Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums

WikiProject Elections and Referendums

Shortcut	WP:WPE&R
Category	Elections
Wikimedia Commons	Elections
Parent project(s)	Voting systems
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}
Userbox	{{User E&R}}
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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 userbox is {{User E&R}} and our talk page banner is {{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}. Most importantly, be sure to check out the to-do box below.

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 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 - Hamilton method - Highest averages method - Instant-runoff voting - Largest remainder method - Preferential voting - Range voting - Sainte-Laguë method - Schulze method - Schulze STV
• Miscellaneous on elections
  • Absolute majority - Anti-incumbency - Ballot - Ballot access - Bloc voting - Canvassing - Compulsory voting - Constituent - Constituency - Cumulative voting - Double majority - Duverger's law - Elector - Electoral fraud - Elective rights - Electoral college - Electoral fusion - Electoral reform - Electorate - Electronic voting - Exit poll - Gallagher Index - Gerrymander - 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 - Single-party state - Dominant-party system - List of political parties - List of political parties by country
• Politicians
  • Politician - head of state - head of government - List of national leaders
  • President - prime minister - Premier - minister - governor - mayor
  • Member of Parliament - senator - congressman - councillor
• 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

To do

How can you 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 creating a Wikipedia Ad for the project (see {{Wikipedia ads}}).
• 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

Members

Please feel free to add your name in here. KhnassmacherKhnassmacher (talk) 04:40, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Recognized content

Elections and Referendums pages by quality
Quality	Total pages
FA	7
GA	10
B	43
C	105
Start	416
Stub	425
List	360
NA	1,391
Assessed	2,757
Unassessed	827
Total	3,584

No results were found.

Resources

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

Global

• Saudi Municipal election
• Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive
• IFES Electionguide
• Angus Reid
• Kronika Wyborcza (Elections in Polish)
• Centre on Democratic Performance
• Maximiliano Herrera Electoral calendar
• Rulers.org
• Worldstatesmen.org
• Political Resources on the net
• Richard Kimber's Political science resources
• Per Joergen Olafsen's Political Page
• Parties in Democracies
• Yahoo! Elections
• Administration and cost of elections
• Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE)
• CIA World Fact Book<
• Fischer Weltalmanach
• Saudi Voters Center
• Inter parliamentary union

Regional

• African Elections Database
• Australian Politics and Elections Database
• Parties and elections, only Europe
• Political Database of the Americas
• LANIC Newsroom Electoral Observatory
• Elecciones en Latinoamérica
• Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
• Eurasia Election Watch

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Voting systems

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.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Elections and Referendums

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