The Tally Room

Spain will elect 54 MEPs in 2009, the same number it elected in the last election in 2004. All Spanish MEPs are elected as part of a single constituency using proportional representation. The 2004 election saw the centre-left Socialist Workers Party (Party of European Socialists)...

Guest post from our Benelux correspondent, Justin-Paul Sammons. One of the smallest and wealthiest nations in the EU, as well as one of its six founding nations, Luxembourg goes to the polls on Sunday 7 June to elect 6 MEPs, the same number as in 2004....

With the resurgence of interest in proportional representation in the UK, and calls for an electoral reform referendum at the 2010 general election, I tracked down and read the report of the Jenkins Commission, which proposed a PR system for the UK House of...

Simon blogs regularly at Polswatch - Ben Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, two years after its formal establishment with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Sweden votes as a single constituency using a modified ‘Sainte-Laguë method of the highest average’ voting system. This...

Portugal has been a member of the European Union since 1987, when they first elected a delegation of MEPs. Portugal votes as a single constituency, with seats being distributed by party lists. They will elect 22 MEPs in 2009, after electing 24-25 at each...

There has been a lot of commentary on the Greens' victory in last weekend's Fremantle by-election result. First of all, it is clearly a significant result for the Greens. It is the first time the Greens have come first on primary votes in a...

Following the recent scandal in the UK, some senior figures in the Labour government have used the opportunity to push ahead with major democratic reforms: An intense cabinet-level debate is under way on the format of this initiative, its timescale and the range...

As a follow-up to yesterday's profile of the UK race for the European Parliament, I thought I would feature this campaign website for the Green Party's candidate for North-West England, Peter Cranie. The Greens, in addition to their seats in London and South East England,...

The United Kingdom will vote for its Members of the European Parliament on Thursday 4th June, the  same day as elections for England's 27 County Councils and a number of other local government bodies. While the UK elected 78 MEPs in 2004, this will fall...

This is the first in a series of profiles of each EU member state in the leadup to the European Parliament elections in early June. Ireland will elect it's Members of the European Parliament on Friday 5th June. The same day will see two by-elections...