Wikipedia:2024 UK general election editathon

General election, 4 July 2024 in a nutshell:

Where?: Newspeak House 133 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DG
Nearest tube - Bethnal Green
When?: 4-5 July 2024, 20:30-06:00 **NOTE new later start time**
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Cost: Free

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This page contains resources and links to help participants in the workshop to create and edit pages related to the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Predicting results

Labour: 410 seats Conservative: 131 seats Liberal Democrat: 61 seats Reform UK: 13 seats Scottish National Party: 10 seats Other: 25

Source: Ipsos for BBC/ITV News/Sky News

List of participants

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Resources and links

Boundary changes mean most seats have new electoral demographics

Betting odds:

Betfair Constituencies A-C, D-K, L-R, S-Z

Wikipedia list articles give you some idea of who new MPs might be:

Basic Wikipedia Page Structure:

(Short summary)
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References - automatically generated when you add ciations

Categories and lists

Articles to improve

Draft:Rachel Blake (politician) (NOT Rachel Blake (politician)), Labour candidate for Cities of London and Westminster. Tory since its formation in 1950; Nickie Aiken retiring. Split was 40/31/27 Tory/Labour/LibDem last time, but LibDem was prominent Chuka Umunna. Normally Labour clear second. Should be Labour in 2024

Articles to be created

We should create these articles in DRAFT space, as they are only candidates, and not deemed notable (in Wikipedia terms) until elected. If we create them straight away in mainspace, they are liable to be deleted.

London

Draft:Nesil Caliskan (NOT Nesil Caliskan), Labour candidate for Barking. Labour since its formation in 1945; Margaret Hodge retiring.
Margaret Mullane, Labour candidate for Dagenham and Rainham. Labour in 2019, but very marginal. Should be safe now.
Sarah Sackman, Labour candidate for Finchley and Golders Green. Tory last time, very likely Labour in 2024.
Draft:Mark Brooks (politician) (NOT Mark Brooks (politician)), Tory candidate for Bexleyheath and Crayford. Tory last time, 60%/30% Tory/Labour vote split.
Draft:Deirdre Costigan (NOT Deirdre Costigan), Labour candidate for Ealing Southall. Labour since its formation in 1983; Virendra Sharma retiring.
Draft:Shama Tatler (NOT Shama Tatler), Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green. Tory last time (Iain Duncan Smith) 48.5/45.9 Tory/Labour. Very likely Labour in 2024, unless the deselected Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen (now standing as an independent) splits the vote.
Draft:Natasha Irons (politician) (NOT Natasha Irons (politician)), Labour candidate for Croydon East. New constituency; would have been 48/41% Labour/Tory last time. Labour will win.
--14yearsl8r (talk) 21:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC) is editing Draft:Primesh Patel (NOT Primesh Patel), Labour candidate for Harrow East. Tory since 2010 (Bob Blackman), 54.6/37.4 Tory/Labour. Likely Labour this time.[reply]
Joe Powell (politician), Labour candidate for Kensington and Bayswater. Very tight in 2017 (Labour majority of 20) and 2019 (Tory majority of 150). Likely Labour this time, but the former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad is standing as an independent and could split the vote.

Others

Draft:Lucy Rigby, not Lucy Rigby, Labour candidate for Northampton North.
Mike Tapp is the prospective Labour Party candidate for Dover and Deal.
Draft:Jess Brown-Fuller (not Jess Brown-Fuller) is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Chichester