Er, no. Particularly if you include, say, Thatcher in that category. And as the council elections show, you can get BNP winners with first past the post too.
The system picked for these elections (in England, Wales and Scotland) was chosen to increase the power of the parties (and give the Returning Officer an easy job) and not to be 'PR'.
If the votes had been level across the regions, in a first past the post election we'd have three Labour MEPs, six SNP and all the rest would be Tories. That certainly keeps out the BNP (and indeed UKIP) but cannot in any sense be said to reflect the wishes of the electorate.
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The system picked for these elections (in England, Wales and Scotland) was chosen to increase the power of the parties (and give the Returning Officer an easy job) and not to be 'PR'.
If the votes had been level across the regions, in a first past the post election we'd have three Labour MEPs, six SNP and all the rest would be Tories. That certainly keeps out the BNP (and indeed UKIP) but cannot in any sense be said to reflect the wishes of the electorate.