Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums

WikiProject Elections and Referendums
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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

Welcome to the rebooted WikiProject Elections and Referendums, a WikiProject re-established in 2009 to standardize and improve upon Wikipedia's coverage on elections.

Our userbox is {{User E&R}} and our talk page banner is {{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}. Most importantly, be sure to check out the to-do box below.

Scope edit

The scope of the project is the coverage of elections and referendums anywhere in the world, from a national level to a local level.

A comprehensive entry with the most recent results on the national level worldwide can be found at the List of election results by country (note: a long document). An overview of past election results can be found at Elections in 2005, Elections in 2006, etc. A list of upcoming elections can be found at Upcoming elections section of the Electoral calendar. Please help us keep these lists up to date!

Election and Electoral systems
- Election - Psephology - Electoral system - Condorcet method - Criticisms of electoralism - General election - By-election - Additional Member System - Fixed-term election - First Past the Post electoral system - Indirect election - mixed-member proportional representation - Party-list proportional representation - Pluralism - proportional representation - single non-transferable vote - single transferable vote
Election results
- Elections by country - Electoral calendar
Voting and counting systems
- Vote counting systems - Voting system - Alternative vote top-up - Approval voting - Borda count - Bucklin voting - Closed list - Condorcet method - Coombs' method - Copeland's method - D'Hondt method - Droop quota - Election threshold - Group voting ticket - Hamilton method - Highest averages method - Instant-runoff voting - Largest remainder method - Preferential voting (disambiguation) - Range voting - Sainte-Laguë method - Schulze method - Schulze STV
Miscellaneous on elections
- Absolute majority - Anti-incumbency - Ballot - Ballot access - Bloc voting^{[disambiguation needed]} - Canvassing - Compulsory voting - Constituent - Constituency - Cumulative voting - Double majority - Duverger's law - Elector - Electoral fraud - Elective rights - Electoral college - Electoral fusion - Electoral reform - Electronic voting - Exit poll - Gallagher Index - Gerrymandering - Incumbent - Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Majority rule - Marginal seat - Narrow elections - Open list - Overhang seat - Parallel voting - Plurality - Polling station - Postal voting - Primary election - Protest vote - Push poll - Qualified Majority Voting - Recall election - Secret ballot - Simple majority - Sortition - Split vote - Spoiler effect - Strategic nomination - Suffrage - Suffragette - Supermajority - Tactical voting - Two-thirds majority - Underhang seat - Universal suffrage - Vote - Vote pairing - Voter turnout - Voting machine - Voting rights - Women's suffrage - Youth suffrage
Campaigning
- Campaign advertising - Campaign finance - Campaign finance reform - Campaign management tools - Canvassing - Election promise - Get out the vote - Negative campaigning - Political campaign - Political platform
Political parties
- Party system - Political spectrum - Political party - Multi-party system - Two-party system - One-party state - Dominant-party system - List of political parties - List of political parties by country
Information by country
- Elections: Elections by country - Table of voting systems by nation - List of national legislatures
- Political parties: List of political parties
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

Related guidelines edit

WP:NC-GAL details the naming convention for election and referendum articles.

To do edit

Election and referendum years edit

This page lists all national election and referendum templates and notes whether they are complete or not (in terms of having every election/referendum linked and whether there are articles on those elections/referendums).

Election and referendum results edit

This page aims to list all elections by year and notes whether the results are complete or not; articles with incomplete results can be found in Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results. A few other articles can be found here

Referendums in the European Union edit

This page aims to create an article about referendums in each of the European Union countries.

How you can help edit

Promote the project

Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
Invite people to the project – drop a note on the user talk page of editors working on elections and referendums topics who aren't project members.
Consider promoting the project via the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject desk.

Improve the project

Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
Come up with new ones

Use the project

Create a new article.

Expand some of the articles (check out Category:Election stubs or some of its subcategories), always respecting Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. Also, check the Wikipedia: Manual of Style.
Add references to articles which need referencing improving. Biographies of living persons are a particular priority.
Assess some of the Unassessed Elections and Referendums articles, using the criteria at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Assessment. Update the project banner on the relevant talk page.

Check the talk page for requests for help.
Check the to do list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/to do
You can look at the project's popular pages list to identify particularly high-profile articles that could be improved.

