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'?

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[lovingboth]

I remember the days when it was Ian Paisley + another Unionist + someone else, and certainly the two main Unionist parties ran more than one candidate: the DUP because Paisley had such a massive majority that they might get two and the UU because the DUP did!

[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!" :)