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How do EU Elections Work in the UK? – Brexit Explained
It looks like the UK will be taking part in the upcoming EU elections, to be held in May. So in this video we discuss how European Parliamentary elections work in the UK. The system is really quite different to the standard, first past the post system, used in almost all other UK elections.
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Brexit isn’t going quite to plan and the oven-ready Brexit deal may have not been properly baked, with polls suggesting that most Brits view it as a mistake and would rejoin the EU if given the chance. In this video, we take a look at potential solutions to Brexit and whether any of these solutions could help.
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1 – https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/freedom-of-movement-leavers-remainers/
2 – https://omnisis.co.uk/polls/sound-as-a-euro-one-in-four-brits-would-welcome-euro-as-part-of-eu-re-join-deal/
3 – https://omnisis.co.uk/polls/sound-as-a-euro-one-in-four-brits-would-welcome-euro-as-part-of-eu-re-join-deal/
4 – https://obr.uk/box/the-latest-evidence-on-the-impact-of-brexit-on-uk-trade/
5 – https://www.institute.global/insights/geopolitics-and-security/fixing-brexit-new-agenda-new-partnership-european-union
00:00 – Introduction
01:57 – Could the UK Rejoin?
02:34 – What About Norway Plus?
04:14 – So, What Else Can We Do?
07:13 – Sponsored Content
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In this video we explore Burnham’s promise to implement a more representative electoral system in the UK but will he actually succeed where countless other governments have failed – and actually change the voting system?
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History of Electoral Reform
Idox Group Electoral Reform: A Never Ending Story?
https://www.idoxgroup.com/insights/electoral-reform-a-never-ending-story/
BBC News Opposing Voting Reform ‘Selfish’ and ‘Immoral’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41775307
UK in a Changing Europe Electoral Reform: the State of Debate and Future Prospects
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/electoral-reform-the-state-of-debate-and-future-prospects/
Make Votes Matter 2024 Was Our Least Representative Election Ever
News Articles
Electoral Reform Society Prime Minister Announces Manifesto Pledge at Labour Conference
Prime Minister announces manifesto pledge and historic National Commission at Labour Conference
The Guardian Labour MPs Will Push Burnham to back Voting Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/25/andy-burnham-electoral-reform-first-past-the-post
Labour List Majority of MPs Back Review of Voting System
https://labourlist.org/2026/08/majority-labour-mps-review-voting-system/
Official Resources
Parliament UK Alex Sobel Amendment
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/stages/20676/amendments/10035247
Labour Andy Burnham Conference Speech Transcript
Polling
YouGov Should We Change Our Current British Voting System
https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/should-we-change-our-current-british-voting-system
More in Common September MRP Poll
0:00 Can Burnham Actually Ditch First-Past-the-Post?
8:06 Sponsor
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Nigel Farage said Andy Burnham’s comments about potentially rejoining the EU had given him “the biggest boost in [his] career”. We look at why — even if it seems counter-intuitive — another Brexit debate could actually hurt Farage.
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Farage responds to Burnham’s decision to reopen EU debate
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/01/burnhams-reopening-of-brexit-debate-is-biggest-boost-in-my-career-says-farage
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/30/andy-burnham-uk-could-go-all-the-way-rejoining-eu
British public sentiment on the EU
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54567-how-strong-is-uk-support-for-rejoining-the-european-union
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/half-want-to-rejoin-eu-and-backing-it-could-drive-up-labour-vote-megapoll-finds
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-politico-poll-britons-want-to-get-closer-to-the-eu-and-even-farages-voters-agree/
Economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-has-brexit-affected-business-investment-in-the-uk
Reform UK crises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckly020edl45o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
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Yesterday, Holborn and St. Pancras headed to the polls to select a new MP (replacing former MP Keir Starmer). With another leader on the ballot, the Green’s Zack Polanski, all eyes were on the race… one Polanski ultimately lost.
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@StartTheGreatRenaissance
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Eu corruption down to an artform to fleece the European…NO EU = WEALTH FOR THE MANY NOT FOR THE CORRUPT ELITE
@theweb3182
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
The "EU president" in the preview (Tajani) was so ignorant to confuse the EU foundation date and the NATO role in Europe. 🤣
Thanks to the US if today the continent is not invaded and stable
@JoeMarine
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Wait hold up??? I thought the EU was undemocratic??? Mind blown!!
@greatbriton8425
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
The EU is simply a free trade agreement. Meant to save money. Which has made itself, by unceasing incremental legislation, grow monstrously large, invasive and debilitating, like a cancer. It is at the moment, in my opinion, a steel hand in a velvet glove, itching to withdraw itself and become a dictatorship in time. By every means and influence possible, by hook and by crook, by media and powers, it is mangling the British people's economy and democracy and propagandising people's minds. It is a vampirous parasite, leeching the finances out of every nation without being able to balance its books. It is a dark force, dressed in light. It is power hungry, profligate and arrogant. I can imagine if Hitler had survived WWII, or any of his followers took up his torch of world domination, that they might have had a secret meeting in which they realised that military domination is hard, but financial domination is easy. Because that is exactly the way this free trade agreement has played out.
