The Results

Abstract

As already indicated, a high turnout in the European elections was deemed imperative. How ‘high’ this turnout was supposed to be was never determined However, for purposes of analysis, it is not unreasonable to compare turnout in the direct elections with that in national or local elections in the Nine. This was the yardstick by which turnout, electoral behaviour and the results were evaluated by the participants. As the European elections were little more than a series of loosely co-ordinated, more or less simultaneous national elections, comparing them with national and local elections is analytically and comparatively apposite.l KeywordsNational ElectionLocal ElectionLabour PartyFederal ElectionDirect ElectionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.