Chris Hanretty

'elections' Category

• Jun

  21

  2009

  How the 2001 result would have been with the current electoral law

  After our article on Italian electoral reform was published, I was asked how the results of the Italian election of 2001 would have turned out if the current electoral system had been used. Here’s my very rough answer, which ignores the complexities (too many to be counted) of the ‘porcata’.

  posted in elections, electoral reform, italy by Chris

• Apr

  22

  2009

  EUProfiler launched

  Many friends of mine have been working on www.euprofiler.eu, and its wonderful to see their hard work come to fruition.
  The fascinating thing about the site is that it’ll tell you whichEuropean party comes closest to your positions, throughout all of Europe. I came closest to the Pirate Bay, then the Croatian Social Liberal Party. Disregarding [...]

  posted in elections, eu, eui by Chris

• Dec

  06

  2006

  Invented story leads to real investigation

  About two weeks ago, Enrico Deaglio alleged that the centre-right had attempted to steal the 2006 election by counting blank and invalid ballots as votes for the centre-right. Deaglio’s argument didn’t add up: the centre-right only had control over the projections at the Ministry of the Interior; the real votes were summed from the sub-totals [...]

  posted in deaglio, elections, electoral, italy by Chris

• May

  31

  2006

  Administrative elections, 28th – 29th May

  I waited for the paper editions of Repubblica and the Corriere della Sera to check out the results of the administrative elections held over the weekend. Headline results are this: in the five major contests, the centre-right won two (presidency of the Sicilian region retained by Toto Cuffaro; Letizia Moratti becomes mayor of Milan), the [...]

  posted in elections, italy by Chris