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
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V. Herman, ‘Direct Elections to the European Parliament: Comparative Perspectives’, Common Market Law Review vol. xvi, (1979) pp. 209–26.
J. Lodge, ‘The European Elections of 1979: A Problem of Turnout’, Parliamentary Affairs vol.xxxii (1979) pp. 448–58. Not only is the notion of ‘electoral overkill’ too simple, but it implies less electoral resilience on the part of the English than Welsh and Scottish voters.
V. Herman, Parliaments of the World: A Reference Compendium (London: Macmillan, 1976) ch. 11.
D. Hearl, ‘Belgium: Two into Three Will Go’, in V. Herman and M. Hagger (eds), The Legislation of Direct Elections to the European Parliament (Farnborough: Gower, 1980) pp. 30–53, and L. Neels, ‘Preparations for Direct Elections in Belgium’, Common Market Law Review, vol. xv (1978) pp. 337–45.
W. Fraeys, ‘Les élections européennes de 1979: Analyse des résultats pour la Belgique’, Res Publica vol. xxi (1979) pp. 411–26.
J. Lodge, ‘The FRG: Modell Deutschland?’, in V. Herman and M. Hagger, op. cit., pp. 77–98.
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Lodge, J., Herman, V. (1982). The Results. In: Direct Elections to the European Parliament. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04454-2_11
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