Talk:2024 national electoral calendar

Date
When there's an election with a date that is unsourced but a working link to a sourced page, rather than removing it entirely, please just click on the link to the page, copy the source present there, and paste it there. It will be way better in terms of contributing to the content of the page, and avoid edit wars. Cordially. Aréat (talk) 22:44, 21 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @Aréat There are no references for elections in Mexico, South Korea, Georgia and Palau on their individual pages. There is also no date mentioned for these elections in IFES Election Guide, so I have moved them to section "Unknown date". Dhruv edits (talk) 03:31, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * When there's no date on their own pages, sure. But please don't do it when there's one. I think we can all agree on this method to avoid edit wars. Thanks again for your work on maintaining the page.--Aréat (talk) 08:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

2024 national electoral calendar
Place Brazil in the month of October, elections for mayors will take place in the state capitals. Navauny (talk) 14:51, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Municipal elections belong at 2024 local electoral calendar‎, where they are already listed. --Finngall talk  23:07, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

EU Elections
Shoouldn't 2024 European Parliament election be on the list? Akerbeltz (talk) 12:18, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


 * It isn’t on the list because it’s not considered a “national” election, but a “supranational” one. So it’s listed on the 2024 supranational electoral calendar instead, together with the 2024 United Nations Security Council election.
 * I personally think this is the wrong approach. These two elections have nothing in common. The European Parliament election is a direct parliamentary election with millions of voters across 27 countries with different parties and electoral systems. It basically functions as 27 simultaneous national elections. The UN Security Council election is simply a vote in the UN General Assembly, not any different than countless other votes in countless other international organizations. Honestly, I would delete the supranational electoral calendar and include the European election in this article instead. Brainiac242 (talk) 20:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm not necessarily against it. Just, that would mean also including the election to the Central American Parliament, of which members directly elect representatives in their own national elections, and they're at different dates. That's many election pages that, as far as I know, don't even exist.--Aréat (talk) 21:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Elections to the Central American Parliament are usually held on the same day as general elections, and are included in the same articles. There’s no reason we can’t write, for example:
 * 25 June: Guatemala, President (1st round), Parliament and Central American Parliament
 * This election, by the way, isn’t listed on any electoral calendar, because no one has bothered to create the article 2023 supranational electoral calendar. Brainiac242 (talk) 00:34, 6 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hm. Thanks for the explanation but given the paucity of supranational elections (there's nothing until you hit 2019 supranational electoral calendar then 2017 supranational electoral calendar, 2016 supranational electoral calendar (the only busy-ish page) and so on in fits and starts) and the fact that the national electoral calendar pages aren't huge as they are, it would make more sense to just add a section, either above or below Indirect elections for supranational elections. I didn't even know that page existed and for a reader wanting to check up on elections above the local level, it would be a lot more convenient to have these few supranational elections in a section on the 'main' page. I mean, we don't even have a link in a See Also. Akerbeltz (talk) 09:36, 6 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Why add them in a separate section? Why not just add the direct elections (European Parliament, Central American Parliament) to the main (monthly) sections? As I explained above, elections to the Central American Parliament are usually held on the same day as general elections, and are included in the same articles. If we added a separate section for supranational elections, we would have to list these articles twice. It’d be like having a section for presidential elections and another for parliamentary elections, and listing general elections in both. Brainiac242 (talk) 12:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm ok with adding them to the main section too. I just offered that as a suggestion if there was a strong objection to just having them in the main body. Akerbeltz (talk) 12:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * It’s been over a week since I added the elections to the European Parliament and a few days since I added the elections to the Central American Parliament, and there have been no complaints. Are you both OK with deleting the 2024 supranational electoral calendar and repeating this in previous years? Brainiac242 (talk) 04:32, 17 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I think you're right about this. I noticed there's still a lot of such pages on the Template:Electoral calendar navigation, though. Ideally, if you have the time, they should all be fused in the respective national election page, and removed from the template. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 04:53, 17 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that’s what I meant with “repeating this in previous years”. Once this merge is complete, I’ll start with the other ones. Brainiac242 (talk) 03:15, 18 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Fine with me :) Akerbeltz (talk) 09:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

There was consensus here to delete the 2024 supranational electoral calendar after including the actual supranational elections (European Parliament, Central American Parliament) in this article. The only election listed in the supranational calendar that wasn’t moved here, isn’t really a supranational election, but (as I said above) “simply a vote in the UN General Assembly, not any different than countless other votes in countless other international organizations”. Please, discuss your reasons to oppose the deletion here. Brainiac242 (talk) 03:15, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion for elections with multiple phases
Where there are multiple phases to an election and the number of the phases are known, entry for each phase should be prefixed by the syntax - "(Phase X of N)", where X is the phase number and N is the total number of phases, so that the reader could know where they can stop scrolling when they are looking for a particular election. MrMarshMan (talk) 11:22, 31 May 2024 (UTC)