Talk:European Parliament election, 2004 (United Kingdom)
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Given that there is one less MEP for each constituency (apart from SW England and Northern Ireland), what does the 'Change of Seats' figure mean? Is this compared to a hypothetical election with 1999 votes but the seats as present? Morwen - Talk 22:21, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I'm basing it on the way the BBC is doing it. They've adjusted their figures to take account of the drop of seats. I'm not sure exactly how they've done that. Annoyingly the BBC have not updated their results for Yorkshire and the Humber. David Newton 22:27, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- The calculation for the adjustment on the 1999 results is easy because of the way the MEPs are elected. Outside of Northern Ireland (which uses STV), MEPs elected under the D'Hont formula whereby at each stage you divide the number of votes polled by a party by the number of seats so far won. Since the process does not use the number of MPs at any point other than the finishing post, it is possible to both calculate who "loses" a seat when the number available is cut (whoever wins the last one) and equally who would "gain" if the number were expanded. I hope that explanation makes sense! Timrollpickering 01:49, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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Does anyone agree with me that the map is not very informative or very attractive? It doesn't identify the electorates by name and the dots aren't easy to distinguish or interpret. Plus it's only England. Can someone come up with a better one? Adam 14:39, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Restructure
I would like to restriucture this article, combining the members and results section and putting the members in the tables. What do others think? AndrewRT - Talk 19:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Well I've done the East Midlands - what do others think? Should I do the rest the same? AndrewRT(Talk) 21:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
The map's wrong. Labour have 2 MEP's in Wales, Conservative 1 and Plaid 1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwerty1985 (talk • contribs) 10:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
