European Parliament Election: May 23-26, 2019

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As a Commonwealth citizen, voting for the Brexit Party today.

If the EU is dumb enough to allow Canadians to blow up the EU then maybe we all should support the Brexit Party.

Actually, it's the UK's laws that entitle Commonwealth citizens to vote in UK elections, provided they are resident on a valid visa.

And at least in this case, it's a wash. I'm also a Commonwealth citizen and I cast my proxy vote today (or rather, had my mother-in-law cast it). Had to hold my nose to vote Lib Dem, but Labour just isn't pushing hard enough to kill off Brexit. Fingers crossed it works!

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As a Commonwealth citizen, voting for the Brexit Party today.

If the EU is dumb enough to allow Canadians to blow up the EU then maybe we all should support the Brexit Party.

Actually, it's the UK's laws that entitle Commonwealth citizens to vote in UK elections, provided they are resident on a valid visa.

And at least in this case, it's a wash. I cast my proxy vote today (or rather, had my mother-in-law cast it). Had to hold my nose to vote Lib Dem, but Labour just isn't pushing hard enough to kill off Brexit. Fingers crossed it works!

Does this include general elections, too?

Yes. Inexcusably, it's only EU citizens who are not allowed to vote in GE's in the UK, no matter what. This leads to the preposterous situation where EU citizens who have been resident in the UK for decades can't vote for their MPs while Canadians in the UK on a 1 year student visa can.

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As a Commonwealth citizen, voting for the Brexit Party today.

Wait, Commonwealth citizens can vote in EU elections? I thought that was reserved to British and EU citizens?

Commonwealth Citizens with UK long-term residence can vote in elections. I've lived here for years.

Funnily enough UK citizens living in a Commonwealth country cannot vote. My partner is a UK citizen (dual citizen), but can't vote in British elections (then again, considering she was born in Canada, and never lived in the UK, which constituency would she even vote in?). She has however used her UK passport as ID in a Canadian election though!

I think there are exceptions to this. UK citizens who had emigrated from the country <15 years prior were allowed to vote in the 2016 Brexit referendum, iirc.

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I didn't realise this was a thread about the 2016 US presidential election?

Or friggin' nutcase conspiracy theories!

Reflect on your choices, Bigskybob.

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Which ideologies are doing well so far?

Is that really all you care about?

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Results for my local borough of Havering

Wow. Crazy to see the Brexit Party doing that well in any place called 'London', even if it is Havering.

Quite fascinated to find out my borough's results (Elmbridge). Just how low can the Tories go in one of their staunchest areas?