Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies

Electoral Calculus problem

Many of the election results on constituency pages just use a reference from the Electoral Calculus website, but this fails verification as it does not give the names of all of the candidates and the number of votes for some candidates is summerised on the site under Other, thus you cannot verify the votes for all of the candidates. I think we need to find another source that gives the names and votes for all candidates in an election and tag all uses of just this reference as {{failed verification}}. Keith D (talk) 21:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

@Keith D Commons Library will have a full dataset shortly, covering all candidates - expected around the end of the week once all the paperwork has come through & been checked, I think. This is probably the best possible source in the long run, especially as they're now moving to having a public site for it - https://electionresults.parliament.uk/ - this gives a single page per constituency per election (eg Yeovil 2019), but also a single CSV file per election (eg 2019 csv) with individual counts for each contestant. I believe the 2024 data will be put up in the same way.

For the time being, there's a complete dataset from Democracy Club - it's pretty reliable though not validated in the same way the Parliament one will be. It currently has votes cast for all candidates, but isn't comprehensive for things like total turnout & spoiled ballots, since those aren't always announced by returning officers in a consistent way. (scroll to "download CSV"). Again, individual per-candidate counts. Though it seems like it might be more straightforward to wait a week and then bring everything up to speed with the Parliament data. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:53, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

I was thinking more of the older election results from the 20th century which the reference just gives the winning candidate and counts for the main parties, grouping the count for smaller parties under other. Keith D (talk) 17:28, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Discussion on sub-talk page

There is a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_Parliament_constituencies/Style#Opinion_polling (a sub page of this one) that may be of interest to watchers here. LukeSurl ^t c 11:57, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Chester South and Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency) listed at Requested moves

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Useful source for describing 2023 changes

Perhaps a bit late, but I have just discovered that UK Parliament has nice clear summary pages describing the overlap between old and new constituencies, such as this. It gives a clearer idea, to complement the detailed lists of wards which don't really give an overall picture. PamD 12:02, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Order of election results

I have started a discussion about the order of election results at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies/Style § Order of election results, which might be of interest. Please consider participating in the discussion there. Mgp28 (talk) 13:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)