Talk:2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

Northern Ireland

Parties and coverage should be included. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.29.210.111 (talk) 15:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC).

A column in the NI table should show candidate names, as there's only one per party. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.227.115 (talk) 23:52, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

New seats

2 things:

(a) might be 73 now not 72

(b) seat allocation is different

See http://www.vote-2007.co.uk/index.php?topic=1581.0 AndrewRT(Talk) 21:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee has now proposed 73 for UK:

Member State Proposed new proposed distribution2009-2014 Germany 96 France 74 United Kingdom 73 Italy 72 Spain 54 Poland 51 Romania 33 Netherlands 26 Greece 22 Portugal 22 Belgium 22 Czech Rep. 22 Hungary 22 Sweden 20 Austria 19 Bulgaria 18 Denmark 13 Slovakia 13 Finland 13 Ireland 12 Lithuania 12 Latvia 9 Slovenia 8 Estonia 6 Cyprus 6 Luxembourg 6 Malta 6 EU-27 750

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/001-11037-274-10-40-901-20071001IPR11035-01-10-2007-2007-false/default_en.htm

AndrewRT(Talk) 15:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

"Super Thursday" is now very unlikely

From the article:

It has been predicted that the election may coincide with the next general election.[1]

The reference links to a People story from March 2007. The political landscape has changed hugely since then, and it now seems very unlikely that the general election will be held until 2010. Loganberry (Talk) 12:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

First poll

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4214369/Loosen-Britains-ties-with-European-Union-say-two-thirds-of-voters..html

YouGov polled 2,157 adults between 6 January and 8 January: (+/- from 2004 election)

Con 35% (+8) Lab 29% (+6) LD 15% (n/c) UKIP 7% (-9) Grn 5% (-1) BNP 4% (-1) SNP/PC 4% (+2)

--Mais oui! (talk) 07:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, election is in roughly four to five weeks from now. Are there any other opinion polls? Having one from January is probably totally way off. - I am guessing coverage for this election is very low. Are there any turn out figures? --Lexxus2010 (talk) 11:40, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Opinion polls: principles

I have certain concerns about this section, namely that the Predict09 website is not proper opinion polling, rather an adjustment of 2004 results to account for the new regional allocations of MEPs. Secondly, all future polls should be specifically about voting intentions for the European elections. In particular, percentage-of-the-vote results for the minor parties (UKIP, Greens, SNP, BNP et al) differ greatly between national and European elections. Also, as a rule, there should be static links to trusted sites, i.e. major polling organisations, or national newspapers.

I vote that the Predict09 results be moved or removed:

Furthermore, if we are happy as a 'community' for there to be opinion poll results on this page, then more up-to-date results ought to be sourced.Orthorhombic (talk) 14:52, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

• Predict09 is not an opinion poll, it is a re-working of past results to fit the new seat allocation. Result - it should be removed. As for other polls, yes we should include them BUT not too many (Wiki is not a news paper), nor too many from a single polling agency. doktorb _words^deeds 15:05, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

• I agree that Predict09 should be removed as it is not an opinion poll. As far as I am aware, the TPA/YouGov poll from January is the only European voting intention poll that has been carried out so far - although one would expect for more to be carried out and published as polling day gets closer. Spiritofsussex (talk) 15:14, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

• • Given that there has been no further comment, I will remove the line in question. Orthorhombic (talk) 09:32, 11 April 2009 (UTC)