Euro-elections - were they on PR?

I have just looked at the results broken down by region.

The system was supposed to allocate seats by the proportion of votes cast. It doesn't, within the regions.

A typical result, with three seats, could be something like:

Party x - 130,000 votes

Party y - 120,000 votes

Party z - 70,000 votes

party next - 65,000 votes

The first three parties each elect one MEP, but the remaining parties, even though between, if there are seven or eight, they collectively receive 100,000 votes, have not MEP.

Te corollary is that unless there is some sort of additional national top up of seats, an additional list, in my example party next could call itself very unlucky, and party x also. You could think of situations where the parties electing MEPs could actually have a minority, i.e. less than 50% of total votes cast in that region.

I can understand major parties encouraging a multiplicity of small parties - it increases their own chances. I am afraid that Blair has led us into another nonsense.