The Tally Room

Since I focused all my attention on the European Parliament election, I've missed a few other elections. I thought it would be good to mention a few interesting elections that are taking place today: Iran's voters are almost finished going to the polls to elect...

Here we go with the final instalment, covering Greece and the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Bulgaria - The result was largely status quo. The six parties contesting the election ended up being ranked in the same order. The...

I'm still working on my map of UK House of  Commons constituencies for the next general election. I recently finished the East of England, for a total of 270 constituencies out of 650. As you can see below, this map now covers the southern...

Here we go again: Austria - It was a bad result for both parties in the governing grand coalition, with the centre-right People's Party suffering a 2.7% swing, and the Social Democratic Party suffering a 9.5% swing. The SPO lost 3 of their 7 MEPs...

Here is a brief summary of how the EU elections went in each country. Our first edition covers Ireland, the UK, Spain, Portugal, France and the Benelux countries. Ireland - While Fianna Fail's vote collapsed and Fine Gael's vote rose, it didn't dramatically alter the...

I've been having a debate this afternoon with Sam Clifford of Public Polity over Twitter about the role of low turnout in the performance of the British National Party in the European Parliament election, the value of compulsory voting and how this all interacts....

Welcome to the Tally Room's live coverage of election results from the European election. In addition to myself, there'll be liveblogging from a few guest bloggers. The results website goes live at 2am tomorrow morning, and results should start coming in early on Monday...

6:05pm - Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic went to the polls on Friday. Czechs will still vote on Saturday, and neither country will count their European Parliament ballots until Sunday evening, so we don't have any information about the European results. However, Ireland...

Thursday June 4 saw voting in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. I haven't seen any results from the UK for either local council elections in England or the European Parliament (which I believe will be counted on Sunday), however, we have got results...

I've been writing so much stuff about the European Parliament election over recent days that I thought it would be useful to use one post to give links to all of my posts. Here are links to all 27 national profiles: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom