Talk:2008 United Kingdom local elections

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Last Local Elections were in May 2007

Youngest candidate

I have removed the following from the article:-

"2008 will be the second year that those aged 18 to 20 will be allowed to stand. The youngest candidate standing in a district authority election is Jonathan Pryor in Chorley North-West in the Chorley Borough.‹The template Talkfact is being considered for merging.› ^{[citation needed]} He will be 18 years and 336 days old on May 1."

This is because this states that the youngest candidate is Harriet Thomson standing in Poole. Davewild (talk) 17:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just realised that the link I use above is for 2007 but still think it should be removed as the paragraph was unsourced and the Jonathan Pryor article is up for deletion as well. Davewild (talk) 17:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorting

There appears to be a problem with sorting the tables, sorting by "Previous control" appears to do nothing while sorting by "Result" sorts on "Previous control". Probably something to do with the column span on the table. Any one know how to fix it? Keith D (talk) 20:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Total Councillors?

It's not clear to someone outside the UK whether the "Summary of results" represents all councillors in the UK or only those whose positions were up for election.

Leading to the next point -- where is a list of total numbers of councillors in office by party for the whole UK? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.199.198.79 (talk) 06:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The answer to the first half of your question is that the figures refer to the councillors up for election on this occasion. This is because there is no existing figures for the total number of councillors per party - it would not surprise me if each party did not have a complete count for its own number! --Pretty Green (talk) 09:32, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Off wiki there is an informal total count on this page - here - if you scroll to the bottom of the page. Davewild (talk) 17:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]