Talk:Oxford East (UK Parliament constituency)

Prospective parliamentary candidates

Is it too early to add something about prospective parliamentary candidates for the next United Kingdom general election, such as Peter Tatchell and Steve Goddard? – Kaihsu 19:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Dhall replaces Tatchell for the Greens

Here is the Oxfordshire Green Party press release, 4 February:

At a packed meeting of local members - the Oxfordshire Green Party's AGM - the Greens today welcomed their newly elected Oxford East Parliamentary Candidate: Cllr Sushila Dhall. Her selection follows the departure of Peter Tatchell in December due to poor health.

Sushila Dhall has lived, studied and worked in Oxford city for over 25 years. An Oxford graduate (St Hilda's), she has spent her working life campaigning on behalf of marginalised people and groups. Sushila has been an environmental and social activist all her life, and an active Green Party member for nearly 20 years. Well known as an effective local campaigner, she has served on both Oxford City and Oxfordshire County Councils, using these roles to pursue environmental and social campaigns on behalf of groups and individuals. Key campaigns in Oxford include challenging the basis of large-scale car-based commercial developments such as the Westgate expansion and the Northern Gateway proposals, publicising the ongoing scandal of Oxford's illegally-high traffic-related pollution levels, and making the case for investment in renewable energies,insulation, affordable housing, local empowerment and community facilities. Sushila works as a public sector counsellor, and is the mot her of an 11-year-old daughter who attends a local state school. A keen local pedestrian and cyclist, her vision for Oxford East includes a focus on local produce and services, well-insulated, affordable buildings, and safe streets and public spaces.

Says Sushila: 'I am touched and proud to follow Peter Tatchell in representing the diverse and exciting constituency of Oxford East. My message is one of hope; the Greens offer practical ways forward out of the debt, pollution, war and profit-driven politics of today. I pledge my hard work, honesty and openness to Oxford East. Together we can work to

make a positive difference.'

Next election 2015

The Green Party prospective candidate is Ann Duncan.[1]

Candidate order

My understanding is that candidates should be in alphabetic order with the sitting MP (if any) at the top. Feel free to explain reasons but if the order keeps being changed without good reason I'll ask for the page to be protected. JRPG (talk) 15:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@JRPG:Where has this precedent come from? Ballot paper order is most neutral and informative way of providing the information, it is how other constituency pages are set up. Incumbents have no special treatment in an election - they are listed in alphabetical order on the ballot and SOPN, so seems logical Wikipedia follows suit. Frinton100 (talk) 16:34, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Frinton100. The order should have been defined in the wp:MOS -otherwise people will forever change it. I will ask one of the experts what the rule is and where I can find it defined. JRPG (talk) 17:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@JRPG: I think you will find nothing specific in the MOS. If you look at virtually every other constituency article you will see the candidates in ballot paper order. The only exceptions are generally when someone has added a new candidate and done so at the top - or more commonly - the bottom of the list instead of in their "correct" place. You will find that the vast majority of the regular election/politics editors use this style as a matter of course.Frinton100 (talk) 17:38, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@Frinton100: Nope, I can't see it in the MOS and inspection of a few name shows you appear to be ..uhm quite right! I'll ask one of the template experts for some comments. Regards JRPG (talk) 18:21, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl: Hi. I wonder if you could clarify whether the candidate order for the 2015 elections is defined anywhere? Thanks in anticipation. JRPG (talk) 18:39, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, JRPG. I'm not aware of it being defined anywhere, but from memory I think I recall that previous discussion on constituency talk pages have favoured ballot-paper order. That would be my preference, so I hope I'm not just projecting my own preference.

It might be helpful to ask at WT:WPUKPOL whether there has been a RFC. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:30, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

I am a stickler for this, and if we haven't written this down formally, we need to. In our favour is the fact that Wikipedia must reflect sources accurately, so the Statement of Persons Nominated is in alphabetical order, meaning so should our election boxes. All by-election articles have candidates in alphabetical order until the result, a convention that has never been questioned. We might just need it confirming through MOS or similar. doktorb _words^deeds 06:57, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, ballot order (by surname of candidate) makes sense. Making this rule explicit also makes sense. Kaihsu (talk) 19:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Since 2005 we've always placed the candidates in ballot paper order and I think that's the way to continue. If I remember rightly the original discussion, the feeling was duplicating the ballot that people see then they go and vote was the best approach. Also the fairest, as there are many arguments that people can make to place 'their' candidate at the top of the ballot, resulting in many edit wars, which we have been free of since we went to ballot paper order. - Galloglass 11:40, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Green candidate 2017

https://www.facebook.com/LarrySandersgreenparty

Larry Sanders (politician) Kaihsu (talk) 11:42, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15273434.Larry_Sanders_pledges_to_tackle_inequality_if_he_becomes_Oxford_East_MP/

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