Euro Elections Briefings

20 things we learned about democracy in September 2014

20 things we learned about democracy in September 2014

September 2014 was a big month for democracy, with party conferences and of course the Scottish independence referendum. Democratic Audit’s Sean Kippin rounds up 20 things that we learned about democracy this month, and talks about the referendum and conferences, but also elections in the House of Lords, human rights, and KFC chicken.  Similar PostsThe […]

20 things we learned about democracy in August 2014

20 things we learned about democracy in August 2014

Parliament was in recess throughout August, despite calls for its recall. Even so, none of this meant that British democracy stopped last month, with numerous interesting facts, factoids, and observations revealing themselves. Sean Kippin of Democratic Audit selects the best and most interesting. Similar Posts20 things we learned about democracy in March 201520 things we […]

20 things we learned about democracy in July 2014

20 things we learned about democracy in July 2014

July 2014 was a quieter month for democracy, with things settling down into a lull for the summer. But that doesn’t mean that nothing of note happened, with Sean Kippin bringing you the latest instalment of our 20 things we learned about democracy series, which is once again bursting with choice nuggets of democracy information […]

Euro elections – find out about your new MEPs in the North East, North West, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Euro elections – find out about your new MEPs in the North East, North West, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Democratic Audit has recently been engaged in finding ways to improve the information that voters receive in the aftermath of elections. Having already previewed the contests by region, and provided information as to what happened in England’s southernmost regions and the Midlands, Wales, and Yorkshire and the Humber, the Democratic Audit team are providing brief details and links to learn more about […]

Euro elections – Who are your new MEPs in the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, and Wales?

Euro elections – Who are your new MEPs in the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, and Wales?

Democratic Audit has recently been attempting to improve the feedback that voters receive after they cast their vote at the polling station. Having already previewed each of the contests, and provided information as to what happened in England’s southernmost regions, the Democratic Audit team are providing brief details and links to learn more about all the new […]

Euro elections – who are your new MEPs in the East of England, London, the South East, and the South West?

Euro elections – who are your new MEPs in the East of England, London, the South East, and the South West?

A key theme of Democratic Audit’s recent work has been the need to radically improve the feedback loop from election outcomes back to voters, and nowhere is this clearer than with the European Parliament elections. Here the votes are counted and results only in the late evening three days after polls have closed, and typically […]

Euro elections – we predict the results for every region in the UK

Euro elections – we predict the results for every region in the UK

To sustain voting in liberal democracies, it is vital to give voters immediate feedback on what their votes mean. The Democratic Audit team has been analysing the competition in the UK’s European Parliament elections at regional and country level. To round off our coverage we now predict these results in a detailed way, based on […]

Everything you need to know about the regional contests in the European Parliament elections across the UK

Everything you need to know about the regional contests in the European Parliament elections across the UK

The Democratic Audit team have been running a series of posts previewing the European Parliament elections in the UK on a seat-by-seat basis. Here, the team summarise these previews, while providing additional information about the electoral systems in use for the contest, and a set of simplified ballot papers which show each candidates actual chances of being […]

Euro elections – previewing the election in the North West

Euro elections – previewing the election in the North West

In our final regional preview for this week’s European Parliament elections, the Democratic Audit team look at the North West of England, a large region that elects eight MEPs. In 2009 the opposition Conservatives won the highest number of votes here and three seats, and the far right British National Party also won an MEP. […]

Euro elections – the contest in Wales

Euro elections – the contest in Wales

Wales returns four MEPs and in their latest preview of this week’s Euro elections the Democratic Audit team show that Labour and the Conservatives can be pretty sure of returning two of them. There is then a four way battle over the last two seats, between them, Paid Cymru and UKIP, with others parties unlikely […]