain, Portugal, France...

Turnout and voluntary voting

I've been having a debate this afternoon with Sam Clifford of Public Polity over Twitter about the role of low turnout in the performance...

Europe 2009 – Results night

Welcome to the Tally Room's live coverage of election results from the European election. In addition to myself, there'll be liveblogging from a few...

Europe 2009 – Irish results

6:05pm - Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic went to the polls on Friday. Czechs will still vote on Saturday, and neither country...