Published: 3:25 AM . Elections 2009 . ... Michael White on Gordon Brown's leadership difficulties after Labour's disastrous European election results. Jun 2009, 09:23. This document does not represent the European Parliament’s point of view. The European Parliament is an important forum for political debate and decision-making at the EU level. The whole of Northern Ireland forms a three-member constituency, and elections take place every five years by proportional representation (using the Single Transferable Vote) as for local councils and most regional-level elections. Earlier work by Bowler and Farrell (2011) and De Vreese (2009) pioneered the use of political elite studies to understand EP campaign dynamics. • The Labour share of the vote down 6% on the equivalent European elections five years ago. January 2010. The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make … The European Election Studies (EES) are about electoral participation and voting behaviour in European Parliament elections, but more than that. The data we use are drawn from the European Election Candidate Study (EECS) 2009, which represents a hugely promising source of insight for students of EU-level politics. 5.5. From 4-7 June, around 375 million eligible voters out of a population of just under 500 million will be able to cast their ballot, making these the largest transnational elections in the world. This weekend's EU-wide elections for the 736-seat European Parliament generated the lowest turnout in the legislative body's 30-year electoral history. European elections in NI, 2009. Northern Ireland and the European Parliament. Interest in the European elections § Men seem more likely than women to be interested in these electi ons. As I have already written, the speculations about the figure of the Bulgarian representative of the 2009-2014 European Commission have been going for quite some time now. In July 2006, Cameron also committed to forming a new parliamentary grouping after the 2009 European elections, one dedicated to free markets and a model of European … The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament Country Reports Edited by Wojciech Gagatek Foreword by Yves Mény European University Institute Florence, Italy Labour had its worst results since 1918 in Scotland and Wales. Members of the European Parliament have been directly elected since 1979. Podcast. [1] Less than 43 … § The proportion of respondents interested in the 2009 European elections increases in line with levels of education. The 2009 European elections Fieldwork: March – May 2008 Publication: September 2008 Special Eurobarometer 299/ Wave 69.2 – TNS opinion & social This survey was requested by the European Parliament. The parliamentary elections in Bulgaria (held on July 7th 2009) have reduced the list of possible candidates to just two. The seventh elections to the European Parliament since the chamber became a democratic elected institution in 1979 are just days away.