User talk:Cari.Firelight

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Elections by country
Hi,

Thanks for the comments. I wanted to delete this image of elections by country but I can't figure out how to proceed. Cari.Firelight (talk) 18:51, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi,

Your picture File:Number of elections by country.jpg has a number of errors:
 * New Zealand used FPTP until 1993, not 2004
 * France used PR during the Fourth Republic - in 1946, 1951, 1956 - and again in 1986

What is problematic is that it seeks to compare apples and oranges, for many factors are forgotten:

Term length: Fixed terms: Tradition: Specifics:
 * Australia and New Zealand have had 3-year-terms, as well as Sweden until 1991
 * France, Italy, the UK and Ireland have 5-year-terms, as well as Belgium since 2014
 * the others have 4-year terms
 * Norway and Belgium have fixed terms
 * Westminster Parliaments (UK, Canada, Australia, NZ) tend to practice dissolutions quite often (as well as Ireland)
 * Most other countries on the list only exceptionally call for early elections (Germany in 1972, 1982, 2005, Finland in 1953, 1961, 1971 and 1975)
 * France has a semi-presidential regime which makes it difficult to count the elections that mattered. Legislative elections are a walkover when held right after the presidential election (that is 1981, 1988, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017). Otherwise, both elections are key elections. Here's a summary (bold for presidential, italics for both): 1958, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017. Which gives 18, on top of the 3 legislative elections between 1946 and 1956, and the 2 constituent assemblies of 1946. Which gives 23.

Kahlores (talk) 15:11, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Please see the help pages on how to add footnotes & references
Please see H:FOOT. Peaceray (talk) 22:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Notice
Alexbrn (talk) 06:54, 22 January 2021 (UTC)