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No local election in Birmingham in 2019[edit]

This year, 2018, Birmingham elected the whole council, with councillors due to serve until 2022. Is somebody able to edit the map, adjust the totals (number of councils and councillors in 2015) and take Birmingham off the list? Thanks. --Wavehunter (talk) 19:57, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There are no elections for Bristol City Council in 2019 either. It has all up elections in 2020. 92.236.40.249 (talk) 21:20, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There has also been government reorganisation in Dorset - all nine councils are being abolished (County council and District Councils) to be replaced by two unitary authorities (one covering the Bournemouth/Poole urban area with the other covering the remaining predominantly rural area): https://futuredorset.co.uk/ Guyb123321 (talk) 12:33, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some changes to the text to reflect the above:

Taunton Deane and West Somerset districts are merging to form Somerset West and Taunton
Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury districts are merging to form West Suffolk
Suffolk Coastal and Waveney districts are merging to form East Suffolk
the 6 districts in Dorset and the unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole are merging to form two new unitary authorities of Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
there are no elections in:
- the districts of Gloucester and Stroud, and the unitary authorities of Bristol and Warrington (which switched to all-out elections from 2016)
- Harrogate, Huntingdonshire, Newcastle-under-Lyme or South Cambridgeshire (which switched to all-out elections from 2018)

John Womble (talk) 20:35, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox map[edit]

There are a few minor issues with the infobox map as it stands, which I don't have the vector graphical ability to remedy. I've notified the creator of the map of a couple, but they are away on a break, so if another user here could update the map, that'd be great. The map includes Bristol and Warrington in blue, when they aren't holding elections in 2019 (source). It also hasn't updated Dorset to consist of "Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole" and "Dorset" unitary authorities. Ralbegen (talk) 13:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And, as raised in the section above, there are no elections in Gloucester or Stroud city councils; or Harrogate, Huntingdonshire, Newcastle-under-Lyme or South Cambridgeshire, and there are merges in Suffolk and Somerset. Sorry to have missed those. Ralbegen (talk) 13:05, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Turnout[edit]

There does not seem to be any mention of turnout. Surely this is a significant factor in local elections.Geoff97 (talk) 09:35, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yellow Rows[edit]

Why have some of the councils got a yellow background? There should be an explanation after each table. Jonjonjohny (talk) 10:25, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Link to details[edit]

Hey

I have created the 2019 Preston City Council election article, only unlike predecessor UK articles I can't find a way to add a link next to the Preston line here: how do I do that? doktorb _words^deeds 23:24, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious tag removal[edit]

I saw a dubious tag on the eligibility criteria for electors. Checked the talk page and there was no mention of its addition, so added a citation from the gov.uk website and removed the tag. Tomtiger11 (talk) 19:30, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Brentwood[edit]

I’d be no help writing the (non-extent) article about Brentwood’s 21019 elections.

https://www.brentwood.gov.uk/index.php?cid=1617

But DID find that article from Brentwood Council’s site about it.

Hope that helps whoever does write the article!

Cuddy2977 (talk) 08:11, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Map description[edit]

Noticed a few of you have been making amendments to the label of the map. When I made the 2020 map, I just removed Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from the map entirely. Personally I think it would be better to have solely a map of England (cropped to remove blank areas) in the top infobox, then a second infobox with just a map of Northern Ireland (and NI political parties). This would avoid the need to exhaustively describe what the grey, "cream" and white areas represent. I can made a more exact map given a bit of time playing around with the .svg file, if that's what people would prefer. Maswimelleu (talk) 11:07, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to be that person, but...[edit]

Why does the infobox include UKIP, but not (for example) the GPEW, who are standing more candidates, have more members, have been polling higher in the leadup to this election, have been classed by Ofcom as a major political party of the UK, etc, etc...? Adam Dent (talk) 06:58, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I fixed it. Sorry, I don't have time at the moment to crop that image properly, but it's better as it is than not to be there at all. Adam Dent (talk) 07:34, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The infobox is generally based on the previous election(s) result (or the current state of play if there have been significant defections) rather than on polling or numbers of candidates or membership.

You've put the GPEW at 91 councillors and 0 councils. Both the DUP and Sinn Fein have more councillors (and the same number of councils). So if the GPEW is to be added to the infobox, they should be added after Sinn Fein. (And if we're going to a 9-person infobox, maybe we should then follow them with the UUP and SDLP.) Bondegezou (talk) 08:49, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

UUP and SDLP into the infobox[edit]

I added the parties of the UUP and SLDP into the infobox yet there are no portraits photos of Robin Swann and therefore I think if anyone has any then they should be uploaded Thanks

Smaller parties removed from infobox again?[edit]

So why have they all been removed again? The reason given is "look at 2015", but all I see in 2015 is UKIP with a place in the infobox despite having fewer seats than the greens following this election... CFPiras (talk) 21:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Given that "Independent and minor parties" contributed 662 seats (almost as many as LibDem), it seems important to know what those parties are in the context of pro/anti Brexit --gilgongo (talk) 09:30, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Most of that 662 increase was 606 independents, but each independent is, by definition, unrelated to any other. We know nothing about their Brexit positions. It's hard to know how to include them in an infobox.

Meanwhile, there are 5 Northern Irish parties that scored in double figures and this article is for the United Kingdom, so I think if we're covering the Greens, we need to cover DUP, SF, UUP, SDLP and APNI in the infobox. Bondegezou (talk) 09:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree there is an argument to include the Northern Irish parties too, but just arguing on the basis of the previous years' Wikipedia pages I'm saying there is a party (E&W Greens) with more seats than UKIP had when they were included in the 2013-2016 pages. CFPiras (talk) 11:49, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Swing[edit]

Why compare with 2018 when the 2018 figures are for different areas? Would it not be more appropriate to compare with the last election when the same areas were voting? Munci (talk) 08:05, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The percentage vote share figures given aren't actual vote shares. They are projected national equivalent vote shares, as used by numerous reliable sources, that adjust for which areas voted each year. Thus, they work fine for comparing year on year. Bondegezou (talk) 08:35, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]