Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums

WikiProject Elections and Referendums
Shortcut	WP:WPE&R
Category	Elections
Wikimedia Commons	Elections
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}
Userbox	{{User E&R}}
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

Welcome to the rebooted WikiProject Elections and Referendums, a WikiProject re-established in 2009 to standardize and improve upon Wikipedia's coverage on elections.

Our userboxes are {{User E&R}} and {{User WikiProject E&R}}. Our talk page banner is {{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}. Most importantly, be sure to check out the to-do box below.

There is also a Discord server for editors to chat more informally.

Scope

The scope of the project is the coverage of elections and referendums anywhere in the world, from a national level to a local level.

A comprehensive entry with the most recent results on the national level worldwide can be found at the List of election results by country (note: a long document). An overview of past election results can be found at Elections in 2005, Elections in 2006, etc. A list of upcoming elections can be found at Upcoming elections section of the Electoral calendar. Please help us keep these lists up to date!

Election and Electoral systems
- Election - Psephology - Electoral system - Condorcet method - Criticisms of electoralism - General election - By-election - Additional Member System - Fixed-term election - First Past the Post electoral system - Indirect election - mixed-member proportional representation - Party-list proportional representation - Pluralism - proportional representation - single non-transferable vote - single transferable vote
Election results
- Elections by country - Electoral calendar
Voting and counting systems
- Vote counting systems - Voting system - Alternative vote top-up - Approval voting - Borda count - Bucklin voting - Closed list - Condorcet method - Coombs' method - Copeland's method - D'Hondt method - Droop quota - Election threshold - Group voting ticket - Hamilton method - Highest averages method - Instant-runoff voting - Largest remainder method - Preferential voting (disambiguation) - Range voting - Sainte-Laguë method - Schulze method - Schulze STV
Miscellaneous on elections
- Absolute majority - Anti-incumbency - Ballot - Ballot access - Bloc voting^{[disambiguation needed]} - Canvassing - Compulsory voting - Constituent - Constituency - Cumulative voting - Double majority - Duverger's law - Elector - Electoral fraud - Elective rights - Electoral college - Electoral fusion - Electoral reform - Electronic voting - Exit poll - Gallagher Index - Gerrymandering - Incumbent - Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Majority rule - Marginal seat - Narrow elections - Open list - Overhang seat - Parallel voting - Plurality - Polling station - Postal voting - Primary election - Protest vote - Push poll - Qualified Majority Voting - Recall election - Secret ballot - Simple majority - Sortition - Split vote - Spoiler effect - Strategic nomination - Suffrage - Suffragette - Supermajority - Tactical voting - Two-thirds majority - Underhang seat - Universal suffrage - Vote - Vote pairing - Voter turnout - Voting machine - Voting rights - Women's suffrage - Youth suffrage
Campaigning
- Campaign advertising - Campaign finance - Campaign finance reform - Campaign management tools - Canvassing - Election promise - Get out the vote - Negative campaigning - Political campaign - Political platform
Political parties
- Party system - Political spectrum - Political party - Multi-party system - Two-party system - One-party state - Dominant-party system - List of political parties - List of political parties by country
Information by country
- Elections: Elections by country - Table of voting systems by nation - List of national legislatures
- Political parties: List of political parties
Electoral reform in the United States by political division
- Alabama - Alaska - Arizona - Arkansas - California - Colorado - Connecticut - Delaware - Florida - Georgia - Hawaii - Idaho - Illinois - Indiana - Iowa - Kansas - Kentucky - Louisiana - Maine - Maryland - Massachusetts - Michigan - Minnesota - Mississippi - Missouri - Montana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Hampshire - New Jersey - New Mexico - New York - North Carolina - North Dakota - Ohio - Oklahoma - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - South Carolina - South Dakota - Tennessee - Texas - Utah - Vermont - Virginia - Washington - West Virginia - Wisconsin - Wyoming - Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia) - American Samoa - Guam - Northern Mariana Islands - Puerto Rico - U.S. Virgin Islands

Related guidelines

WP:NC-GAL details the naming convention for election and referendum articles.

To do

Election and referendum years

The subpage /Elections and referendums lists all national election and referendum templates and notes whether they are complete or not (in terms of having every election/referendum linked and whether there are articles on those elections/referendums).

Election and referendum results

The subpage /Election results aims to list all elections by year and notes whether the results are complete or not; articles with incomplete results can be found in Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results. A few other articles can be found via Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Election results missing.

Referendums in the European Union

The subpage /Referendums in European Union aims to create an article about referendums in each of the European Union countries.

How you can help

Promote the project

Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
Invite people to the project – drop a note on the user talk page of editors working on elections and referendums topics who aren't project members.
Consider promoting the project via the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject desk.

