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The Baltic states: mixed results for incumbents
Liisa Talving and Lukas Pukelis
Estonia
The third European Parliament elections in Estonia were considered a preview of upcoming general elections in spring 2015, above all providing insight to power relations in domestic political scenery. Implementing open party lists as opposed to 2009 enabled the heavy artillery of Estonian politics to go against each other in competing for the title of the most popular politician in the country. Amid the low overall turnout (36.4%), the proportion of e-voters notably increased compared to 2009, reaching to 11.45% of those eligible to vote and to 31% of actual voters (in 2009, 6.5%...
Poland: Old turnout and New Right
Michał Kotnarowski and Mikołaj Cześnik
Introduction: the context
The European Parliamentary (EP) Elections held on 25th May were the third EP elections in modern history of Poland. The first election took place in 2004, just after joining European Union, and the second in 2009. The main characteristics of previous Polish EP elections were low voter turnout and relatively good results of small and radical parties.
Voter turnout in 2004 EP elections in Polish case was 21% and it was the second lowest rate among EU countries in 2004 EP elections. The only country with lower voter turnout was Slovakia (17%). The voter...
France: the historic victory of the Front National
Luana Russo
France went to the polls on Sunday 25th May. France elected 74 MEPs (two more than in 2009) using a proportional system with a 5% electoral threshold and closed lists. Political parties establish the order of candidates on the lists; voters can only cast a vote for the list and not for individual candidates. Seats are thus attributed according to the order in which the candidates are presented on the list. The national territory is divided up into eight constituencies (including one for all of the overseas territories).
The election campaign
In France, as in several other European countries (e.g....
L’avanzata elettorale della destra populista ed euroscettica
di Nicola Maggini
Le elezioni europee del 2014 si sono ormai concluse con la conseguente ripartizione dei seggi tra i vari partiti a livello nazionale. I partiti nazionali poi dovranno costituirsi in gruppi politici all’interno del Parlamento Europeo (PE). Nel presente articolo analizziamo innanzitutto il risultato elettorale dei partiti che nello scorso PE facevano parte del Gruppo Europa della Libertà e della Democrazia-Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD), gruppo politico che raccoglie all’interno del PE i partiti della destra populista ed euroscettica, se non esplicitamente anti-euro ed anti-UE (Taggart 1998; Taggart e Szczerbiak 2004; Szczerbiak e Taggart 2008). Come...
Sweden: an escape from mainstream parties
Nina Liljeqvist
In the 2009 European elections, Swedish voters favoured government parties on the centre-right and gave the cold shoulder to alternatives on both the far-left and far-right. Come 2014, things could not be more different. This is the fifth European Parliament election for Swedish voters and while voter turnout is on the up, support for the mainstream parties on both the centre-left and centre-right is decreasing.
From the campaign to the result: the winners
The voters are instead rewarding those that have emphasised specific issues and concrete alternatives in the campaign, namely green politics, feminism, and nationalism. The Green Party (Mp)...