PREDICTION FOR UK MEPS USING YOU GOV POLLING

Now I will be the first to admit that when you ask someone on how you are going to do at something, if you have a vested interest you will put a rose tinted view on things. So the piece below is taken from the UKIP DAILY and obviously is going to be pro UKIP. Now if you have an alternative view and would like me to post your predictions using your own methodology then I would gladly post it for you.

Below is the article, having used a breakdown I posted on Sunday YOUGOV EURO POLL

Be glad of your thoughts

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YouGov published a Euro Election poll over the weekend where they broke the results down by area of the country. These areas did not correspond exactly with the regions, they were coarser, but the results can be used to attempt to predict the number of MEPs that may be returned in each region.
I have a workbook which calculates the distribution of seats based on the d’Hondt system used in the European Elections. The results of my analysis of the YouGov poll is shown below – the regions are grouped by the areas that YouGov used, the outline results of their poll more conveniently reviewed on the UK General Election 2015 Site. Hence, the predicted percentages for some regions will be identical – clearly, the actual results will vary more between regions, but it’s the best data we have at present.

What conclusions can be drawn from this? For a start, it will be a close run thing in SW England and SE England where Conservatives and Labour are polling the same on 22%. They each could get 1 or 2 seats, depending on which one pushes slightly ahead of the other, and in SW England that outcome may affect whether UKIP gets 2 or 3 seats. Will Gawain Towler get a MEP job in Brussels or not?
The result in NW England is surprising, returning 4 MEPs, which matches that of the SE Region, which has 10 slots instead of the North West’s 8. This means that Shneur Odze gets a job in Brussels, as well as Paul Nuttall, Louise Bours and Steven Woolfe.
The UKIP poll for the North of England, 35%, equalling the South of England, the two most pro-UKIP regions, shows that UKIP’s strategy of working hard to win over the Labour voter in the north is working, where UKIP is ahead of Labour on 33%.
The Liberal Democrats will get slaughtered, of course. They presently have 12 MEPs, and will be reduced to 4 – so much for Nick Clegg’s committing his party to the EU. The Greens will be reduced from 2 to 1 MEP, whilst the SNP will maintain their 2.
History tells us that our poll ratings climb as the election approaches, and there is some evidence that UKIP voters are more likely to vote in low turnout polls. At the moment UKIP is in the lead (based on the poll) with at least 28 MEPs, but it could go higher. Watch this space.