Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian politics/Constituencies: Article structure

This reference is a guideline on writing about Indian political constituencies (Parliamentary and Legislative Assembly).

See Wikipedia:Layout for the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidance to general structure of a Wikipedia article.

Title

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indian constituencies)

Headers

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Section headings

Include

• {{short description}}
• {{subst:use Indian English}}
• {{subst:Use dmy dates}}
• {{Infobox Indian constituency}}

Lead

See also: MOS:LEAD

History

Mention the Extent of constituency. Include the latest and historical delimitation reports.

Assembly constituencies

Only relevant for Parliamentary constituencies. A table of Assembly constituencies that are a part of the Lok Sabha constituency can be added.

Members of the Assembly

In a table would be preferable. At minimum, add the member elected in the last election/by-election. The table should be in chronological order (i.e. oldest election at the top and newest election at the bottom).

An example of such a table from Mehal Kalan Assembly Constituency:

Year	Member	Party
2012	Harchand Kaur		Indian National Congress
2017	Kulwant Singh Pandori		Aam Aadmi Party
2022

Election results

• Section each election separately in reverse chronological order (i.e. newest election at the top and oldest election at the bottom). If appropriate, (e.g. there are many elections), then further section by century.
• In the 'Election results' section of a constituency article, only list candidates who
  1. get more votes than NOTA and
  2. get more than 1% of the total votes polled. and
  3. are in the top 6 candidates in terms of votes polled.
• 6 candidates (+NOTA) is the limit of names in the result section. To add more, discuss the proposal at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indian politics and get consensus.
• Candidates who already have an article can be included in the list, based on editor discretion.
• Refer to this guide to understand how to calculate SWING. [1]

Notes

An example

2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Mehal Kalan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Kulwant Singh Pandori	53,714	46.52
	SAD(A)	Gurjant Singh Kattu	23367	20.24
	INC	Harchand Kaur	17545	15.2
	BSP	Chamkaur Singh	10394	9
	NOTA	None of the above	805	0.7
Majority			30347	26.28
Turnout			115462	71.54
Registered electors			161,387
	AAP hold		Swing

• If the election results have not been declared, arrange the list of candidates in the Alphabetical order of Political party name. After results are declared, they should be arranged in decreasing order of votes.
• Template:Election Results table can be used to substitute an empty table into the article.

See also

• Legislative Assembly: Link to the appropriate list of constituencies of that Assembly (Choose from Category:Lists of constituencies of legislative assemblies of Indian states)
• Parliamentary: List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha OR a more specific state list from Category:Lists of constituencies in India (if available).

References

Main page: WP:FOOTERS

Footer templates

• Constituency navbox for that state. Choose from Category:Vidhan Sabha constituencies templates or Category:Lok Sabha constituencies templates
• Categories:
  • Relevant district/s: (add to the State/UT category only if the constituency spans the whole region)
  • The relevant sub-category of Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states or Category:Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Stub template, while the article is a stub: {{India-constituency-stub}} and {{<replace with districtName>-geo-stub}}

Example articles

• Assembly constituency: Belonia Assembly constituency
• Lok Sabha constituency: Dewas Lok Sabha constituency