Wikipedia:2024 UK general election editathon

About
This page contains resources and links to help participants in the workshop to create and edit pages related to the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Predicting results
Labour: 410 seats Conservative: 131 seats Liberal Democrat: 61 seats Reform UK: 13 seats Scottish National Party: 10 seats Other: 25

Source: Ipsos for BBC/ITV News/Sky News

List of participants
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 * Edwardx (talk) 13:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Eva.pascoe (talk) 14:55, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thissmileyface (talk) 13:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Keshinikendell (talk) 20:46, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Martina091 (talk) 20:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * BLGreenaway (talk) 21:00, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 14yearsl8r (talk) 21:37, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Philafrenzy (talk) 22:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Resources and links
Boundary changes mean most seats have new electoral demographics
 * The Guardian "UK general election: find your new constituency – and see how it would have voted in 2019"
 * Rising stars who could play a big part in a Labour government

Betting odds:
 * Betfair Constituencies A-C, D-K, L-R, S-Z

Wikipedia list articles give you some idea of who new MPs might be:
 * Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election
 * 2024 United Kingdom general election in London

Basic Wikipedia Page Structure:


 * (Short summary)
 * Early Life
 * Career
 * Personal Life
 * References - automatically generated when you add ciations

Articles to improve

 * Draft:Rachel Blake (politician) (NOT Rachel Blake (politician)), Labour candidate for Cities of London and Westminster. Tory since its formation in 1950; Nickie Aiken retiring. Split was 40/31/27 Tory/Labour/LibDem last time, but LibDem was prominent Chuka Umunna. Normally Labour clear second. Should be Labour in 2024

Articles to be created
We should create these articles in DRAFT space, as they are only candidates, and not deemed notable (in Wikipedia terms) until elected. If we create them straight away in mainspace, they are liable to be deleted.

London

 * Draft:Nesil Caliskan (NOT Nesil Caliskan), Labour candidate for Barking. Labour since its formation in 1945; Margaret Hodge retiring.
 * Margaret Mullane, Labour candidate for Dagenham and Rainham. Labour in 2019, but very marginal. Should be safe now.
 * Sarah Sackman, Labour candidate for Finchley and Golders Green. Tory last time, very likely Labour in 2024.
 * Draft:Mark Brooks (politician) (NOT Mark Brooks (politician)), Tory candidate for Bexleyheath and Crayford. Tory last time, 60%/30% Tory/Labour vote split.
 * Draft:Deirdre Costigan (NOT Deirdre Costigan), Labour candidate for Ealing Southall. Labour since its formation in 1983; Virendra Sharma retiring.
 * Draft:Shama Tatler (NOT Shama Tatler), Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green. Tory last time (Iain Duncan Smith) 48.5/45.9 Tory/Labour. Very likely Labour in 2024, unless the deselected Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen (now standing as an independent) splits the vote.
 * Draft:Natasha Irons (politician) (NOT Natasha Irons (politician)), Labour candidate for Croydon East. New constituency; would have been 48/41% Labour/Tory last time. Labour will win.
 * --14yearsl8r (talk) 21:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC) is editing Draft:Primesh Patel (NOT Primesh Patel), Labour candidate for Harrow East. Tory since 2010 (Bob Blackman), 54.6/37.4 Tory/Labour. Likely Labour this time.
 * Joe Powell (politician), Labour candidate for Kensington and Bayswater. Very tight in 2017 (Labour majority of 20) and 2019 (Tory majority of 150). Likely Labour this time, but the former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad is standing as an independent and could split the vote.

Others

 * Draft:Lucy Rigby, not Lucy Rigby, Labour candidate for Northampton North.
 * Mike Tapp is the prospective Labour Party candidate for Dover and Deal.
 * Draft:Jess Brown-Fuller (not Jess Brown-Fuller) is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Chichester

Articles created on 4/5 July

 * Margaret Mullane
 * Sarah Sackman
 * Joe Powell (politician)
 * Lucy Rigby
 * Mike Tapp
 * Bayo Alaba
 * Luke Myer
 * Daniel Francis (politician)
 * Natasha Irons (politician)
 * Lorraine Beavers
 * David Burton-Sampson
 * Cat Eccles