Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian politics/Election: Article structure

This reference is an information page on writing about Indian Election (Parliamentary and Legislative Election).

See Layout for the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidance to general structure of a Wikipedia article.

Headers
Include
 * short description

Infobox

 * Infobox election
 * Tool to create Parliament diagram of seat distribution in the assembly.
 * Only those parties that are covered by Reliable Media as a major contender for winning that election are listed in the infobox. The number of potential contenders can be 2,3 or 4 etc. Many parties and independents will contest in the election, all of them cannot be added in the infobox. Their members will only be listed in the result section after they win the election. Other party candidates and independents can be listed in the individual constituency articles in the appropriate table about the election Candidates/result.
 * The major contenders should not be removed from infobox after the results are declared even if they get 0 seats, because they "were" the major contenders "during" the election.

Lead
The [election name] was held on [election date(s)]. [Sentence-long summary of election result].

Background

 * Electoral system: Link to the page detailing the Election process in the state or country.
 * Brief of previous result, current government, incumbent CM/ PM

Election schedule

 * Full tabular schedule
 * Rescheduled voting, cancellations

Voter statistics

 * Electronic voting machines and security
 * Electorate details

Parties and alliances

 * Political parties and alliances
 * There are many parties contesting elections and all cannot be added since this is not an exhaustive list. Only notable parties that are contesting a significant number of seats should be added. If a party that is either not notable or is contesting only a small number of seats, wins a seat, then it can be added to this section after the results are announced.

Candidates

 * Only those parties that are covered by Reliable Media as a major contender for winning that election are listed in the candidate list. The number of potential contenders can be 2,3 or 4 etc. Many parties and independents will contest in the election, all of them cannot be added in the candidate list section.
 * After the publication of the results, table of the list of candidates can be copied and converted into "results by constituency" table. The table of candidates should be updated after election and the winning candidates can be made bold text to show successful candidate. See the list on as an example.

Election issues
Key issues relating to the election

Campaign

 * Party campaigns
 * Campaign finance
 * Campaign controversies
 * Campaign events

Party manifestos

 * Highlights of the manifesto pf major parties for the particular election

Incidents

 * Major incidents related to the election (pre-voting)

Election

 * Voting highlights
 * Voting incidents

Surveys and polls
*Only Polls conducted by reliable sources should be added. A reliable polling agency also publishes error % and sample size and both of these data fields should be included along with the results. Poll Results without error % and sample size are misleading and should not be added. (refer to 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio as an example)
 * Opinion Polls*
 * Exit Polls

Turnout

 * State/UT-wise voter turnout details (for a Lok Sabha election).
 * District-wise voter turnout details (for a state Assembly election).

Election results

 * In case of Lok Sabha election
 * Results by Parties and alliances
 * Results by States


 * In case of State/UT Assembly election
 * Results by Parties and alliances
 * Results by Districts
 * Results by Constituencies

Aftermath

 * Government formation
 * Inauguration (oath taking) ceremony

Bypolls

 * Major incidents
 * Results

Footer templates

 * Election navbox for that state.
 * Categories
 * Stub template, while the article is a stub.

Example articles

 * General election: 2019 Indian general election
 * State election: 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election