![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Jun. 8th, 2009
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-8-2009
Jun. 8th, 2009 12:00 pm-
Collect them all!
-
When you take into account the cost of building all that infrastructure.
-
Tells you what you would have won if you'd entered the same numbers in the UK national lottery since it started. £260 for me. Would have cost me £1500 to do it. Means I'm bound to win next week, right?
-
Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama's BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation.
-
This is very scary stuff
-
If they can put spotify on my mobile I will be insanely happy. I'd pay for _that_.
Dodgy Electoral Analysis
Jun. 8th, 2009 01:19 pmChatting about the electoral results, I was wondering how much skew was produced by the country being polled in regions, rather than as a whole.
What's interesting is that Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalist party) only got their seat because Wales was polled as a seperate region, and it's clear that this system does allow small regional parties more clout, but minor national parties (the Greens, BNP, English Democrats, Christian People's Alliance and Socialist Labour) do worse out of it.
Not sure how I feel about that...
Edit to Add:
8.5% of people voted for a party that got no MEPs at all. That's a lot of disgruntles people, I'd imagine.
| Party | Percentage | Potential MEPs | Actual MEPs | Unearned MEPs |
| Conservative | 27.7 | 19.1 | 25 | 5.9 |
| UKIP | 16.5 | 11.4 | 13 | 1.6 |
| Labour | 15.7 | 10.8 | 13 | 2.2 |
| Liberal Democrat | 13.7 | 9.4 | 11 | 1.6 |
| Green | 8.6 | 5.9 | 2 | -3.9 |
| BNP | 6.2 | 4.3 | 2 | -2.3 |
| SNP | 2.1 | 1.4 | 2 | 0.6 |
| Plaid Cymru | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.4 |
| English Democrat | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0 | -1.2 |
| Christian | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0 | -1.1 |
| Socialist Labour | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0 | -0.8 |
What's interesting is that Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalist party) only got their seat because Wales was polled as a seperate region, and it's clear that this system does allow small regional parties more clout, but minor national parties (the Greens, BNP, English Democrats, Christian People's Alliance and Socialist Labour) do worse out of it.
Not sure how I feel about that...
Edit to Add:
8.5% of people voted for a party that got no MEPs at all. That's a lot of disgruntles people, I'd imagine.