Improve the project

Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
Come up with new ones

Use the project

Create a new article.

Expand some of the articles (check out Category:Election stubs or some of its subcategories), always respecting Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. Also, check the Wikipedia: Manual of Style.
Add references to articles which need referencing improving. Biographies of living persons are a particular priority.
Assess some of the Unassessed Elections and Referendums articles, using the criteria at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Assessment. Update the project banner on the relevant talk page.

Check the talk page for requests for help.
Check the to do list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/to do
You can look at the project's popular pages list to identify particularly high-profile articles that could be improved.

Members

Please feel free to add your name here!

Recognized content

Elections and Referendums pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	39
FL	27
GA	176
B	1,457
C	6,008
Start	28,278
Stub	31,439
List	7,137
Category	27,302
Disambig	213
File	393
Project	13
Redirect	5,884
Template	10,968
NA	104
Assessed	119,438
Unassessed	4,048
Total	123,486
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 358,779	Ω = 5.32

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Elections and Referendums articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured lists

Former featured lists

Featured list candidates

List of constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly

Good articles

Former good articles

Good article nominees

Did you know? articles

Featured pictures

Daisy (1964)
The Gerry-Mander Edit

Former featured pictures

Commercial-LBJ1964ElectionAdDaisyGirl

Resources

Links to websites detailing election and referendum dates and results, as well as links to national electoral commissions can be found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Useful sources.
For creating results maps (for United States elections), the colors listed here should be used

Related WikiProjects

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
User:AlexNewArtBot/ElectionsSearchResult – New articles

Article alerts

Today's featured articles

30 Nov 2024 – January 1908 Irish representative peer election (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

15 Oct 2024 – 2018 Batman by-election (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by GraziePrego (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

20 Nov 2024 – Republican Party efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TrueCRaysball (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
20 Nov 2024 – Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TrueCRaysball (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1864 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1870 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1856 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1868 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1828 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1844 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1840 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
16 Nov 2024 – 1848 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wowzers122 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)

(4 more...)

Categories for discussion

14 Nov 2024 – Category:General elections by country (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Number 57 (t · c); see discussion
12 Nov 2024 – Category:Presidential elections in the United States (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Champion (t · c) was closed; see discussion
11 Nov 2024 – Category:Reactions to the election of Donald Trump (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Vinnylospo (t · c) was closed; see discussion
09 Nov 2024 – Category:1867 elections in the North German Confederation (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Pppery (t · c) was closed; see discussion
09 Nov 2024 – Category:1868 elections in the North German Confederation (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Pppery (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

29 Oct 2024 – 2025 Dutch general election (talk · edit · hist) →Elections in the Netherlands was RfDed by Dajasj (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

07 Oct 2024 – List of constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by MPGuy2824 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

06 Nov 2024 – 2024 Salvadoran general election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start discussion
06 Nov 2024 – 2021 Albanian parliamentary election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Iaof2017 (t · c); start discussion
28 Oct 2024 – 2022 Shetland Islands Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
22 Oct 2024 – 2023 Aston by-election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GraziePrego (t · c); start discussion
16 Oct 2024 – 1994 Kiribati presidential election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); start discussion
12 Oct 2024 – 2022 Albanian presidential election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Iaof2017 (t · c); start discussion
20 Sep 2024 – Uncommitted National Movement (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Personisinsterest (t · c); start discussion
01 Sep 2024 – Dewey–Stassen debate (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); start discussion
03 Aug 2024 – Solid South (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JohnAdams1800 (t · c); start discussion
30 Jul 2024 – 1990 Serbian general election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vacant0 (t · c); start discussion

(3 more...)

External watchlist

Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Elections and Referendums^{[dead link‍]}

v t e WikiProject Council
WikiProject guides	WikiProject Council Talk Guidelines/Intro WikiProjects Task forces Technical notes Assessment FAQ Work via WikiProjects
Directories and summaries	Directory Proposals Deletion Signpost Shortcuts Popular pages Database reports Watchers
Culture and the arts	Arts Music Performing Plastic Visual Broadcasting Crafts and hobbies Entertainment Games and toys Food and drink Internet culture Language and literature Biography Linguistics Media Philosophy and religion Sports
Geographical	Bodies of water Cities Countries Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Landforms Maps Parks, conservation areas and historical sites
History and society	History and society Business and economics Education Military and warfare Politics and government Transportation
Science, technology and engineering	Science Biology Chemistry Economics Geosciences Information science Mathematics Medicine Meteorology Physics Space Technology Time
Wikipedia assistance and tasks	Contents systems Maintenance Files Article improvement and grading Classroom projects WikiProjects