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Purpose

A set of templates to produce a table displaying the results of first-past-the-post elections in a more compact format than offered by {{Election box}}.

Example

These templates produce results like this:

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes % ±%
1953 by-election
death of Sir Bufton Tufton
Electorate: 57,901
Turnout: 31,432 (66.2%)
Conservative gain from SNP
Majority: 2,507 (12.5%)
Swing: 17.1% from SNP to Con
Jimmy SmithConservative26,24150.5N/A
Dave Spart Labour10,71920.1N/A
1955 general election
Electorate: 57,901
Conservative hold Jimmy SmithConservativeunopposed
1959 general election
Electorate: 57,901
Turnout: 31,432 (66.2%)
Conservative hold
Majority: 12,952 (19.5%)
Jimmy SmithConservative27,70954.5N/A
Dave Spart Labour8,60416.2N/A
Eric The Viking Vikings for Borsetshire6,90312.5N/A
1964 general election
Electorate: 62,184
Turnout: 41,401 (69.8%) +3.6
Labour gain from Conservative
Majority: 2,011 (9.5%)
Dave SpartLabour20,59138.9+22.7
Jimmy Smith Conservative18,70933.4−22.1
Col. Theo Smithers Borsetshire Ratepayers1,9036.7N/A
William Williamson Liberal1,8126.4N/A
Verte Profonde Green1,5616.0N/A
Egbert Monster Monster Raving Loony9123.1N/A
A. N. Ulsterman Ulster Unionist8742.7N/A
A. Alba SNP5402.3N/A
1966 general election
Electorate: 62,184
Turnout: 41,401 (69.8%)
Labour hold
Majority: 2,011 (9.5%) +1.4
Dave SpartLabour20,59139.9+1.1
Jimmy Smith Conservative18,70932.3−1.1
Col. Theo Smithers Borsetshire Ratepayers1,9036.7

Usage

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Simple usage

Blank example with basic parameters

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Full usage

Blank example with all parameters

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Parameters

Header parameters

The parameters are used once

Parameter Purpose Example1 Example2
Required parameters
election_title title of election, may be wikilinked [[Foobar South-Central by-election, 1953|1953 by-election]] [[United Kingdom election, 1951|1951]]
Optional parameters
anchor, anchor2, anchor3 a HTML anchor, to allow direct linking to the results for a particular election anchor=GE2020result anchor2=1917byelection
election_ref reference, usually to the source of the results <ref>[http://www.foobar-politics-today.com Foobar South-Central by-election results], Politics Today</ref> <ref name="somesource" />
election_note very short note on the election. Probably best kept to a terse reason for a by-election death of [[Sir Bufton Tufton]] resignation of [[Jane Imefedup]]
electorate number of registered voters 57,901
turnout_votes Number of ballots cast 31,432
turnout_percent Turnout as a percentage of registered electors 20.5 8.76
turnout_change Change in turnout as a percentage of registered electors +1.2 −5.3
majority_votes majority of the winning candidate in number of votes 1,607
majority_percent Majority as a percentage of valid votes +6.1 −3.7
majority_change Change in majority as a percentage of valid votes +1.2 −5.3
result whether the seat changed party hold, or gain (default=win)
loser_party name of the party which lost, to be wikilinked Social Democratic Party (UK) Labour Party (UK)
loser_party_unlinked name of the party which lost, will not be wikilinked Let's have a party all night Party
swing swing in percentage 4.3 −6.8
swing_from party which votes swung away from Labour Party (UK)
swing_to party which votes swung away from Conservative Party (UK)

Winner parameters

One set of these parameters for each candidate

Parameter Purpose Example
winner Name of candidate (may be wikilinked) [[Jimmy Abdul Rudigger Smith (junior)|Jimmy Smith]]
winner_party name of article on party Conservative Party (UK)
winner_party_unlinked text of article on party Borsetshire Free Lunch Party
winner_votes Number of votes received by the candidate 26,241
winner_percent Percentage of votes received by the candidate 50.5
winner_change Change in that party's percentage share of votes −0.5

Candidate parameters

One set of these parameters for each candidate, starting candidate2. Maximum of 25.

Parameter Purpose Example
candidaten Name of candidate (may be wikilinked) [[Jimmy Abdul Rudigger Smith (junior)|Jimmy Smith]]
candidaten_party name of article on party Conservative Party (UK)
candidaten_party_unlinked text of article on party Borsetshire Free Lunch Party
candidaten_votes Number of votes received by the candidate 26,241
candidaten_percent Percentage of votes received by the candidate 50.5
candidaten_change Change in that party's percentage share of votes +1.6

Anchors

By default, the template creates two anchors to the results of that election, using the following formats:

  1. <election name as displayed> result,
  2. <election name as displayed> result, all converted to lowercase

So for example, on Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency), the table row for the 1970 general election has the automatically-generated anchors General election 1970 result and general election 1970 result. They can be can be linked to as Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)#General election 1970 result and Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)#general election 1970 result

Custom anchors

In addition to the auto-generated anchors, up to 3 custom anchors may be added using the parameters |anchor=, |anchor2=, and |anchor3=.

For example, on Bradford Central (UK Parliament constituency), the entry for the 1886 by-election has the parameter |anchor=1886 unopposed ... which allows a link to Bradford Central (UK Parliament constituency)#1886 unopposed

See also