Talk:2024 European Parliament election

Adding a graph to the popular vote polls

I suggest that we add a chart to the popular vote table to provide a 6-day moving average to the polls. Example:

Union-wide list proposal

https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?reference=2020/2220(INL)&l=en Kaihsu (talk) 07:10, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

The text has been approved by the European Parliament and has just been sent to the European Council, it hasn't been passed yet, though we could add some paragraph in the article to mention it. Julio974◆ (Talk-Contribs) 13:32, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Maps

What is even the source of the maps? It is not stated anywhere. One could think that they can only be based on the Föderalist projections, but they never give data for sub-national constituencies in Ireland or Belgium. Even in that case, there would be obvious mistakes, such as how come LEFT is winning in France. I think they should be removed if this is not clarified. 2A01:CB04:2C6:5300:9C40:1637:13D9:13C (talk) 16:49, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

I agree and I removed them provisionally to avoid misleading readers. They can be added back if and when the source has been clarified. Brainiac242 (talk) 14:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

What is the general opinion about having such maps? I could recreate accurate maps based on Föderalist projections if there is a desire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbuvn (talk • contribs) 16:13, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

I would avoid having them on Wikipedia. At best it just shows which parties are leading in the national polls, since that's what the projections are derived from. That data isn't really relevant to this page since the polling itself isn't for the EP election itself. Gust Justice (talk) 12:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Number of constituencies Germany

For whatever reason, table says there are 16 districts for Germany and their 96 seats. I thought Germany had moved to a single, nationwide constituency since 2019 - has this changed, or is this still true and are the districts for something else? iamthinking2202 (please ping on reply if you would be so kind) 04:06, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

It has always been divided into just one constituency. The "districts" refer to the fact that parties can choose, instead of having one national list, to have 16 state lists to distribute its seats. I believe only the CDU and CSU use this. In any case, they don't have any effect on how many seats each party receives, only where those seats are won. This is similar to how it works in Italy and Poland. Gust Justice (talk) 16:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

New co-leader at Greens/EFA

Just a note that Ska Keller is not the female leader of the Greens/EFA group anymore but Terry Reintke (also from Germany). Can someone please change it in the infobox? I am not that familiar with the CSS there. Cassandro (talk) 22:11, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

von der Leyen might face some legal challenges ahead

European prosecutors are investigating her decisions regarding Covid vaccines, she might have engaged in corruption. should be mentioned under the "Controversies" section. 2003:DA:C749:200:DD99:7A3A:C673:9047 (talk) 00:48, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Need reliable sources to state that for this to be included in the article. In addition, it would have to be sufficiently related to the election, and not just von der Leyen personally. Gust Justice (talk) 18:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

von der Leyen is the current president of the European Commission and leading candidate of the centre-right EPP group. Therefore you cannot seperate her personal baggage from the upcoming election. 2003:DA:C700:A300:D995:36F:8A61:617B (talk) 23:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Infobox

Since the European elections are proportional elections of a parliamentary assembly, I think we should consider changing the current {{Infobox election}} with the {{Infobox legislative election}}, as used in other national elections across Europe. Clairos (talk) 19:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

I would disagree with changing the infobox to legislative election. The advantage from using that template, is that it allows you to depict more than 9 parties. Given that there won't be formed more than 9 groups after this election, it is not neccesary to use the legislative election template to show all groups in the European Parliament. In addition, the legislative election template is not perfect. It is not nearly as flexible and it is limited how much information it can be displayed. For instance it can't show the raw number of votes cast for each group, nor the % swing compared to the previous election. So on the aggregate, while I am not wholly opposed to the usage of the legislative election template in all cases, I don't see the argument for it to be compelling for this page. Gust Justice (talk) 10:37, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your points and agree that the {{Infobox legislative election}} may display less informations. However, I would still consider to think about using this template because it takes up less space and is easier to read. Clairos (talk) 08:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC)