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2024 UK general election: is the registered electors and turnout data false?

I report here this new discussion I’ve opened. Thank you for your kind consideration of the matter. Vittoriochichia (talk) 08:03, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Updating UK council composition data (and diagrams)

Hi all. While updating the Kent County Council article (correcting the seat total and rebuilding the composition SVG), I noticed that many UK council pages seem to drift out of date in terms of current political composition. I'm technically able to generate up-to-date composition tables and diagrams from structured sources (e.g. Open Council Data UK [1]), and in principle could apply this across a large number of council pages. Before doing anything broader, I wanted to ask: (1) Is there interest in a more systematic update of council composition data? (2) What sources are generally considered appropriate for "current composition" (3) Are there any existing projects or standards I should be aware of? I am new to Wikipedia editing. At this stage I'm just trying to test the waters as to whether this is something that would be welcome, and what best practice(s) would be. Thanks. AnEnlightenedCrow (talk) 00:10, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Party colours

Over the years there's been a bit of work to tidy up the colours in the various party templates, and we've struggled occasionally to find sources for what a colour should be, since there is no single central list. In general I think we've gone with whatever the party says their official colour is, with a bit of speculation when they don't explicitly say.

I had a chat today with someone from the Commons Library who mentioned they have established a "local" set of colours (link) - these are the ones used on eg the House of Commons member website and so on. They're a little different from the official party ones, as they're intended to be easily distinguishable from each other.

I hacked up a quick (incomplete) chart - this is various parties with the colour codes used on Wikidata, on Wikipedia, and on the Commons Library list. I am not suggesting we should change any of these but it seemed interesting to have a look at them.

Item	Article	Wikidata code	Wikidata swatch	Wikipedia code	Wikipedia swatch	Library code	Library swatch
Q9630	Labour Party	DC241F	ZZZZZZZZ	#E4003B	ZZZZZZZZ	d50000	ZZZZZZZZ
Q9626	Conservative Party	0087DC	ZZZZZZZZ	#0087DC	ZZZZZZZZ	0063ba	ZZZZZZZZ
Q9624	Liberal Democrats	FAA61A	ZZZZZZZZ	#FAA61A	ZZZZZZZZ	fc7d0b	ZZZZZZZZ
Q6467393	Labour Co-operative	DC241F	ZZZZZZZZ	#E4003B	ZZZZZZZZ	d50000	ZZZZZZZZ
Q10658	Scottish National Party	FFF95D	ZZZZZZZZ	#FDF38E	ZZZZZZZZ	fff685	ZZZZZZZZ
Q622441	Liberal Party	FFD700	ZZZZZZZZ	#FFD700	ZZZZZZZZ	eb7a43	ZZZZZZZZ
Q40052	Social Democratic Party¹	7D26CD	ZZZZZZZZ	#6C2f56	ZZZZZZZZ	c33350	ZZZZZZZZ
Q841045	Ulster Unionist Party	9999FF	ZZZZZZZZ	#48A5EE	ZZZZZZZZ	a1cdf0	ZZZZZZZZ
Q215519	Democratic Unionist Party	D46A4C	ZZZZZZZZ	#D46A4C	ZZZZZZZZ	d46a4c	ZZZZZZZZ
Q76382	Sinn Féin	326760	ZZZZZZZZ	#326760	ZZZZZZZZ	02665f	ZZZZZZZZ
Q10691	Plaid Cymru	3F8428	ZZZZZZZZ	#008672	ZZZZZZZZ	348837	ZZZZZZZZ
Q175443	Social Democratic and Labour Party	006400	ZZZZZZZZ	#2AA82C	ZZZZZZZZ	4ea268	ZZZZZZZZ
Q104721252	Reform UK	12B6CF	ZZZZZZZZ	#12B6CF	ZZZZZZZZ	12b6cf	ZZZZZZZZ
Q9669	Green Party of England and Wales	02A95B	ZZZZZZZZ	#02A95B	ZZZZZZZZ	78b82a	ZZZZZZZZ
Q244927	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	F6CB2F	ZZZZZZZZ	#F6CB2F	ZZZZZZZZ	cdaf2d	ZZZZZZZZ
Q106205438	Alba Party	005EB8	ZZZZZZZZ	#005EB8	ZZZZZZZZ	005eb8	ZZZZZZZZ
Q135454755	Your Party			#FF3131	ZZZZZZZZ
Q97657388	Workers Party of Britain			#780021	ZZZZZZZZ	539acb	ZZZZZZZZ
Q985076	Traditional Unionist Voice	0C3A6A	ZZZZZZZZ	#0C3A6A	ZZZZZZZZ	0c3a6a	ZZZZZZZZ

¹ there may be some confusion here between different iterations of the SDP Andrew Gray (talk) 22:02, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

From founding, the SDP used red, white and blue as per its original logo, but once the alliance with the Liberal Party was speedily secured, moved to using yellow/gold as the colour for its window posters and leaflets, with Liberals sticking with their traditional orange, which unlike yellow comes in highly visible dayglo (the HoC orange in your swatches looks a little dark, rather like the darker orange a few of the old Liberal local parties used to deploy in the urban north and, for some reason, inner south London). In early elections, such as the 1983 GE, the colour used for the poster campaign for SDP candidates did vary, with a few using Liberal Orange but most sticking with SDP colours. After the merger with the Liberals to become, initially, the Social & Liberal Democrats, SLD, there was a period when yellow/gold almost became the standard colour used by the party, with the rump ‘continuing’ SDP reverting to red, white and blue. Under Paddy Ashdown, as Liberals began to reassert themselves within the party and the name changed to Liberal Democrats, orange once again became predominant, although you still see gold regularly used by campaigners, especially for leaflets but occasionally for posters, to this day. Whereas the rump SDP has slid towards purple. Best, for the SDP, would be a three colour French (or Dutch!) style bar, but I suspect that is technically impossible! MapReader (talk) 05:47, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Labour Party

Update on Starmer? ~2026-89811-2 (talk) 15:30, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)#Requested move 29 January 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)#Requested move 29 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 16:42, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]