Talk:2019 Ukrainian presidential election

Why should we inform people what Saakashvili thinks about the issues
Why should we inform people what Saakashvili thinks about the issues (in this article)? He can not compete in the elections because he is no longer a citizen of Ukraine and if he still was Opinion polling for the Ukrainian presidential election, 2019 shows he does not have support for such a candidacy since February 2017 (see also here).... —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  21:19, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I removed Saakashvili from this article because a Ukrainian presidential candidate should have his residence in Ukraine for the past ten years prior to election day; Saakashvili did not reside in Ukraine until 2015 (see this edit for references or this New York Times article; besides he was President of Georgia from 20 January 2008 until 17 November 2013 (so he lived there and thus not in Ukraine in 2009, 2010 etc....). —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  21:06, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

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I will not be regularly updating this Wikipedia article anymore....
As some of you have noticed 😁, I have been regularly updating this Wikipedia article the last weeks.... But due to some positive developments in my life 🙂 I will not be regularly updating this Wikipedia article anymore.... However if you want to follow the latest developments in the election you can check them out this newsfeed by Ukrayinska Pravda. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  22:22, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

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Candidates and TV adds
I do not see any information about this in the Wikipedia article about the 2017 French presidential election..... so I assume that information like this should not be in a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia is not an almanac. But here you can find information about how much the candidates spend on TV adds and whose ones are most shown. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  19:45, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually.... after reading WP:INDISCRIMINATE I think that the information given in the link above can be in the article... But since before election date (when I wrote this was) more than 1 week the numbers might become different. Better wait until we have updated information.... —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  19:59, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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Petro Poroshenko color
Petro Poroshenko is registered as independent, but shown here as being backed with his own Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity". Could we maybe use its color? Would be easier for the maps results.--Aréat (talk) 15:19, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Completely agree. Every candidate has his/her own very recognizable color, which is strongly associated with him/her and used everywhere to represent him/her, from political ads to poll charts. For Poroshenko it is dark red, for Tymoshenko it is blue, for Zelensky it is light green, for Hrytsenko it is yellow, and so on. Dark red is strongly associated with Poroshenko, so it 00should be used for him instead of grey. -- Tohaomg Tohaomg  (talk) 15:32, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, the color palette was pretty clear in the campaign, which make me wonder who did the poll diagram and choose otherwise. Anyways, I made the change, as to have it for tomorrow. If there's eventually more different opinion on it, though, it can be quickly reversed.--Aréat (talk) 09:26, 30 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Completely disagree. Petro Poroshenko Bloc is red, independent is light gray, if Petro Poroshenko ran under his party he would have a red color, but he is running as an independent candidate, independents run under a gray color. His party is endorsing him, yes, but that doesn’t mean he has red for his color. --Congressional Man (talk) 15:48, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * He heavily used red in his political campaign, besides, red will stand for him on the map of results - File:Результати Виборів Президента України 2019 за округами.svg. So far there are two voices in favour of using red instead of gray against your one, so I put it back. -- Tohaomg Tohaomg  (talk) 16:55, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Tohaomg (talk) 18:10, 30 March 2019 (UTC) No, don’t put it back, They are independents so their main color is gray, for election maps you can use red and put Poroshenko’s name next to the color on the map, and Boyko can be used as blue, if they win any oblasts. Zelensky and Tymoshenko should have the colors of their party not campaign.

I support this. --Panam2014 (talk) 12:55, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Volodymyr Zelensky color
Hi

