Templates 
Sorry for not getting back sooner, and in fact I will for now address only one of our ongoing topics because I have a lot going on currently.
I've made a very preliminary first attempt at the templates , going through 1947. The issues I have are:
1. Technical problem: the brackets appear around the Radical Party.
2. Lots of red links. For now, I think I'd prefer de-linking them until we have articles.
3. Fitting some of the parties into categories, particularly the more obscure ones, and the ones that clearly might belong to two–the Ploughmen's Front, the German Party, etc. I will need help with this.
4. With reference to both the categories and individual parties, should they be in a particular order?
I put electoral alliances in italics and "important" (a vague term, I know) parties in bold. You're free to work within my sandbox to whatever extent you wish, until we come to a clearer consensus.