Talk:Victoria (electoral district)

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[edit] Use of ballot-names in election tables

As a standard in the historical ridings I've done so far, I've been putting names in the tables as they're listed on the ballot, or on the report of election from Elections BC or Elections Canada (presumably the same as the ballot). So links are double-built with the linked-name (if any) as well as the form on the ballot; Amor de Cosmos is A. de Cosmos and Sir John A. gets the whole Right Hon. treatment (he was already Right Hon. at the time).Skookum1 08:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Note on Dates of Byelections/Deaths

The usual format in the Elections Canada tables is month-day-year, but it seems that for the details of the Byelections, i.e. in the event of Mr So and So's death, the month/day order is reversed to year-month-day. This isn't entirely clear but for the time being all the byelection-reason announcements are in the later, all other dates are derived from the former. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not. I don't know why Elections Canada would use two different dating systems, but they do. Could be because Hansard has the byelection announcements, e.g. 'By-Election: On Mr. Tolmie's death, 13-10-1937' and the actual returns is from the Chief Electoral Officer, as in the date of the election caused by Mr. Tolmie's death 1937/11/29Skookum1 20:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)