Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/elections

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This is some notes on the data model for elections. There are three aspects here:

1. items for an individual politician having claims to describe their candidacies
2. items for a specific electoral contest (a by-election or a single constituency in a general election)
3. items for a general election with overall results

For the time being, we are aiming to describe #1, #3, and only by-elections from #2; items for individual constituency contests at general elections may follow later.

Data model - candidacies

An item should have a candidacy in election (P3602) statement for each candidacy, with the general election or by-election set as the value and qualifiers:

• electoral district (P768) - a separate statement for each seat contested)
• represents (P1268) - for declared party affiliation - this may be changed in future for consistency with other party data
• votes received (P1111) - straight count of votes received per source
• results (P2501) - elected, defeated
• ranking (P1352) - rank in the list of results

Current status

• Data from UK House of Commons Election Results at Constituency Level (Q115691306) (v5) imported for February 1974 onwards, only for winning MPs.

• Vote count and party mismatches will need to be manually checked
• Data 1950-1970 prepared for import but will need to be updated to v6
• Pre-1950 data will need reworking of the code

• Data from By-elections to the UK House of Commons (Q115770900)

• Not yet imported

To figure out

• How best to model unopposed elections and elections overturned on petition?
• How to give a rank to winners of multi-seat unopposed elections?
• Should the Coalition Coupon be a separate qualifier or a pseudo-party?
• Should