If the consensus is against having these elaborate charts on bio pages, I won't object. I don't see them as problematic, though I can accept that others might.

The "highlighting" is simply to draw attention to the subject in the context of a chart format; I hadn't thought of this as contentious, and I never considered doing anything similar for biographical information. CJCurrie 

No contention, I think it is a good thing, and I am wondering how to do it where the election data is owned by the election article or a template.  The bad thing is to have several copies of the data- one in each candidate article- floating around.

One way is to have,
 Template:Election X (this has data)
 Page:Election X
contains other narrative text (contentious, result of dissolution, highlights, etc)
Electoral results
 {{Election X}}
 Template:Election Y (this has data)
 Page:Election Y
contains other narrative text (dull, scandals, highlights, etc)
Electoral results
 {{Election X}}
 Page:Joe Everyman
 Early life
 born in wild, raised by wolves, plays sax
 Philosophy
 Electoral record
 {{Election X|Attorney General|Joe Everyman}}
 {{Election Y|Member of Parliment|Joe Everyman}}

So, in a template {{Election X|post|candidate}}, the parameters post and candidate can expand to hide all but post and bold candidate with CSS.

Do you see?