Re: The Rest of the World Re: Winner Take All Re: discrepancy between Presidential polls

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 19:59 30-10-00 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:

>Well, it is my understanding that the Green Party is a fringe party even in
>European countries like Germany.

I did some digging on that. Green parties appear hold on average 7% of the 
seats in the various European parliaments, but this varies greatly. In 
Ireland it appears to be only 1.2%, in Germany and The Netherlands ~7%, 
while in Belgium they have as much as 14.4%.

Note however that the real representation is quite a bit larger, because 
European countries tend to have several environmentalist parties, ranging 
from moderate Social Democrats to far-left radical Socialist and Communist 
parties. To give you some idea of the sheer size: in the European Assembly, 
the "Socialist Group" and the "Group of the Unified European Left" together 
hold 41.9% of the seats.


Jeroen

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