Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Archive 2

Question re percentage change in election results
I've just been updating the results for the Sheffield Council election 2007 and I want to work out the percentage changes for each ward. As this council is elected in thirds, would it be most appropriate to use the percentage change for the party from the previous year's election, or the percentage change from the year in which the incumbent was elected (2004 in this case I think). I would say the first choice, as it is the party percentage which is most significant but I thought I'd better ask first. --Spondoolicks 11:49, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Most wanted articles
There are currently 23 articles listed at WP:WANTED in the "Electoral districts" section that might be of interest to this project. --Sapphic 17:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Campaign informal sub-section of project
I have created Category:Election campaigns and I think that this is a sub-section of this project that will grow rapidly, at least for all future Australian election campaigns. Perhaps some guidlines need to be drawn up to maintain consistency as Wikipedia policy is undefinitive and uniformative about articles of this nature. A few users have expressed the opinion that campaign articles might violate 'what WP is not', if the articles read like a blog or a news service. For the philosophy of this sub-section, see the archived test case. - Grumpyyoungman01 05:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Request for Comment - Elections in Edmonton
There's a discussion on the appropriateness of articles for individual municipal elections over at Requests_for_comment/Edmonton Election Pages. I thought this might interest some members of this WikiProject.Sarcasticidealist 22:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Graphs
Over at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1886 someone has added a graph. I've put my comments in the talk page there. I think it is a bit off to single out that election to have a pie graph, and if there is going to be a pie graph in one there might as well be a standard. I know some countries and the EU are able to do half-pie's which are good to show coalitions and the "left-right" conflict, but in countries like the UK it doesn't quite work unless you group all the "4th" parties into an ugly "other" bloc. Does anyone have any thoughts on how this could be developed or scrapped? Mikebloke 21:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

request for suggestion
I'm looking for suggestions/ideas to improve Electoral history of the Constitution Party. Is this the correct WikiProject to discuss at? Is there a template for election results that would work here? ⇔ ChristTrekker 15:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Assesment
How about creating an assesment template for this project? Would be much useful. --Jonte-- 16:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Project template
Hi. I tried to tag some articles w/ the project template at talk pages but found none. -- FayssalF  -  Wiki me up®  16:41, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Naming convention question
Hi all-

Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate place to ask for advice on this topic. I am one of the edtiors of the Baltimore mayoral election, 2007 article. I'd like to expand the article to also include information about and results from the elections for the Baltimore City Council, which happen on the same day. Already there's some information in the article on the citywide election for City Council President. If I do so, I feel that the title of the article should be changed, but I'm not sure to what, exactly -- "Baltimore general election, 2007", perhaps? --Jfruh (talk) 18:51, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Electoral reform
In reference to the electoral reform items, is this the correct WikiProject for that or should I create another one? Here are the articles that need to be created: Captain Zyrain 17:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Electoral reform in the United States by political division
 * Alabama - Alaska - Arizona - Arkansas - California - Colorado - Connecticut - Delaware - Florida - Georgia - Hawaii - Idaho - Illinois - Indiana - Iowa - Kansas - Kentucky - Louisiana - Maine - Maryland - Massachusetts - Michigan - Minnesota - Mississippi - Missouri - Montana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Hampshire - New Jersey - New Mexico - New York - North Carolina - North Dakota - Ohio - Oklahoma - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - South Carolina - South Dakota - Tennessee - Texas - Utah - Vermont - Virginia - Washington - West Virginia - Wisconsin - Wyoming - Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia) - American Samoa - Guam - Northern Mariana Islands - Puerto Rico - U.S. Virgin Islands

Most_wanted_articles
Most_wanted_articles has been updated using the 2007-09-08 data dump. --Sapphic 17:24, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Electoral Reform?
How much interest is there among the members of this group in the subject of electoral reform? I was thinking, if there is not a lot of interest here in that, perhaps it would be good to split off and put the electoral reform topics under a new project, WikiProject Electoral Reform. There is a lot of work to be done on subjects like ballot access, felony disenfranchisement, youth suffrage, instant-runoff voting, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, as well as the "Electoral reform in the ... (insert name of country/state/other political division here)" series. Captain Zyrain 03:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking that the downside to that is that there could be a lot of overlap between the two projects, unless the voting systems and miscellaneous topics were moved to the new WikiProject. Captain Zyrain 03:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Electoral reform infobox
I am thinking of creating an electoral reform infobox for the "Electoral reform in ..." series for the U.S. states. What info should be included? I was thinking of: Captain Zyrain 08:23, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Felony disenfranchisement provisions
 * Alternate voting methods in place
 * Ballot access requirements
 * National popular vote interstate compact ratification status
 * Absentee ballot regulations
 * Initiative and referendum provisions
 * Redistricting rules
 * Voting equipment allowed / used

Okay, I created the infobox at Template:Infobox Electoral reform. It has been implemented at Electoral reform in Virginia. I don't particularly like how it's turned out, as this sidebar goes the length of the whole article. Any suggestions? Please be bold about editing it. Thanks, Captain Zyrain 01:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Another template
Template:WikiProject Elections and Referenda has been added to a bunch of the election-related articles. This template needs to be modified to include an Importance indicator. E.g., instant-runoff voting should be a high-importance article. Can someone please help with that? Thanks, Captain Zyrain 01:44, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Spanish elections
I was looking through WP recently and coverage of this area seems extremely barren. There were no articles at all on the individual electoral districts used and coverage of the MPs/deputies seems to be limited to the leaders of the main parties. This is a major area that could be expanded especially with the General election approaching. Ideally, we should have articles on all constituencies in the congress and senate and articles on all deputies and members of the senate - similar in other words to the comprehensive coverage of British Politics already on here. By my count that means that over 110 constituency articles need to be created and over 600 pages on members of the Cortes. I feel that the constituency articles are the priority and so have made a start on these by creating Madrid (Spanish Congress Electoral District), Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District) and Soria (Spanish Congress Electoral District). All 3 of these need to be expanded to cover elections back to 1977 and members elected. I hope that someone will be able to assist with this and creating the other pages. Valenciano 18:55, 15 November 2007 (UTC)