TY - JOUR

T1 - Overrepresenting UKIP, Underrepresenting the Greens and Lib Dems

T2 - The 2014 European Elections in Great Britain

AU - Johnson, Richard

AU - Johnston, Ron

AU - McLean, Iain

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Revisiting a study conducted by McLean and Johnston in 2009, this article analyses the results of the 2014 European elections in Great Britain. Britain uses a regional list system to select its members of the European Parliament. The d'Hondt method, which is used to allocate votes to seats within each of the 11 regional constituencies in Britain, is shown to have allocated three more MEPs to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) than they would have received under the more proportional ‘Sainte-Laguë’ method. Additionally, under Sainte-Laguë, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats would have doubled and tripled, respectively, their representation in the European Parliament.

AB - Revisiting a study conducted by McLean and Johnston in 2009, this article analyses the results of the 2014 European elections in Great Britain. Britain uses a regional list system to select its members of the European Parliament. The d'Hondt method, which is used to allocate votes to seats within each of the 11 regional constituencies in Britain, is shown to have allocated three more MEPs to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) than they would have received under the more proportional ‘Sainte-Laguë’ method. Additionally, under Sainte-Laguë, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats would have doubled and tripled, respectively, their representation in the European Parliament.

U2 - 10.1080/00344893.2014.982694

DO - 10.1080/00344893.2014.982694

M3 - Journal article

VL - 50

SP - 429

EP - 437

JO - Representation

JF - Representation

SN - 0034-4893

IS - 4

ER -