Talk:1918 United Kingdom general election

message: of William Adamson's photo for the info box, if an uploader can do the honours: http://lomjar.myby.co.uk/WilliamAdamson-cropped.jpg Mithy73 (talk) 16:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: I have a cropped version 

message: How can Labour be shown as second party on 57 seats when Coalition Liberals had 127 seats and Sinn Féin had 73 seats?
It looks to me like the order of parties in the infobox is all over the place.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this?
--Gramscis cousinTalkStalk 11:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tried to put this right. I suspect the previous ordering was based on votes rather than seats, but it was wrong even in that case; I think it ought to be done in terms of seats anyway, since we always talk about the "winner" of an election and so on in seat terms.--Kotniski (talk) 14:04, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox Query 

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message: The last paragraph of the lead originally said the 1918 elections were "the first and the only largely democratic and universal elections on the whole United Kingdom". Surely "the only" is a mistake or a bit of trolling. I have deleted it. 69.165.133.205 (talk) 21:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The word "only" 

message: I have merged the Conservatives and the Coalition Conservatives in the Infobox. The Infobox as it stands gives a very strong misimpression that there were two separate factions of the Conservative party standing in the election, and that the non-couponed Conservatives were anti-Coalition. This does not appear to have been the case, because it is clear from McEwen (1962), p. 2, that most of them were nothing of the sort - half of them were Irish Unionists, etc. 
It does strike me that someone might reasonably argue that since the Liberals are divided in the Infobox on the basis of whether they were couponed or not, the Conservatives ought to be divided similarly, but it seems to me that in the Liberal Party the issue of the coupons was the basis of a significant factional split so that they became fully separate parties in 1922, whereas in the case of the Conservatives there was no actual split at all. 
This change also has the advantage of allowing the gain/loss and swing figures to stop being a complete mess. The Infobox is meant to be a helpful summary, I believe, which it wasn't really before, whereas now it conveys succinctly the fact that the Tories effectively won the election in a landslide, etc.
I am not any great expert in these matters, though, so if someone who knows what they're talking about thinks I'm wrong, do correct me. Dionysodorus (talk) 02:05, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think your change is an improvement for the reason you state, even though it throws up an inconsistency. With regard to the Liberals, I think it is best to maintain a coupon split, even though a number of non-couponed Liberals elected had declared their support for the Coalition. I think it is also best in this article to ignore the events of 1919-1922 as they were nothing to do with the election. Graemp (talk) 18:22, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-couponed Conservatives in the infobox 

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message: Or at least not as far as I can see? --Red King (talk) 13:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have half-fixed this from the Irish election page but some data fields are empty. --Red King (talk) 21:58, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The source cited for this article does not show them seperately, which is why the table doesn't. Unless you have another source for the election figures, we have to go on what reliable sources say, and those sources combine the Conservatives and the Unionists - rightly so, as in practice they were the same party in Westminster. FriendlyDataNerdV2 (talk) 13:58, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I accept that. But it leaves the problem that tbe north-east corner of Ireland is shown purple but there is no explanation. So why is it not blue? Or at least why is there not an explanatory note? --Red King (talk) 19:45, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point - I think until someone re-does the map we may have to remove it, as it also shows 'Coalition Conservative' (dark blue) when there wasn't really a distinction between Coalition Con and Conservatives generally. FriendlyDataNerdV2 (talk) 08:08, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "seats by party" table doesn't seem to show the Irish Unionist/Ulster Unionist figures (shown in purple on the map, so not trivial). 

message: At 707 members, this appears to have been Britain's largest ever House of Commons. The drop to 615 members in the next election can be explained by the secession of Ireland, but there is no mention of any constituency changes which could account for the extra 37 seats compared to earlier elections. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 20:27, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size of the House 

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message: The Transfer of Seats section shows seat transfers to the National Liberals, but they weren't formed until 1922. I think these are meant to be referring to Coalition Liberals? --Gharbhain (talk) 20:04, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coalition Liberal/National Liberal Confusion 

message: As this election and its campaign happened during the severe 1918-19 influenza pandemic, a mention of the effect of this illness on the election would be relevant. Boleslaw (talk) 04:49, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influenza