Talk:Elections to the European Parliament/Archive 3

Forza Europa
A question has arisen concerning Forza Europa (the group that existed between 94 and 95). A discussion has opened up in Talk:Political groups of the European Parliament. Your input is requested there. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 15:27, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Request for consensus
A question has arisen concerning classification of groups in the European Parliament. A discussion has opened up in Talk:Political groups of the European Parliament. Your input is requested there. This notification falls under the "friendly notice" clause of WP:CANVASS. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 02:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Voting rights
Why is there no section on voting rights and who can vote? This differs from country to country, and in some cases, you can vote in two countries (although the system isn't supposed to work that way), usually because of dual citizenship. They talked about that on Swedish radio today and about problems with some people being allowed to vote twice. (212.247.11.156 (talk) 12:09, 24 May 2009 (UTC))

Cleaning article
This article has way too many templates (heck a whole section just to list collapsible tempaltes). it defeats the point of easy navigation thereof. these need to be curtailed or summasrised in sectionLihaas (talk) 04:06, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

voting in Britain
This isn't just done by closed lists. Independents can stand too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.140.57.113 (talk) 11:57, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Improvements

 * 1) The article doesn't give the outcome of the proposed reforms to the voting system by Duff.
 * 2) The article doesn't indicate much about the next election, except that it will be in 2014.
 * 3) Are member states constrained to run the next elections on a specific date or within a specific period in 2014, please?

Vernon White '''. . . Talk''' 07:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Election thresholds
The article claims that member states' electoral processes are subject to the restriction that "any election threshold on the national level must not exceed five percent". The citation for this statement is an EU fact sheet on electoral procedures, which is available here (English version). The fact sheet does not support the article's assertion, clearly classifying electoral thresholds as a matter to be determined by "national provisions", and commenting merely that "most major new Member States apply the 5% or 4% threshold". There does not appear to be a five per cent ceiling, so far as I can see, on the magnitude of the threshold. Cyril Washbrook (talk) 00:45, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed move
Should this article not be called Elections to the European Parliament? Unlike the country articles like Elections in Germany, this article does not include all elections in the specified territory but only elections to one parliament.--Boson (talk) 14:48, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * support such a move. I came to this page looking for that itself.Lihaas (talk) 04:03, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * against, lets just keep to convention.- J.Logan`t : 20:11, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Against, ditto. - SSJ t 17:27, 1 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Uuhh, what "convention" would that be? Category:European Parliament elections seems to have the correct name. jnestorius(talk) 18:24, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Protest votes ('Blank votes', 'White votes')
How are they being counted? Does anyone have sources for inclusion in the article? Are they treated as rejected votes? Are they treated as real protest votes (brining down the total percentage of winners)? Are they different in each country? Do they respect each country's system? What's going on. --AaThinker (talk) 20:46, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I can only talk for the Netherlands. But Blank votes is new to the Netherlands. All European elections before 2009 in the Netherlands, there is no difference between Blank and Invalid votes. The election council changed the rules and now sees Blank votes as a choice of the voter. (what this blank choice is, is unclear.) Hope that answers your question. 26 other Nations to go...BasBr1 (talk) 05:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it's not very unclear IMO, since it's traditionally everywhere that it means a 'protest' vote, in plain words "I didn't like either party but I didn't want to completely reject the system either, just to inform you that I didn't like the parties that were provided". It's supported by the wikipedia article too if I recall correctly. --AaThinker (talk) 09:27, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It can mean 101 things. I don't like the provided party's, i don't want vote for this, i can't make my mind up, I did not read up on what these party's stand for and now voting blank, exc.... I think all you can say about Blank votes is: The voter DID NOT WANT TO or COULD NOT vote for a party/candidate. BasBr1 (talk) 16:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Why would the Dutch need Blank Votes? It is the Belgians who are lawfuly obliged to cast a vote. --82.134.28.194 (talk) 11:05, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

the actual record....?
I believe I read that the voter turnout in Britain was at 32 point 5 percent. This would be somewhere in the 90s. This is what made Guinness state that the UK was a country with the lowest turnout at an election. I am also guessing that the record will be beaten by one country within the EU (such as the UK), or is it (theoreticaly) possible it happens elsewhere? --82.134.28.194 (talk) 11:42, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Misspelling "constituencies" = "constituencies"
This misspelling is in another article and I do not know how to do what needs to be done in order to correct it. Please correct it or indicate where in the codes is how I can correct it.
 * "constituencies" = constituencies" Srednuas Lenoroc (talk) 23:23, 7 June 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ See Talk:Apportionment in the European Parliament. Huon (talk) 23:53, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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