Talk:European Parliament constituency

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Earlier constituencies in the UK 

message: 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)
thread_title: Some work done

message: 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)
thread_title:  Map 

message: 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 81.108.166.235 (talk) 00:08, August 22, 2007 (UTC) 
:Only England is divided into constituencies. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are each a single constituency. ... Seabhcan 10:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euriopean Union Constituency 

message: 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#NI_disambig, I was surprised to find East (European Parliament constituency), which isn't mentioned at East (disambiguation). PamD (talk) 07:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Ireland names 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Numeric discrepencies 

message: 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)
thread_title:  London MEP numbers 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Outdated facts 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Italian so-called constituencies 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Delete GDP column