Members edit

Please feel free to add your name here!

Recognized content edit

Elections and Referendums pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	37
FL	18
GA	138
B	1,093
C	4,965
Start	22,148
Stub	26,032
List	5,759
Category	25,865
Disambig	234
File	389
Project	12
Redirect	5,190
Template	8,582
Assessed	100,462
Unassessed	13,919
Total	114,381
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 290,347	Ω = 5.34

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Elections and Referendums articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles edit

Former featured articles edit

Featured lists edit

Former featured lists edit

Good articles edit

Former good articles edit

Good article nominees edit

Did you know? articles edit

Featured pictures edit

Daisy (1964)
The Gerry-Mander Edit

Former featured pictures edit

Commercial-LBJ1964ElectionAdDaisyGirl

Resources edit

Links to websites detailing election and referendum dates and results, as well as links to national electoral commissions can be found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Useful sources.
For creating results maps (for United States elections), the colors listed here should be used

Related WikiProjects edit

Tools edit

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Article alerts edit

Today's featured articles

03 Dec 2023 – Thaddeus McCotter 2012 presidential campaign (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

30 Nov 2023 – 1964 Illinois House of Representatives election (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Elli (t · c); see discussion
16 Nov 2023 – 1855 Kansas Territory elections (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gen. Quon (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

30 Nov 2023 – List of Missouri's congressional districts by HDI (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Hog Farm (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
30 Nov 2023 – List of Arizona's congressional districts by HDI (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Hog Farm (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
27 Nov 2023 – Polling in Scotland for next United Kingdom general election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bondegezou (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
18 Nov 2023 – Cook Partisan Voting Index (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Cortador (t · c) was closed as keep by Let'srun (t · c) on 25 Nov 2023; see discussion (8 participants)

Proposed deletions

26 Nov 2023 – Results of the 2006 Canadian federal election (Quebec and Atlantic Canada) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Chidgk1 (t · c) was deproded by Espresso Addict (t · c) on 02 Dec 2023

Redirects for discussion

30 Nov 2023 – List of Mississippi's congressional districts by HDI (talk · edit · hist) →Mississippi's congressional districts was RfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

18 Nov 2023 – 2022 City of Edinburgh Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
09 Oct 2023 – Muslim–Muslim ticket (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vanderwaalforces (t · c); start discussion
28 Sep 2023 – 2022 Glasgow City Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Aug 2023 – 2022 Clackmannanshire Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
13 Aug 2023 – 2022 Argyll and Bute Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Jul 2023 – 2022 Angus Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Jul 2023 – 2022 Aberdeenshire Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

27 Nov 2023 – Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign (talk · edit · hist) RfC by 67.82.74.5 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be merged

20 Jul 2023 – Waveney (UK Parliament constituency) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lowestoft (UK Parliament constituency) by Chessrat (t · c); see discussion
15 Jun 2023 – Bellary Rural Assembly constituency (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bellary Assembly constituency by Raj.sathiya (t · c); see discussion
19 May 2023 – 2023 Turkish general election (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2023 Turkish parliamentary election by Number 57 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

18 Nov 2023 – 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Chessrat (t · c); see discussion
12 Sep 2023 – 2018 Oregon legislative election (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CrookCoMaps61 (t · c); see discussion
19 Apr 2023 – Bheemili Assembly constituency (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 456legend (t · c); see discussion
19 Apr 2023 – Machilipatnam Assembly constituency (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 456legend (t · c); see discussion
19 Apr 2023 – Kakinada City Assembly constituency (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 456legend (t · c); see discussion
16 Dec 2022 – Kowloon Central (2021 constituency) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 118.140.155.14 (t · c); see discussion
09 Oct 2021 – 2020 Singaporean general election (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by TheSandDoctor (t · c); see discussion
04 May 2021 – 2018 Arizona State Legislature election (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by DemonDays64 (t · c); see discussion
14 Jan 2021 – Two-party system (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Birdzilla12345 (t · c); see discussion
26 Oct 2020 – 2020 Belarusian presidential election (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Abcmaxx (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

01 Dec 2023 – Draft:1973 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council election (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JoeKramer04 (t · c)

External watchlist edit

Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Elections and Referendums^{[dead link]}