Talk:1987 Icelandic parliamentary election

Results table format

Starting a discussion as per the suggestion at WP:DRN.

The original format of the results table was this. Humungous125 changed it to this. I have suggested this as a compromise. The main differences are the table heading and the leaders' column.

My view is that the heading ("Summary of the 25 April 1987 Icelandic parliamentary election results") is unnecessary as we're already on an article about the election and directly below a "Results" heading. I also don't believe the leaders column is necessary as it makes the table unnecessarily wide, the leaders aren't strictly related to the result, and we don't even have them for all parties, meaning blank spaces.

I think the concerns about needing links to the next/previous election and listing the leaders can be addressed better by adding an infobox and a short section on the contesting parties that mentions the leaders. If these are added, I can't see that there is any remaining problem with the proposed compromise table? Cheers Number 57 18:37, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

(I tried adding an infobox to the article without having seen the comment below, but it was removed by Humongous. Number 57 22:13, 4 April 2020 (UTC))

Pinging regular/occasional results table creators @Impru20, Aréat, Dereck Camacho, and HapHaxion: for comments/thoughts/input. Please invite any other editors you are aware are regularly involved in results table creation. Cheers, Number 57 22:22, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't mind changes about the headers and link although I agree to them being unnecessary. I'm strongly opposed to leaders being included in result tables, however. For the reasons you mentioned. And because it is very often that we can't fill in all the information, as can be seen here, and sometimes parties have multiple head which make it a mess. It isn't necessary there, and make the table too wide. --Aréat (talk) 00:51, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

I think results' table normally don't have chairpersons in it, probably for a good reason. I would suggest to omitte the chairpersons (but include them on an infobox) and kept the rest as it is know. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 01:29, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Results table format and information

I improved the results table to include relevent information, which has been removed by Number 57. The table format I propose for the article and all previous election articles is below. It follows the same format as the 1991 Icelandic parliamentary election results table.

The following points that have been removed from the table are as follows include:

• The person who leads a party through an election is relevent and should be included in an article. Having it in the table is clear for the reader, rather than create additional tables.

• The percentage changes is a relevant column as it illustrates how much a party has gained or lost in support since the last election.

• Links to the previous/subsequent elections at the top of table is important, to make navigation easier for the reader, as the navigation bar for Icelandic Elections at the bottom of the article do not appear on mobile devices. Adding infobox for links in small articles like these should not happen, as there is not much to summarise and creates clutter, especially on mobiles.

The below table, as mentioned would follow the subsequent elections in format, so creates a standard for Icelandic elections. It also includes information that have been included in other election articles. Some examples include the 1997 Irish general election#Results, 2019 Canadian federal election#Full results, 2019 United Kingdom general election#Full results and 1999 South African general election#National Assembly results.

Look forward to everyone's thoughts on the table below and whether it should be used in this article. Humongous125 (talk) 18:54, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

1983 ← Summary of the 25 April 1987 Icelandic parliamentary election results → 1991
Party		Chairperson	Votes	%	+/–	Lower House		Upper House
						Seats	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Independence Party	Þorsteinn Pálsson	41,490	27.2	11.4	12	3	6	2
	Progressive Party	Steingrímur Hermannsson	28,902	18.9	0.4	8	2	5	1
	Social Democratic Party	Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson	23,265	15.2	3.5	7	3	3	1
	People's Alliance	Svavar Gestsson	20,387	13.3	4.0	5	2	3	0
	Citizens' Party	Albert Guðmundsson	16,588	10.9	new	5	new	2	new
	Women's List	no designated chairperson	15,470	10.1	4.6	4	2	2	1
	Humanist Party		2,434	1.6	new	0	new	0	new
	National Party		2,047	1.3	new	0	new	0	new
	Association for Justice and Equality	Stefáns Valgeirssonar	1,893	1.2	new	1	new	0	new
	Alliance of Social Democrats		246	0.2	7.1	0	2	0	2
Valid votes			152,722	98.9	–
Invalid/blank votes			1,716	1.1	–
Total			154,438	100	–	42	+2	21	+1
Registered voters/turnout			171,402	90.1	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver