[pp.int.general] everyone's current polls/surveys?

[Maxime Rouquet]

On 08/03/2012 03:07 PM, carlo von lynX wrote:
> hi, we are forming a berlin action crew that contacts international folks
> in our most multilingual neighborhoods and informs them of how they
> could be helping their respective pirate parties in their respective
> countries.. i'd like to bring up some survey percentages or recent
> election results to give them a rough idea of how we are performing
> internationally. i found it practically impossible to figure any out.
> could you help? i collected the ones i know at
> 
> 	http://piratepad.net/polls

We should be careful with percentages. For example, I see in this pad an
average percentage of everywhere PP-FR had candidates at the last
National Assembly election (0.8%). Considering some of our candidates
had no money at all to print ballots and made less than 0.1% of the
votes, making an average percentage is not representative at all.

If many candidates have printed some ballots to be put into the polling
stations, a majority of them did not have enough resources to print
advertisement and have it sent in the envelopes the State sends to all
citizens. Many of them did not print poster too...

The average percentage of the PP-FR candidates who had money to put into
their campaign is probably above 1.5%. Again, this could seem low in
comparison to other European countries, but it was actually a good
score. A lot of well-known parties were beaten locally by pirates.

There were 10 candidates at the last presidential election, each
supported by at least 500 French mayors. When our candidate had means to
make campaign, PP-FR has almost always beaten the candidates of the
parties of 4 of them, sometimes 5.

Some people consider the Pirate Party is already "the first of the small
parties" in France. Above us are PS (left), UMP (right), FN
(extreme-right), FG (extreme-left), Verts (Greens) and Modem (center).
Apart from these 6 political families, there is no independant political
party that is present in the National Assembly.

Some of our candidates have beaten Modem candidates, and when Greens
were not supported by PS they had results around 3 to 4% (their
candidate at the last presidential election made 2.31% of the votes).

Pirate Party's future is quite promising in France (provided we find
money to make campaign...), but you cannot understand it if you let
medias (and opponents) sum its results to "an average percentage of 0.80%".

Regards,

m