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candidacy in election
election where the subject is a candidate

Represents	candidate (Q618536)
Data type	Item
Domain	human (Q5), electoral list (Q355844) or political party (Q7278)
Allowed values	persons, parties, groups (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example	Joonas Mäkinen (Q27982225) → 2012 Finnish municipal elections (Q640715) Ralph Nader (Q193156) → 2000 United States presidential election (Q327959) Goodluck Jonathan (Q57380) → 2015 Nigerian presidential election (Q24961921)
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P3602 (Q124306392)
See also	candidate (P726), candidate number (P4243), running mate (P6149)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties By value of property Most statements Fewest statements Most sitelinks Most linked wikis Total of sitelinks on items Most identifiers Fewest identifiers Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Map of people by place values: place of birth educated at work location residence place of death place of burial January 1st dates People with date of birth on January 1 People with date of death on January 1 People with both dates on January 1 Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P3602 Database reports/Constraint violations/P3602 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 223,367 Main statement 223,331 >99.9% of uses Qualifier 35 <0.1% of uses Reference 1 <0.1% of uses
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Type “human (Q5), electoral list (Q355844), political party (Q7278)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “human (Q5), electoral list (Q355844), political party (Q7278)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3602#Type Q5, Q355844, Q7278, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Value type “public election (Q40231)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value public election (Q40231) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3602#Value type Q40231, SPARQL

Qualifiers “electoral district (P768), series ordinal (P1545), represents (P1268), votes received (P1111), age of subject at event (P3629), candidate number (P4243), legislative body (P194), member of political party (P102), ranking (P1352), office contested (P541), statement is subject of (P805), subject has role (P2868), reason for deprecated rank (P2241), reason for preferred rank (P7452), running mate (P6149), results (P2501), announcement date (P6949), location (P276), subject named as (P1810), point in time (P585), candidate position (P10777), nominated by (P4353), applies to jurisdiction (P1001), endorsed by (P8001), electoral symbol (P12650)”: this property should be used only with the listed qualifiers. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3602#allowed qualifiers, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3602#Entity types

Scope is as main value (Q54828448): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3602#Scope, SPARQL

This property is being used by: nl:Sjabloon:Infobox persoon Wikidata Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Elected, but not a candidate
People who got elected in an election, but don't have the candidacy in election (P3602) statement for the election (Help)
Violations query: SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?election WHERE { ?item p:P39 ?positionstatement . ?positionstatement pq:P2715 ?election . MINUS { ?item wdt:P3602 ?election } }
List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P3602#Elected, but not a candidate

Percent received?

Could there be a qualifier to get the percent received, or a qualifier to store the total number of votes in the election to figure it out? Then infoboxes on Wikipedia could actually use this property. DemonDays64 | Talk to me 14:07, 5 August 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)

DemonDays64 So I found this discussion. While the reasoning isn't entirely wrong, the current situation is rather annoying. In my jurisdiction (Germany) the total number of votes is a rather meaningless number.

For an election I just looked up, the first six hits on Google give results in percentages only. Even the official results include totals only as a footnote.

To then get to the meaningful percentage requires the total number of valid votes. But that number isn't among the allowed qualifiers here. You better hope there is an item for the election itself that includes it. Which is unlikely for most elections to parliament, where each local district constitutes an individual race. Example:

candidacy in election	2019 United Kingdom general election ← this will only have total votes for all districts edit electoral district Islington North votes received 34,603 ← did he win? No idea... total valid votes 44,603 ← this property isn't supposed to be here 0 references add reference
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Adding totals as a a qualifier next to votes received fixes the acute problem. But that data is needed for every candidate, and the data will therefore be duplicated.

A datatype for fractions that preserves entered denominators as-is would be ideal in this case. Unfortunately, that does not currently exist.

The objection to the proposal above was that percentages can easily be calculated froj totals. Even ignoring how "easy" that may or may not be (and Wikipedia apparently not allowing it with the same ease vas just retrieving a value, the same argument can be mde in reverse: given a total and percentage, I can also calculate individual votes. I may be off by a few votes due to floating point math and I can understand how that seems more irritating for absolute data (compared to percentages, where everyone assumes it is rounded). But giving readers what they are far more likely to be looking instead of a treasure hunt + math quiz should outweigh that concern.

So I'd currently favor adding percentages. If people consider the duplication of data to be a problem, it should replace vote totals.

--Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 00:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Office contested?

If I want to say someone is a candidate in a primary, how can I specify which office it was for? office contested (P541) isn't allowed. DemonDays64 | Talk to me 14:14, 5 August 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)

If a politician runs in a primary or election but doesn't win should they still have this property?

For example, should Bernie Sanders (Q359442) have "candidacy in election" statements for the 2016 and 2020 Democratic Primaries? Ditto for all the other politicians who ran in 2020. Nicereddy (talk) 16:18, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Why not? --- Jura 16:34, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Nicereddy See the discussion on Talk:Q22923830, where I went five rounds with Jura on the issue before giving up. --Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 01:03, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

allowed qualifiers constraint

The allowed qualifiers constraint (Q21510851) currently includes results (P2501) however if you use that with one of the typical election results unelected (Q62082492) or elected (Q20826785) you get the value type constraint error that values of results statements should be instances of race result (Q54933017). Either the constraints for results (P2501) should be changed or a more appropriate property added to record the result of the persons candidacy. --Find bruce (talk) 01:40, 12 March 2021 (UTC)  Done