National Coalition Party 3 22,0 301 524 Centre Party of Finland 3 20,8 286 052 Social Democratic Party 2 17,8 245 092 Green League 1 10,9 149 922 True Finns 1 10,0 137 487 Swedish People's Party 1 6,3 85 875 Left Wing Alliance 1 6,0 81 992 Christian Democrats 1 4,4 59 845
Social democrats down 1 seat, Swedish People's remarkably retains seat. True Finns (The Ugly Party) get a seat. Damn. How embarassing. You can't be me, I'm taken
National Coalition Party - EPP Centre Party of Finland - ALDE Social Democratic Party - PES Green League - Greens-EFA True Finns - Non-Inscrits (Libertas) Swedish People's Party - ALDE Christian Democrats - EPP *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Centre Party 19.0% (3 seats) -1
Social Democrats 17.5% (2 seats) -1
Green League 12.4% (2 seats) +1
True Finns 9.8% (1 seat) +1
Swedish People's Party 6.1% (1 seat) no change
Christian Democrats 4.2 % (1 seat) +1 You can't be me, I'm taken
(Thus ALDE 4 but the two parties are aligned differently within the group) You can't be me, I'm taken
Soini, by the way, has said out loud that he probably won't even go to the European Parliament, but plans to send a substitute instead. Pfffft. You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
(And also, in previous European elections the Left Wing Alliance had an Eurocritic as a strong candidate. This time he was not there anymore so the critical votes went to Soini's Ugly Party instead. The Left campaign this time was about "your conscience and Europe", not so much about "who needs the EU anyway", and it seems that it did not really attract voters. Which is a shame.) You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
l'UMP arrive largement en tête avec 28,3 % des voix suivi du PS avec 17,5%. La liste Europe Ecologie arrive en troisème position avec 14,8 % des voix devant le Modem qui totalise 8,7 % des suffrages. Suivent le Front National (6,5 %), le Front de gauche (6,3 %), le NPA (5 %), Libertas (5 %) et Lutte Ouvrière (1,3 %).
EPP: 28.3% PES: 17.5% Greens: 14.8% ALDE: 8.7% In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
PS (PES) 16.8% Europe-Ecologie (Greens-AFE) 15.7% Modem (ALDE) 8.?%
In Paris/Ile de France, Europe-Ecologie (Greens, Dany Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly) comes in several points ahead of the PS (PES).
UMP (EPP-ED) 30 seats PS (PES) 14 seats Europe Ecologie (Greens-EFA) 14 seats MoDem (ALDE) 6 seats Front de Gauche (GUE/NGL) 4 seats MPF+CPNT (Libertas) 1 seat
Wiki has the Front de Gauche as a GUE/NGL party.
And I thought all the action would be in the UK & Ireland tonight...
13h 17h 2004 24.56% 33.92% 2009 24.11% 33.79%
Party Votes (%) Seats(-4) PP 5.8M(-0.6M) 42%(+0.8%) 23(-1) [EPP] PSOE 5.3M(-1.4M) 39%(-4.8%) 21(-4) [PES] CEU 0.7M(-0.1M) 5%(-0.3%) 2(--) [EPP/ALDE] IU 0.5M(-1.2M) 4%(-0.4%) 2(--) [GUE/NGL] UPyD 0.4M(new) 3%(new) 1(+1) [NI] EdP 0.4M(-0.0M) 3%(+0.2%) 1(--) [EFA-Greens]
While I am not the happiest person with the current Spanish government, I am not sure what the PP has done to deserve the victory ... are they really going to win the next elections?
This outcome, 2-seat win over the PSOE and 4 percentage points, was described by El Pais today as a sign that the Government should worry.
It's just a 3.6% win, so it's borderline. The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
I'm going to bed now... The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
This can be also indicatiosn that recent internal political questions in Spain ahd an influence in the electiosn, int his case the lack of an agreement for the finantial arrangement between the Spanish State and Catalonia.
At least, our TV are showing report from all capitals... if only we would ahve selected a head of the comission .. I would bet that voting total would raise significatively only if some "Head" would be selected by the european parliament.
If not..everything is local.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
They had a high turnout in Madrid and valencia, again for purely local reasons regardign the support of the base towards the indicted corrupted members of the right-wing party.
PES (22%) 4 ALDE (25%) 3 UEN (15%) 2 Greens-EFA (15%) 2 EPP-ED (12%) 1 GUE/NGL (6%) 1
EPP-ED: 10 seats PES: 7 seats GUE/NGL: 4 seats Greens-EFA: 1 seat
