Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums

Colors

How would I determine the color of an Italian political party? Some of them have commonly associated ones (like centere left or right coalitions) but others don’t have official colors. How would I go about finding and determining the colors of a party? Vestrix (talk) 18:44, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Usually it is the dominant colour on their logo, or one used by them in their campaigns. Number 57 22:56, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

If it's an already major maexisting party, it should have its own color already which you can see at Module:Political party/1 (and A to Z). Howard the Duck (talk) 10:28, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Consular Agencies

So there is a series of articles I wrote called consular agencies of Belgium and consular agencies of Albania and they only include honorary consular agencies. Should I add the non-honorary ones or should I change the titles to specify? Vestrix (talk) 03:51, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the series. Either is good. Adding the non-honorary ones seems better. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:59, 29 June 2025 (UTC).

request to be featured in The Signpost

Anyone want to request the reboot of this project to be featured by the WikiProject Desk in The Signpost? rootsmusic (talk) 19:05, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Instituto Nacional Electoral#Requested move 4 June 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Instituto Nacional Electoral#Requested move 4 June 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CNC (talk) 13:58, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

rightdatausa.com and ballotwire.com: Reliable sources?

Hi, everyone. One of my present pursuits on Wikipedia is to add tables displaying county-based voting results for state and federal US elections. While I was finding sources for my next table(s), I came across rightdataUSA.com, which has very detailed analyses of election stats, as well as statistical profiles of American politicians and even Census data. For example, this is a link to their 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election page. While I'm not a fan of Right Data demarking Republicans as blue and Democrats as red, I'll put that aside at present and point out that there is no evidence to my eye at least that Right Data USA is user-generated content. What is particularly useful is that Right Data has county stats of US House elections (One example, CO-3 in 2022), and even has limited stats on state races such as Secretary of State, Auditor, Attorney General, etc.

While writing this post, I also came across Ballotwire.com. It appears to have generalized election coverage, and statistical data of US elections, especially since 2016. (Also, the colors are conventional with this website.) However, the county stats are only available for Senate, Governor, and President elections; and it does not touch much on non-gubernatorial statewide races. I believe Ballot Wire could be very useful on Wikipedia, permitting that it abides by source guidelines.

What are your thoughts on these two websites? Right Data has only three positive search results on Wikipedia (now four with this post), while Ballot Wire has none. And does anyone know where a list is on Wikipedia which details reliable sources specifically for USA election stats, if such a list exists here? Any input is appreciate.

Mungo Kitsch (talk) 04:04, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

These have the same as Dave Leip's Atlas where, a lot of times, they don't say where they get the information, which causes problems when they misreport or have old provisional data. Election data from each state's State Board of Elections, SOS, or the Federal Election Commission should be used wherever possible. At first glance, I don't see any bias with Ballotwire, so it should be fine for just the election coverage, but information from the sources listed at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources should be preferable when possible. Wowzers122 (talk) 10:33, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Poll inclusion criteria

What is the typical inclusion criteria for election polls? i.e. what is the standard for quality? When there are a variety of independent sources, why include those sponsored by a specific campaign, PAC, or other organization aligned with a specific candidate? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 14:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I don't think that we've ever discussed the general inclusion criteria for opinion polls, but I have instead seen discussions regarding this for the UK, for example, which IMO should also be followed for other countries. Every country has different polling standards: in some countries there are both high-quality and low-quality pollsters and in some there are only low-quality pollsters. Looking by your contributions, I assume that you want to know this because of the NYC Democratic primary mayoral polls that were commissioned by PACs and campaigns. IMO, for NYC, we should instead look at the quality of these polls (whether they only published the numbers, or did they also include more methodology data), and if they're high-quality, we should include them in the article. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

RfC on changing the article title format for local elections

People might want to give their input here. Cheers, Number 57 23:12, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I've presented an idea to have the Template:Infobox legislative election expanded upon

This is so it will be able to showcase both current seat figures and last election seat figures, due to Talk:Next Danish general election#Seat figures, and input would be very appreciated. Discussion is Thomediter (talk) 12:27, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Possible uncompleted election article

2011 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election is missing a lot of the normal etceteras, and had a bunch of empty templates removed. Maybe this was never really finished? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:01, 29 June 2025 (UTC).

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics#Election Infobox Color Bar

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics#Election Infobox Color Bar that might be of interest to this community. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 08:03, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Gain or Hold?

What is the consensus about when an incumbent candidate has switched parties since their election i.e. was elected as a member of Labour but then later defected to the Greens or the Liberal Democrats. Should it be a gain since it's a gain compared to the last election or a hold since the incumbent had already switched parties before the election TheHaloVeteran2 (talk) 17:24, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

I personally would say a gain as the comparison should (IMO) be with the previous election. A sort of comparator is that seat change parameter in election infoboxes is meant to show seat changes compared to the previous election, not to the situation before the election (although I am also aware this is misused for a small number of countries). Number 57 20:32, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Agreed. The comparison is strictly with the most recent election, so what the incumbent does in the meantime is irrelevant.-- Earl Andrew - talk 20:45, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

We've always treated defections and by-elections as "in isolation", because general elections should always be treated 'like for like'. I've sometimes found myself in editing conflicts because some editors want to treat by-elections as the comparison. That is not standard practice outside Wiki and shouldn't be inside. doktorb _words^deeds 21:42, 2 July 2025 (UTC)