ELECTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT-ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF SINGLE- MEMBER DISTRICTS Cover Image

WYBORY DO PARLAMENTU EUROPEJSKIEGO 2014- ANALIZA W KONTEKŚCIE PROBLEMATYKI JEDMOMANDATOWYCH OKRĘGÓW WYBORCZYCH
ELECTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT-ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF SINGLE- MEMBER DISTRICTS

Author(s): Piotr L. Wilczyński
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Applied Geography, Electoral systems, Geopolitics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
Keywords: electoral geography; elections; European Parliament; electoral systems; democracy; Poland 2014; single-member districts;

Summary/Abstract: European Parliament elections and their results in Poland are main subject of this paper. Current need of electoral results analysis was undertook because there are two next elections incoming this and next year in Poland: local and parliamentary. On basis of this research political parties could work on theirs strategy before those elections. Moreover, in easy manner, due to numerous maps and tables, every citizen might get familiar with electoral geography, which has become very dynamic recently and thus very interesting. This paper shows areas of main parties supporters domination in local and regional scale. Furthermore, it takes into consideration time scale 2011-2014, what allows comparative study of elections results. Second part of this paper is about single-mandate constituencies as an alternative for current, criticized electoral system in Poland. There are shown 51 projected constituencies for European Parliament mandates from Poland, and 460 constituencies for Polish parliamentary elections as well as simulations of all results in them.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 85-104
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish