Template:Compact election box

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Purpose

A set of templates to produce a table displaying the results of first-past-the-post elections in a more compact format than offered by {{Election box}}.

Example

These templates produce results like this:

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
1953 by-election death of Sir Bufton Tufton Electorate: 57,901 Turnout: 31,432 (66.2%)		Conservative gain from SNP Majority: 2,507 (12.5%) Swing: 17.1% from SNP to Con		Jimmy Smith	Conservative	26,241	50.5	N/A
				Dave Spart	Labour	10,719	20.1	N/A
1955 general election Electorate: 57,901		Conservative hold		Jimmy Smith	Conservative	unopposed
1959 general election Electorate: 57,901 Turnout: 31,432 (66.2%)		Conservative hold Majority: 12,952 (19.5%)		Jimmy Smith	Conservative	27,709	54.5	N/A
				Dave Spart	Labour	8,604	16.2	N/A
				Eric The Viking	Vikings for Borsetshire	6,903	12.5	N/A
1964 general election Electorate: 62,184 Turnout: 41,401 (69.8%) +3.6		Labour gain from Conservative Majority: 2,011 (9.5%)		Dave Spart	Labour	20,591	38.9	+22.7
				Jimmy Smith	Conservative	18,709	33.4	−22.1
				Col. Theo Smithers	Borsetshire Ratepayers	1,903	6.7	N/A
				William Williamson	Liberal	1,812	6.4	N/A
				Verte Profonde	Green	1,561	6.0	N/A
				Egbert Monster	Monster Raving Loony	912	3.1	N/A
				A. N. Ulsterman	UUP	874	2.7	N/A
				A. Alba	SNP	540	2.3	N/A
1966 general election Electorate: 62,184 Turnout: 41,401 (69.8%)		Labour hold Majority: 2,011 (9.5%) +1.4		Dave Spart	Labour	20,591	39.9	+1.1
				Jimmy Smith	Conservative	18,709	32.3	−1.1
				Col. Theo Smithers	Borsetshire Ratepayers	1,903	6.7

Usage

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Simple usage

Blank example with basic parameters

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Full usage

Blank example with all parameters

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Parameters

Header parameters

The parameters are used once

Parameter	Purpose	Example1	Example2
Required parameters
election_title	title of election, may be wikilinked	[[Foobar South-Central by-election, 1953|1953 by-election]]	[[United Kingdom election, 1951|1951]]
Optional parameters
anchor, anchor2, anchor3	a HTML anchor, to allow direct linking to the results for a particular election	anchor=GE2020result	anchor2=1917byelection
election_ref	reference, usually to the source of the results	<ref>[http://www.foobar-politics-today.com Foobar South-Central by-election results], Politics Today</ref>	<ref name="somesource" />
election_note	very short note on the election. Probably best kept to a terse reason for a by-election	death of [[Sir Bufton Tufton]]	resignation of [[Jane Imefedup]]
electorate	number of registered voters	57,901
turnout_votes	Number of ballots cast	31,432
turnout_percent	Turnout as a percentage of registered electors	20.5	8.76
turnout_change	Change in turnout as a percentage of registered electors	+1.2	−5.3
majority_votes	majority of the winning candidate in number of votes	1,607
majority_percent	Majority as a percentage of valid votes	+6.1	−3.7
majority_change	Change in majority as a percentage of valid votes	+1.2	−5.3
result	whether the seat changed party	hold, or gain (default=win)
loser_party	name of the party which lost, to be wikilinked	Social Democratic Party (UK)	Labour Party (UK)
loser_party_unlinked	name of the party which lost, will not be wikilinked	Let's have a party all night Party
swing	swing in percentage	4.3	−6.8
swing_from	party which votes swung away from	Labour Party (UK)
swing_to	party which votes swung away from	Conservative Party (UK)

Winner parameters

One set of these parameters for each candidate

Parameter	Purpose	Example
winner	Name of candidate (may be wikilinked)	[[Jimmy Abdul Rudigger Smith (junior)|Jimmy Smith]]
winner_party	name of article on party	Conservative Party (UK)
winner_party_unlinked	text of article on party	Borsetshire Free Lunch Party
winner_votes	Number of votes received by the candidate	26,241
winner_percent	Percentage of votes received by the candidate	50.5
winner_change	Change in that party's percentage share of votes	−0.5

Candidate parameters

One set of these parameters for each candidate, starting candidate2. Maximum of 25.

Parameter	Purpose	Example
candidaten	Name of candidate (may be wikilinked)	[[Jimmy Abdul Rudigger Smith (junior)|Jimmy Smith]]
candidaten_party	name of article on party	Conservative Party (UK)
candidaten_party_unlinked	text of article on party	Borsetshire Free Lunch Party
candidaten_votes	Number of votes received by the candidate	26,241
candidaten_percent	Percentage of votes received by the candidate	50.5
candidaten_change	Change in that party's percentage share of votes	+1.6

Anchors

By default, the template creates two anchors to the results of that election, using the following formats:

1. <election name as displayed> result,
2. <election name as displayed> result, all converted to lowercase

So for example, on Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency), the table row for the 1970 general election has the automatically-generated anchors General election 1970 result and general election 1970 result. They can be can be linked to as Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)#General election 1970 result and Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)#general election 1970 result

Custom anchors

In addition to the auto-generated anchors, up to 3 custom anchors may be added using the parameters |anchor=, |anchor2=, and |anchor3=.

For example, on Bradford Central (UK Parliament constituency), the entry for the 1886 by-election has the parameter |anchor=1886 unopposed ... which allows a link to Bradford Central (UK Parliament constituency)#1886 unopposed

See also

• Template:Compact election box no change
• Template:Election box

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