Talk:Elections by country

New content
List of election results has been restuctured and moved to Elections by country. For each de jure and de facto soverign state and dependent territories an article on elections in that entity has been included and - when available - an article on the last elections in that entity. Previous election results - when available - can be found at the main article on elections in that entity. These pages include also links to information on politics in general and political parties in that entity. An Electoral calendar has been added. You are friendly requested to add information on elections when logical also to Elections by country and the Electoral calendar. Please add new elections also in the template Politics .. (only showing the year). The List of political parties has been restructured too. The parties are now listed in the individual country pages and a complete list is listed in the Index of political parties. You are friendly requested to list new parties you add both in the list of that country as well in the index of political parties. I hope this helps Wikipedia to be a more complete encyclopedia on politics. -Gangulf 10:30, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Original talk page of List of election results
Request: I made a category tree voor elections. It starts with the category Elections. There you can find the sub-category Election results and the articles on lemmas linked to elections. The sub-category Election results doesn't link to any article, but links to sub-categories per country, named e.g. Elections in the Netherlands. Everybody who adds a election result to this list is requested to add the category "Elections in ..." in that page. Thanks. Gangulf 09:27, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

This list is growing to long. I suggest only to list a page with the list of election results and the last results. I will start the work. Gangulf 21:23, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * It's not too long at all. For many countries, it doesn't make much sense to create individual "Elections in &lt;country&gt;" if they'll only have a few elections listed. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   21:31, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The page has been restructured. For each country/dependent territory there is now an overview article, so the list is now alphabetical, linking to these overview articles and to the last elections in that entity - when available. Gangulf 10:09, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC) - ''' HAPPY ASH WEDNESDAY TODAY MARCH 1, 2006. ''' It's 19:55 on Wed March 1, 2006 in Santiago(City NE of Cordon),Isabela,Philippines. My site is at http://www.michaelmanalolazo.go.cc Just Surfing. Thanks.

Re-edit
The page has been completely re-edited. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 17:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

"Electoral Geography"
Hello, can you please add "Electoral Geography" website to the external links section? I really think this website will be useful for everybody interested in elections.

http://www.electoralgeography.com/en/index.html

New Discussion
A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 13:32, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

new column?
How about a link to the most recent (over) and/or upcoming election in each territory for easier navigation.Lihaas (talk) 09:29, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * never nmind, seems like consensus then.Lihaas (talk) 13:42, 28 December 2010 (UTC)).

Wrong section
Rebublic of China is located in the "T" section. Fix please?71.180.171.44 (talk) 14:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Royal elections in Poland
Why in table in the bottom of the page there's no year with royal elections in Poland? If there are date with papal elections, there should be also listed elections in Poland form 1573 to 1764. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KalosKagathos (talk • contribs) 16:12, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Head of government Suggestion
There is a column needed for head of gov't. For example, while Canada & UK head of state is a monarchy, the head of government (prime minister) is chosen indirectly (by popular vote [usually by plurality] + some other details)--JimWae (talk) 22:47, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I've added it.&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  01:19, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

UK states
I messed up and didn't include an edit summary for this rather major change, so I'll explain here: I removed the separate entries for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, on the theory that in no other instance do we include constituent states. I didn't see why we should we should list these when we don't list, for instance, the American states or Canadian provinces.&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  01:22, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Commonwealth Heads of State
While I do understand in a pragmatic sense that it is the same person (as I agreed with you in my edit summary and in your talk page), my point is in legally speaking these are separate offices. Technically speaking (being the matter of how the law interprets it), the Head of State of the United Kingdom (i.e. the Monarch of the United Kingdom), is considered a separate political office from the Head of State of Australia (i.e. Monarch of Australia), the Head of State of Canada (i.e. the Monarch of Canada), and the other Commonwealth realms. So to answer your question, no I don't think its a coincidence, but I do think legally speaking, its a person that holds 16 different positions as a Head of State, that isn't just collectively called "Monarch of the United Kingdom".

Not saying its not the same person. And if the list column was of current Head of States, sure, thats just a common name issue, of which, "of the United Kingdom," would be the most recognizable. However, considering this is a list of just what the office of the Head of State is (being that the list itself just defines things as "President," or "Monarchy," I really fail to see the merits as to why those countries Heads of States are being defined as "Monarch of the United Kingdom," when in a legal sense its very wrong, and in a practical sense, simply stating "Monarchy" (like the other sovereign states list here) takes nothing away from the definition of what the office of that Head of State is (being a Monarch).

However, in the spirit of compromise, perhaps we could add a  after the Monarchy which explains that these offices are held by one person? Leventio (talk) 08:00, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * You're proposing making this article contain less information based on a pedantic, nit-picking distinction that's of little importance to anyone. The point of this article is so that somebody can look at a given nation and see, at a glance, how the head of state is determined. In the United States, the head of state is elected by an electoral college. In Canada, the head of state is whomever happens to be the King or Queen of the United Kingdom. If you want to put a notetag explaining that the offices are in some vague metaphysical sense separate, fine, but the more informative and de facto accurate description should be in the main cell.&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  10:02, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * P.S. Is it just that it says "of the United Kingdom" that bothers you? What if we said "Monarch of the Commonwealth of Nations"? I could live with that.&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  10:06, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * P.P.S. Okay, I looked it up and the official title is Head of the Commonwealth. So I've set it to that instead. Will that address your concerns?&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  10:11, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I mean, to be frank, the initial change to "Monarchy," was made as I thought the detailed explanation seemingly implied that these states are also overseas dependencies (for the most part, the article seemingly only expands on the Monarchy or President of, when its a dependent territory). That said, my main issue is that I think the article should be reflecting the "legal" reality in how these offices operate (in that if we need to use an expanded detail, the name in the cell should be the actual title of the office, as opposed to their name/one of the legal titles they hold in another country). Its sort of why I'd personally preferred just Monarchy (we still retain the information in the cell that its all held by Elizabeth, and we avoid the aforementioned issues of technicalities).


 * With regards to "Head of Commonwealth," I'd honestly have a similar sticking point in theory (though honestly I have a lot less opposition towards using it, as it addresses the thing that first motivated the edit), but my reservation for it again has to do with the "legal reality,"(acting in their capacity as a "Head of Commonwealth," isn't technically them acting as a head of state, as that office is just the office that heads The Commonwealth organization). That said, thats admittingly supernitpicky, so I'm not actually opposed to the your proposal to use "of the Commonwealth," just iterating the reservations I have for it. Leventio (talk) 16:44, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Head of the Commonwealth does not refer to the sovereign acting in their capacity as head of state of any commonwealth realm or British overseas territory. The commonwealth realms have their own monarchy as they have their own Parliamentary sovereignty, and British overseas territories remain under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom and its monarch. David8302 (talk) 04:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

"Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referenda/Overview of results" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Elections_and_Referenda/Overview_of_results&redirect=no Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referenda/Overview of results] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 22:40, 5 March 2024 (UTC)