Template talk:Election box/Archive 2

Crossing the floor

What to do when MPs etc. cross the floor? See Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency).

James F. (talk) 09:38, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

• An interesting situation. I think that firstly there should be a comment on the Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency) page mentioning briefly what happened with a pointer to Andrew Hunter (British politician) for a more detailed explanation. Secondly it should be described as a Conservative hold not a gain from the DUP. This is supported by the BBC who also describe it as a Conservative hold. 80N 06:06, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

For SDP-Liberal Alliance candidates

I've created {{Election box candidate for alliance}} for use for the Alliance candidates in the 1983/1987 elections. It needed to be different from this one because whether the candidate is SDP or Liberal needs to be specified - see Newbury for it being used in action. -- Joolz 16:39, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Initiative elections

I was hoping this box would be extensible enough to use for initiative / referendum elections, like California special election, 2005. Any thoughts about a new template for this use?

I don't think you'd be able to use the existing templates, but you should be able to come up with somethink uses the same structure and has a similar look and feel. It would be great to have some consistency of presentation. 80N 08:16, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Help With Wikibox/table for House seating

Hi. I've been working on the Canadian electoral project and have made historical legislatures/ridings here in British Columbia my pet project. I'm trying to evolve a seating-plan table for the elections pages (e.g. British Columbia general election, 1952, British Columbia general election, 1903, etc, showing the "division" of the House, Govt on the left as is customary. I've worked out a basic template, having columns just for Govt member/party, Govt riding, Opp riding, and Opp member/party. The template is Template:LegislatureSeats. I'd originally thought about having the percentage/plurality showing, but these boxes are more about the composition of the House than the electoral returns themselves; another option was to show any cabinet/committee posts, but these shift throughout a sitting so would be hard to track.

The nut I'm trying to crack now is how to use the formatted/templated party colours in this template; I don't want it like in election box where the colour is its own column; and I can do it so the colour's in the first column; but I'd rather have it in the Ridings column; or, if it's going to be in the member/party column on the left, it should also be in the one on the right.

For now I'm inputting the background colours by hand/code. If someone understands the language of the colour templates and knows how to do what I'm asking please get back to me.Skookum1 20:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Question

I am redoing a bunch of the Canadian Federal Ridings election results and I am using the end election box template. The only problem I have is that the end election template has a line break in it. This means that whenever I use it, it creates an extra line which just makes the final end box look bloated. I was wondernig if this done on purpose? Or should I fix it? Cheers --Omnieiunium 04:45, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Created new templates but can't get them to work

From the 1920s to the 1970s, there were numerous Independent Republican candidates who stood in Northern Ireland constituencies. More often than not, these candidates were members of Sinn Féin, which was banned at various periods. I'd like to make a list of these candidates and as a step in that direction have created Template:Independent Republican (Ireland)/meta/color and Template:Independent Republican (Ireland)/meta/shortname. For some reason, I cannot get these to work on Fermanagh_and_South_Tyrone_(UK_Parliament_constituency) for example. Can anyone help?--Damac 08:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)