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Welcome to the Elections and Referenda WikiProject. This project deals with articles and other wikipedia content related to elections, refenda/referendums, political campaigns, and other elements of practical electoral politics. If you're interested in helping out, please add your name to the participants section in the talkpage . This project's template is Template:PoliticalCampaigns.

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The following results in the last couple of years are not yet complete (either percentage or number of seats are not available yet). See also the Electoral calendar 2007. You are requested when possible to add data:

[edit] Incomplete results

[edit] Articles covered in the project

The Politics series
International relations
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Political scientists
Comparative politics
Bureaucracy
Street-level bureaucracy
Adhocracy
Executive
Judiciary
Legislature
Subseries of Politics
Electoral systems
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A comprehensive entry with the most recent results on national level worldwide can be found at the Worldwide overview of results (note: a long document]]. An overview of the 2005 and 2006 results can be found at Elections in 2005 and Elections in 2006. A list of upcoming elections can be found at Upcoming elections section of the Electoral calendar.

[edit] Elections and parties

[edit] Aim I: Completing election results

One of the aims of the project is completing recent election results on Wikipedia.

[edit] Convention for Tables with summaries of the results

All latest election results in all countries and dependencies have been made in one specific layout. Therefore the template:Electiontable or in older versions template:Election-table are used. These tables are always put in a template, to enable the consistency of the results throughout Wikipedia. The templates are named for e.g. Netherlands parliamentary election, 2003 and should have the same name as an entry on that election. These templates are placed in the Elections in 2006 (or 2005) article, in Elections in XX (always the latest for each national office and body) , in Politics of XX in the section Political parties and elections (only the latest for each national office and body), in the entry on the elected body of office and in the specific entry on the election. Each legislative election table includes at least space for the name of the party, preferably in English and native language, the number of votes, the percentage of popular vote and the number of seats. Parties without representation with less than 1% of the vote are usually not included. More data can be included. At any office election table, each candidate is listed with name, party and at least space for number of votes and percentage of popular vote.

[edit] The template

[edit] Example of the Electiontable template

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Summary of the election results
Parties Votes % Seats
 
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Source:

[edit] Aim II: Politics of XX series

For every country and dependency a Politics of XX series has been made. The series templates, which use similar layout use the politbox template and should at least include entries on:

  • the head of state
    • the office holder (the template is not placed itself in that article)
  • the head of government
    • the office holder (the template is not placed itself in that article)
  • any article on the government (in narrow sense, not on individuakl ministries or ministers)
  • the parliament
    • the chambers of parliament
  • the list of political parties
    • when there are only a few relevant parties: these parties
  • the elections in this country
    • the latest election (head of state and chambers of parliament), this is not yet a fact)
  • when available: human rights, foreign relations and other issues

The template can include data on administrative divisions and judiciary. The template should be placed in the right top of any article included in the template as well as of any article on any (national) election and political party in the country. Australia has a separate bottom template. A solution should be found for the template in combination with an infobox on parties.

[edit] Electoral resources

Annex to national sites on elections and referendums, one can find electoral results in the following sources:

[edit] Global

[edit] Regional

[edit] Related Projects

The Voting Systems WikiProject is dedicated to improving articles for specific voting systems. Very often it is the case that particular voting systems lead to different elements of election and campaign strategy relevant to this project - the featured article on Single Transferable Vote, for instance, contains a section on the effect it has on campaign politics.