His color is green, not blue. Blue is the color of the series. --Panam2014 (talk) 10:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Invalid votes
If Ukrain indeed consider blank votes as valid ones, it would mean that we could represent them like in Spanish election (for example), which would mean calculating the percentages accordingly. We do so for several countries already. Whether blank votes are valid or not, it shouldn't change the turnout, however.--Aréat (talk) 17:20, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * +1. No one has ever considered that Yanukovych had been elected in 2010 with 51.8% of votes. Cheep (talk) 17:46, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The CVK lists them as simply "invalid", which isn't necessarily the same as blank ones. However, we should present results consistently, and invalid votes are not usually considered when calculating candidate percentages. Number   5  7  21:19, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It is the same system in Spain. Until 2010 in Ukraine, a "against all" ballot also existed and was taken into account in calculating candidate percentages. No electoral system is universal. Cheep (talk) 09:16, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * In 2019 election, the total percentage of candidates is 100% according to CVK?--Panam2014 (talk) 11:40, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * With invalid votes. Cheep (talk) 13:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It's not the same system as Spain, as in Spain invalid and blank votes are treated differently – blank votes are effectively an "against all" option (see Citizens for Blank Votes). And "Against all" is usually included when calculating candidate percentages. Number   5  7  13:04, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Blank votes are not treated as an "against all" option everywhere (see France, where they are not taken into account in calculating candidate percentages). And in several countries invalid votes are also considered when calculating candidate percentages. So it depends on the electoral system. In any case, the idea of changing the results of the Ukrainian elections as you did has never been raised previously. Cheep (talk) 15:10, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I didn't say they were treated as an against all option everywhere (they're not in the UK either). Number   5  7  15:57, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

No reason to change the results, for example, Zelensky have won 30.24, not 30.61. --Panam2014 (talk) 10:53, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * He received 30.24% of all votes cast, 30.61% of the valid vote. The latter is what is usually used when giving election results. 11:06, 13 April 2019 (UTC) Number  5  7

an opinion on this issue? Cheep (talk) 11:45, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Any official source said that he had received 30.61%. It is an WP:OR until the Constitutional Court or the Electoral Commission will state that he have received 30.61. --Panam2014 (talk) 13:53, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * According to cvk.gov.ua Zelenskyi won with 30.24. Please revert results like in Ukrainian wiki. 1.18 % must be in "invalid votes", not — . Динамо-фан (talk) 18:30, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Basic calculations (like working out percentages) are not WP:OR – see WP:CALC. Many election articles rely on editors making these types of calculations due to electoral commissions not publishing overall results, or on some occasions, getting their sums wrong (even if invalid votes are taken into account, the CVK website has the wrong percentage for 18 candidates!). Number   5  7  18:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

It is not our role to do calculation, if official sources wrote 30.24, we should respect it. --Panam2014 (talk) 19:50, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It is, if we see that the calculation is not done according to normal standards. And as I said, calculations are done on many articles where it's been needed to get the full/correct results. The results published by the CVK are wrong for nearly half the candidates even on the basis that they've calculated them, I assume because their software doesn't do rounding correctly (there was another election recently where there was a similar problem, and we showed the correct percentages there). Number   5  7  20:05, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The normal standard is here the Ukrainian standard. The rest is an OR. It is the same for the others articles. If it is a question of software, we should wait the paper results or the results issued by CC. --Panam2014 (talk) 22:12, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Meanwhile, it is clear that the position of Number 57 on this issue is very isolated. I propose to restore the old version. Cheep (talk) 22:51, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Exceptionally dirty campaign
I hope the exceptionally dirty campaign from the side of Poroshenko will be covered. Staszek Lem (talk) 22:42, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

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Percentages in results table
I saw that the infobox listed Zelenskyy as receiving 74.96% and Poroshenko 25.04% (and the lede section said that Zelenskyy received 75%). This calculation adds up to 100% and seems to be based only on valid votes, which is not consistent with how these results are reported everywhere else (e.g. the Central Election Commission that the article itself cites has 73.22% and 24.45% - but also more sources here - basically everywhere reports Zelenskyy's result as ~73%, and the Ukrainian Wikipedia article also does this).

I edited the infobox and lede section, but I'm seeing that the table in the Results section seems to automatically calculate the percentage based on valid votes only, using Template:Election results. I'm unsure how to change this, and am wondering if anyone is more familiar with this template?

Thank you! Helpful Cat (talk) 21:26, 9 June 2024 (UTC)