Northern Ireland Euro elections..

[lovingboth]

.. have long been done by STV because the government wouldn't like the results if they used an inferior system.

But looking at the BBC page on the results (so far - they're still redistributing votes) I am struck by the fact that no party has more than one candidate. STV doesn't penalise you for having more, so why is everyone saying, in effect, 'there is no way we can get more than one MEP'?

Comments

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

"we can't let those bastards have the only candidate who's going to lose! we want a candidate who's going to lose too!" :)