Please tell me this headline is wrong.. (Exit poll news from Italy)

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Le Pen is first? my Italian is crap.

it works fine OYBK, it was an excel error!

So we need to change it from being only for the privileged.

Putting it through, I get:
Ukip 542812
Con 446569
Lab 271601
Ukip 271406
Con 223284
Ukip 180937
Con 148856

Had we gone further it would have then been
Lab 135800
Ukip 135703
Green 133331

Etc.

It isn't only for the extremely priveleged, that's just the perception, but it isn't really for everyone. It's for anyone prepared to do the travel, learn the extra languages (some people can't learn languages very easily) be further from home for longer (some can't afford to do this). But there is no getting around not being able to go home to get well fed at weekends, or being able to save up, look after sick relatives or stay in touch with grandparents as easily. And when you return the friends and contacts and work experiences you made are in another country.

dh was why don't you use excel, but it was quite satisfying to work out by hand,

If only I'd checked the thread before getting going with it though

Just shoved it through the Sainte-Lague system. Result would have been different

Ukip
Con
Lab
Ukip
Con
Green
Ukip

So we would have lost a conservative and gained a green!

Under the Macau d'Hondt method v/(2^s) it would have been
Ukip
Con
Lab
Ukip
Con
Lab
Ukip

Weighted more to the original set.

What family fun we have on a bank holiday all 3 of us are gathered round the keyboard.

I can't contribute anything intelligent OYBBK but I am very impressed!!

Its been a good lesson for dd that it isnt as simple as vote and and a result is declared but how the results vary depending on which pr system you choose. Mind you I hadnt expected for that to show so clearly when just choosing top 7!

Pretty much come to the limit of what I can do now.

Has anyone got a link to the percentage of votes for the parties in each region?

I think my region may have had the highest percentage in the whole country voting for UKIP. We are always ahead of the curve down ere

In fact, if UKIP target this region in the general election, they'll find so many seats up for grabs that UKIP won't know which ones to pick and choose.

Let's hope people come to their senses before the next general election claig and realise who they are voting for.

It all depends if the parties can win them back. They think they can, but it depends on what happens in the coming year. It also depends on what sort of policies UKIP announce.

I'm hoping this will shock a lot of people and they will vote for the lesser evil even if the party doesn't directly represent their view. I'm also crossing my fingers for the first time voters who will traditionally vote left.

UKIP adequately expressed their policies in their 2010 manifesto, the one Farage launched and wrote the forward too.

Lumpy, UKIP have changed. idiots have been sacked and the mastermind who wrote the 2010 manifesto, whom Farage called an "idiot", has returned to the Conservative Party.

Shame they didn't actually bother to create a manifesto for 2014 claig rather than a few pages full of pretty pictures and vague statements.

As you seem to be unable to use google to find the results:
here

I know that claig. But Farage launched it and wrote the forward to it so he fully endorsed all the views it held only 4 years ago. They are clearing up the internet because that one document shows how vile and deeply hateful their opinions are.

You say they've changed? They haven't changed and a close look at their supporters and backers proves this.

here is the 2010 manifesto :)

I have found the percentage share on wikipedia. Our region had the highest UKIP percentage anywhere at 34.5%

We will have to wait and see what policies they come up with in their new manifesto.

Lets hope they manage to write one before the General Election.

Cheers for that kitten. I wander if they will keep article 15 Culture and Restoring Britishness?

Some particularly vile ideas in that article. Really wish I could find the policy document behind it.

YES! Restoring Britishness

Thank you to the website who archived it.