Comments on: European Parliament selections: turnout figures

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:56:04 +0000

The drop in the South East may be partly due to the fact that Chris Huhne was running for re-election last time and ran an impressive campaign to win the top spot.

I got the impression that there were far more active campaigns in the East and West Midlands this time compared to last.

By: Neil Bradbury

Neil Bradbury — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:04:28 +0000

Despite a fairly uncontroversial race with Fiona always very likely to win, the North East yet again showed it is a region with a positive membership, who are ery involved. I believe that it is one of the few regions where membership hs increased in the last year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:54:56 +0000

2- The last Radical, I have read that at least in Eastern England and North West some people didn't receive their ballot papers. If there were regional differences, this might explain why the turnout dropped in some regions.

By: Mark Pack

Mark Pack — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:06:45 +0000

Of course the party being too lazy to post you a ballot paper is one explanation Jamie

But there’s a range of others. Did you check that your membership was valid and qualified you to vote in the selection (12 months continuous membership)?

It’s a shame you seem to have missed this post if you’re an LDV reader Jamie, as that could have warned you that ballot papers should have arrived.

Also, if you have given the party a working email address for our membership records, we’ll have sent you several emails about the process – including information about how to ask for replacement ballot papers if the ballot mailing didn’t arrive.

(For people not on the internet, there was also other publicity about the selection happening).

By: Jamie Saddler

Jamie Saddler — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:47:01 +0000

And the figure for Yorkshire and the Humber would have increased by more than 3.2% if the party had actually bothered to send me a ballot paper.

By: The last Radical

The last Radical — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:59:27 +0000

Any one any idea why the South West and West Midlands had such an increase in turnout, or why the South East had a drop?

By: Jonathan Davies

Jonathan Davies — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:43:34 +0000

Mark’s average is the mean of the turnout figures for the nine regions. The actual England wide overall turnout figure is 50.1%, compared with 48.9% in 2003