@hecade704
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
please make one on the Denmark and Sweden and how they do their EU elections
@ruairidhdavidson288
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
You can see the candidates on the ballot for EU elections.
@thegreatouv
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
I've voted by post and the ballot paper lists all the candidates for each part of the UK in order of how the individuals will get elected. Therefore, it isn't actually a "closed list" system. I could see and research not only the party but also the candidates, and see the order in which they would be elected. The D'Hont formula applies exactly as described in this video.
@Tomartyr
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Wow didn't know this channel thought it was unbiased.
I long ago accepted this channel as informative with a hefty Remainer bias.
@amirsrish
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
I would like to hear more about possible coalitions within the next EU parliament, as the anti-EU parties are not likely to take part in it and as a result the current coalition of the EPP and S&D will not suffice. What are could be the effect of joining ALDE or the greens (or both) to the next EU coalition?
@Maunakea0
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
I think you made a mistake. I got my (postal) ballot paper a few days ago and it seems like it is actually an open list.
@567secret
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
4:54 Mistake, should be ((total votes)/(available seats +1))+1
@567secret
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
2:57 isn't it a closed list because it's the party that decides the list itself as opposed to an open list where the electorate itself decides?
@Tsass0
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Can you please explain Mix Member Proportional (MMP) and compare it with STV systems
@EdricoftheWeald
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Pretty sure my local parish council has more political power than the European Parliament. Our council can actually make bylaws and run the transport system.
Mean in the European Parliament: "Yes Commissioner daddy UwU"
@jordanreeseyre
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
It's odd that the STV system reassigns excess votes from the initial winning party first instead of reassigning second preference for the lowest scoring party first.
@nienke7713
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Would love to see videos of how it works in other countries, I can help with The Netherlands if you're interested
@sevret313
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
One thing to keep in mind is that people tend to vote for bigger parties to avoid their vote to be wasted. So Labour and the Tories get an even more non-proportional representation.
@MooreMoDz
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Comment if your Voting out the MEPs who Voted for Article 13
@nialldowdall6141
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Can you do a video on EU elections in Ireland?
@IndepIndepWALT
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
you know i gotta give credit where it's due, you do a really good job at being un-bias, i can't tell you what your political affiliations is
@tommarch.4493
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
i think i will unsuscrib after Brexit will appens
@ataxman1
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Ireland
@chrishoggett1375
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
D’Hondt is pronounced ‘Dont’. The H is soft.
@Joseph-ig6sh
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Im disgust by the way this votes are done
@jeremy1548
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
As ever a nice video. Thanks.
I would only comment that the focus on the method of calculating the seats is not really illuminating though as to why this works (don't worry all the other media outlets do this as well). I would recommend Prof Helen Wilson's D'Hondt explanation from UCL.
This explains that the process you've described is a method of calculating the cost (in votes) for each of the seats so that a. The right number of seats are awarded to each party and, b. The total number of seats is also correct for that region.
The final important output in the last iteration of the D'Hondt method, which is never explicitly mentioned, is the actual cost in votes of each seat for that constituency given the votes cast. It would be interesting to compare those costs across the UK. I bet there is a huge variation. Hope that helps.
@subscribetomefornoreason9363
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Hey, would you say you're left or right leaning?
@tue4444
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Would be great to have a video on the EU elections in Denmark
@abdiali1042
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
the eu parliament has no power and only 10% of MEPs are British hence why we brits don't turnout for EU parliament elections…..holding this vote in may is a betrayal to majority who voted out in '16
@GorinRedspear
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
UK votes for the most obnoxious bunch of lazy no-goods they can find.
Then complain nobody takes their MEPs serious…
@szabados1980
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
I wonder how many europhobe brexiteers actually are aware that the EU has a parliament and MEPs are elected in a more democratic way than the big wigs in Westminster.
@pgreen9705
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
I would disagree that the UK EU election system favours small parties – if the smaller parties don't get as many votes as the two 'main' parties in the UK, they will never have an MEP, especially if there are several small parties in the same constituency, chasing a small number of allocated MEPs – as in your example, the Greens have little chance of winning because of the d'hont system. The UK manages to fiddle even PR to the advantage of the 'big two'.
@Medeasbiggestfan
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Worth mentioning that Gibraltar pretends to be part of South West England in these elections.
@davidprentice2015
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Do France next. ☺️
@Doorman271
January 3, 2024 at 8:09 pm
3:33 Who's Julie Elected?