Talk:United Kingdom general election, 2001
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It's an idea. But shoudl we have sub pages of all the voteing. example:
2001 UK general election/Beckenham Reults
Then on the page the results for that constitunecy.
-fonzy
I personally would feel that would be too much balkanization. If you want to put this type of information on Wikipedia, I would suggest putting it on a page called Beckenham (etc.), so that results from other elections and general information on the constituency (geography, history, list of MPs voted from the constituency and whatever else you can think of) can be added on the same page. Andre Engels
- corrected link to current to remove a redirectSandpiper 6 July 2005 00:13 (UTC)
"Khendon (A landslide is a large swing, not a large victory)"
Khendon: I think in U.S. usage "landslide" is definitely "a large victory". I don't know if this might confuse anyone.
Hmm. Interesting. I can't find anything supporting my position. Ho hum. - Khendon 11:42 Oct 1, 2002 (UTC)
I've moved this page to UK general election, 2001 This is the format used for the vast majority of elections on wiki, namely [[{country} {election}, {year}]]. The other British election pages will be renamed also. It makes sense to have the one universal template used everywhere rather than a different format for British elections. ÉÍREman 23:11 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)
How about having the number of seats that each party stood in? Otherwise it would seem extrodinary that, for example that UKIP failed to win a single seat, while Kidderminster Health won a seat despite getting 362,076 fewer votes. Saul Taylor 09:55, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Majority question
Could someone explain the sentence, "Labour kept an overall majority of 167 (was 179) and 247 (was 254) over the Conservatives"?
Acegikmo1 16:01, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I think it should be "Labour kept an overall majority of 167 (was 179), and a majority of 247 (was 254) over the Conservatives".
[edit] New Chart
See User:Ugen64/Sandbox for a new chart I have adapted from the Canadian federal elections pages. It looks okay, IMO, but it needs better colors -- someone should take a look at it, fix any mistakes, etc. ugen64 03:29, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Health Concern
I've changed the displayed title of the party from "Kidderminster Health" to "Health Concern". I live in the constituency that the party won, and "Health Concern" is overwhelmingly the name used locally. I don't think I've ever heard anyone use "Kidderminster Health". Actually, given that the party's full name is "Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern", there may be an argument for it to go in the "Independent" column, though I haven't actually done that. Loganberry 02:03, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Speaker
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, was in place as speaker in 2000, so would have contested this election as "Speaker", as in 1997. Is this true, and if so, shouldn't it be added to the table? El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 10:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Not only that, but the number of seats in the table is 658...plus the speaker is 659. The statement at the top of the article about "641 seats" therefore needs to be corrected, unless I'm very much mistaken. 194.206.158.60 10:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Addition to table
I think the results table should also include a column denoting the party leader at the time, as the Northern Ireland pages (2003 and 2007) do. This gives people a bigger idea of the personalities and issues at hand, amongst other things. For example, a column should be added between 'Party' and 'seats', with columns stating (in order); 'Tony Blair', 'William Hague', 'Charles Kennedy', 'John Swinney', 'Jeffrey Titford', 'David Trimble', etc.
