Talk:European Parliament constituency

Earlier constituencies in the UK
I seem to remember earlier and rather different Euro constituencies in the UK. The existing constituencies date from 1999? Laurel Bush 15:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC).
 * Euro elections in the UK were first-past-the-post in single-member districts until some point in the late nineties, yeah, so there were a great many constituencies that vanished when they went to list-PR by region. -The Tom 20:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Some work done
I researched the French population figures, added the figures up for the five states with constituencies, and generally tried to give a hand. ナイトスタリオン ✉ 12:31, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Map
Is someone able to make a map fo the EU showing sub-constituencies? So we have an exact map of all styles of constituencies to base election results on. I can usualy mess with maps but when it comes to drawing new borders I'm useless. -  J Logan t/c: 14:31, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Euriopean Union Constituency
There is an error for the UK Map. That is the English Map, Please add Wales, Scotland and Nothern Ireland on that page.

Many thanks

Alex —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)


 * Only England is divided into constituencies. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are each a single constituency. ... Seabhcan 10:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Ireland names
Are the Irish constituencies really called "East" etc, with no country name? Arising from discussion about dab links for Euroconstituency names at Talk:Northern_Ireland, I was surprised to find East (European Parliament constituency), which isn't mentioned at East (disambiguation). PamD (talk) 07:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh (insert name of deity of choice here), a question about the names of the constituencies. Well, at least you didn't ask about the names of the Polish constituencies (they don't have official names as of the time of writing, just numbers, so they end up being called either by the names of the matching voivodships or the city where the constituency office is located, and then there's the question of transliterating the Polish name into English, which is a whole new world of grief). Luckily, you asked an easy one, and the answer is "Yes, their official names are "East", "South", etc., without the Ireland qualifier". Or at least that's what the European Parliament Election 2004 website entry for Ireland electoral law says. If you can find an official source that says otherwise, please, please feel free to move them. And while you're at it, you could try and track down the electoral system Greece uses for EU elections (the EU factsheets and the Greek government website contradict each other), or write something explaining how Luxembourg has to get special procedures installed for each election because >20% of its residents are non-Luxembourg nationals, or work out whether Sweden/Finland (I forget which) was divided into 4 constituencies or not at the time of its first European election (again, contradictory sources). Still, at least you didn't ask about the German constituencies (whew). Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 02:45, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Germany?
"In Germany political parties are entitled to present lists of candidates either at Länder or national level."

What does this mean in practice, exactly, since the country is one constituency? --Jfruh (talk) 22:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Parties that submitted at a federal level in 2004 included SPD, Greens, PDS and FDP. Parties that submitted at at the level of the 16 Länder in 2004 were the CDU and CSU.
 * Parties that submit at a federal level (SPD, Greens, PDS, FDP) must register the list with the federal returning officer no later than 68 days before the elections. Parties that submit at the level of the 16 Länder must register the lists with the returning officer(s) at Länder level no later than 66 days before the elections.
 * Parties that submit at a federal level with less than five representatives in the German Bundestag or a Parliament of a Land must submit 4000 signatures alongside their official registration. Parties that submit at the level of the 16 Länder with less than five representatives in the German Bundestag or a Parliament of a Land must submit 2000 signatures alongside their official registration.
 * There are probably other differences as well, but I don't know.
 * Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 03:16, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thinking about it further, I may be missing a trick here. CDU and CDU operate as an alliance at the federal level, but are two different parties with two different geographical bases: CSU operate in Bavaria, CDU cover the rest of Germany. It may be that Germany operates as one single constituency but the "can stand at either federal or Lander level" may be just a procedural device to allow CDU/CSU to maintain their geographical separation and still stand for the EP. Will investigate further when time permits. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 00:16, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Numeric discrepencies
Poland is missing a figure for population per seat on its own table, whilst the individual table for the UK has a different average to the overall table.

Also are seats allocated by population or electorate? Timrollpickering (talk) 12:37, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, Tim. I don't know how the seats are allocated to the constituencies, but I do know that under the Polish system the number of seats per subconstituency isn't decided until after the election: the more votes cast in a subconstituency, the more seats allocated to that subconstituency. I guess (but do not know) that seat allocation works on the same basis as the rest of the election: certain broad criteria are laid down by the EU, but how they are implemented is up to the member states. So there may not be a simple answer to your question. I will investigate further if time permits. You may be best advised to hunt thru the sources and find out for yourself: some places to start would be EP fact sheet and EP2004 UK electoral law. Note that they can be contradictory: the EP fact sheet says that Finland is subdivided into subconstituencies, but EP2004 Finland electoral law says it isn't. Good luck. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 00:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Finland is not subdivided on those (or any, for that matter) constituencies for the EU Parliament elections, indeed.

88.112.22.6 (talk) 15:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

London MEP numbers
This is now 8 not 9 as in the United Kingdom table. As in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(European_Parliament_constituency) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Martin Dixon (talk • contribs) 19:51, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Outdated facts
Most of the pages' content date back to the 2004 elections. Since then, the number of MEPs has changed for most countries. Only a few sections of the page are up to date (such as Ireland, and now, France).

It might be particularly confusing for a visitor to notice a difference in MEPs for a given country from this country's table to the global table at the bottom of the page.

I think that the least that should be done is to mention in the section titles when statistics date back to the 2004 elections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nemesis973 (talk • contribs) 19:57, 11 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I've slapped an update tag on it as I can't do it now, but I don't think it is a priority. The change is minor and when ti is 2004 data it says so.- J.Logan`t : 16:28, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The data is again outdated. I have added an outdated-tag again, but with two links; so that interested readers can update it. C-Kobold (talk) 21:06, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Italian so-called constituencies
Italian "constituencies" are not true constituencies, since the number of MEPs for each of them is not fixed, but changes on the basis of the turn-out (higher turn-out means more MEPs). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.7.27.180 (talk) 19:10, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Approximatly proportional?
Last sentence before the table: "The quantity of MEPs representing each country, anyway, is approximately proportional to the population of that member state within the European Union." This seems wrong. According to the table Malta has a seat per 70k population while Spain has one seat perr 866k population.

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Delete GDP column
I don't understand what the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has to do with the European Parliament elections - nothing. It is also very outdated (8 years). Could we please delete this column? Thank you. C-Kobold (talk) 21:05, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Doesn't Area have even less to do with European Parliament elections? But the main focus of the article is about European Parliament Constituency and not about the elections themselves. Population / Area / GDP are ways to describe constituencies. I think that could be included. --Alternative Transport (talk) 08:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)