Talk:2006 Swedish general election

message: To avoid speculation on who has a resonable chance or not to gain seats amongst the minor parties, perhaps its best to include all parties except for the obviously frivolous ones. --Soman 08:35, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the good idea of splitting contender parties into major and minor - it makes it easier for readers to pick out significant contenders from the "dross". I also agree that we need more poll statistics from other sources - especially Sifo (if I remember rightly they have the largest sample size of any Swedish polster). Unfortunately I'm not yet experienced enough to make a table of results very easily so help would be appreciated (although I can always try copying the current table and changing what needs to be changed...). Tamino 13:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be happy to put the numbers in if you can link me to their results, we should be including all polls, but the Temo ones are the only ones I've been able to find online - Jord 14:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No worries, I did that already. It now represents the three major sources, Sifo, Demoskop and Temo. Itake 14:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor parties 

message: The reason I began the election campaign section was to give more background to the article (and make it more informative to those wishing to follow the election). Unfortunately I have only managed to write about unemployment, and not other issues such as education or care for the elderly. Please help by adding new subsections! Tamino 13:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Election campaign section 

message: Does anyone know the sample sizes of the various pollsters? I read somewhere that different Swedish pollsters have large differences in sample size, so perhaps they should be mentioned beside the tables to inform the readers. Tamino 08:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be easy enough to find through the links at each of the polls represented in the article. Itake 21:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion polling 

message: Upon first reading of the article from the top, it was not clear which party was represented by kd, mp, v etc. I suggest putting the actual party in instead, along with the abbreviation, so that confusion is limited. (It is not immediately apparent, for instance, that mp would be the abbreviation for the Green Party.) [Now I have an account, a signature Blackjack4124 12:02, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur. Centre-right parties (m, c, fp, kd) & Red-green parties (s, v, mp) is very confusing. Could add abbreviations beside individual parties in lines above. -- SGBailey 14:12, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Describing coalitions 

message: I note that we have Swedish county council elections, 2002. Is there going to be a Swedish county council elections, 2006 article? --Mais oui! 07:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course. But perhaps we should wait until final results are out. --Soman 09:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: County councils

message: see Members of the Swedish Parliament 2006-2010. --Soman 15:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  elected MPs 

message: I changed "electoral districts" into "constituencies", as that is what they are called on official Swedish webpages. See http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_Page____1065.aspx
There are electoral districts in the Riksdag elections ("valdistrikt"), but they are smaller units, where each contains one polling station: http://www.val.se/in_english/general_information/electoral_districts/index.html
I am working on a page on Swedish constituencies, but it isn't quite finished yet. In fact, I feel uncertain about a number of things, but I suppose other people can help with that, if anyone is interested. Life on Mars? 16:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Districts"

message: Soes anybody know when those figures will be published? --The monkeyhate 18:14, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They already are, see . (By the way, I don't like the term "permanent seat", as it seems to imply permanency over time, but that's another matter. As long as the Election Authority officially uses it, we're stuck with it.) -- Jao 19:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Permanent/Adjustment Seats 

message: I made this nifty template: Template:Sweden general election, 2006
It includes all parties with over 100 votes. I merged the different spellings for Donald Duck Party. Data was collected from  and 
Some things I am not so sure about:
* Could not find previous year data for NSF, even though I am sure they have existed for more than 4 years. Didn't they run last time?
* Is The Communists (Kommunisterna) on val.se the same as The Communist Party?
* Is Women Power a good translation for Kvinnokraft? It sounds a bit unnatural to me. 
--Truncated 16:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I included my template briefly... but then I saw that all pages had been updated to use the format on this page, even the template I based it on. I think this format is ugly... and we could probably exclude a lot of parties with less than 100 or even 200 votes. -- Truncated 14:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template for election results 

message: I've reinstated the map. The concerns raised at :Image:Swedish parliamentary election, 2006, map-counties.svg are all debunked by adding up the numbers at . Possibly the remover confused it with the regional (Landsting) or local (Kommun) election results, which certainly not always coincide the Riksdag election results. I've changed "parliamentary" to "Riksdag" in the image caption to clearer reflect what it is showing. -- Jao 22:05, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be happy to repeat myself. There was not a "red" majority in Östergötland, S, V and MP only received 47,7 % of the votes to the Riksdag. There was no "blue" majority in Gotland, M, Fp, C and Kd only received 49 % of the votes. The same goes for City of Gothenburg. Thuresson 15:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If your point is that it could be stated more clearly that the map shows relative majorities (counting only votes on parties that gained representation) rather than absolute majorities (counting all valid votes), then I whole-heartedly agree. Go ahead and state that more clearly. -- Jao 17:40, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If we're speaking relative majorities, the social democrats got a majority of the votes in all but 4 of the 29 voting districts. Thuresson 03:19, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but we're not talking about single parties here, but government-contender blocks. The map shows which of the two blocks got more votes than the other one. I don't know what's the best way to state this, but it's an interesting piece of information (which the largest-party information would not be). -- Jao 11:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: Did anyone else see a parallel here? MilquetoastCJW 16:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liberal Party Hacking and the Watergate Scandal 

message: The results lists the "Viking party" as the lowest ranking party, with 1 vote. However, it also says "Others", with 1,365. Why is "Viking party" included in the list but not those that compose the "Others"? 83.233.1.111 02:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Others"? 

message: First of, reading it as is, sweden seems to be using a first-past-the-post system and not proportional representation. Secondly, by bundling parties into blocks the swedish political system is greatly obfuscated. Representing right-left blocks as parties with the biggest party leader as leader for the block is POV. Why? Morphriz (talk) 23:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. In the articles for all previous elections the tables show the results of just the two major parties, not the major coalitions. However, in the template for this election there are headers for the two "coalitions", but this information is not shown, which makes the tabel very confusing. The template can't accurately show the political situation in 2006, because there was just one official coalition led by the Moderates. The Social Democrats, Greens and Left parties never formed a coalition. I don't know how to change this to make the table clearer. The map should also be explained in a better way (see discussion above)0. Mad Greg (talk) 22:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

text: The template Infobox Election could be updated so that the field for coalition works, but I have to test that first. Mad Greg (talk) 00:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is extremely confusing 

message: I reverted the "simplification" of the infobox (removal of all but the two largest parties) because once you've simplified something that much, it isn't a simplification any more, because it just makes it harder to understand.  Having two parties in the infobox leaves a strong impression of a two-party system, and all of the other parties were highly relevant in this election. There is no reason to leave them out. — Swedishpenguin | Talk 23:45, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Simplification" of infobox 

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