Template:Australian Politics Suburb/doc

Purpose
This template is intended to replace manual boxes which have appeared in a number of suburb and town articles that are part of various Australian city projects and Wikiproject Australian Places. Manual boxes are not only difficult to update and keep updated, but are difficult to locate as they are not linked to anything else on the Wikipedia project.

This box is an overview aimed at suburb/town article readers and is not intended to be used for electorates. Please consult Wikiproject Australian Politics for what is appropriate for such articles.

Use
This template can display the votes in one of two ways - normal mode and short mode.
 * Normal mode should be used at most times. It presents clearly and gives a snapshot view of the state of the parties in a suburb.
 * Short mode should be used only when many results (i.e. over 3 or 4) need to be displayed, and where normal mode obscures patterns or trends.

Help
Notes
 * The template does not sort parties, so it is advisable that party1/percent1 is the party with the highest votes, and so on down to party5/percent5. Only the first two are compulsory, so if 3-5 are left blank, they simply will not display.
 * Although there may be many candidates or parties in an election, the purpose of this box is to paint a picture of the suburb to readers - those more interested in the politics can click on the electorate links provided in Infobox Australian place or in the prose.
 * Use of the short version requires knowledge of tables. An example is provided below.

This appears as:

For other examples please see the talk page.