Talk:Elections in Scotland

message: Just what is electronic counting? I hope it is way better than Diebold. 58.28.134.109 06:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electronic voting? 

message: Is there any threshold that a party must cross before it qualifies for list seats in a region? Timrollpickering 10:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Threshold for Scottish Parliament 

message: Hi - I started working on this page because I was looking for a summary of the results for the 2007 local government election
While getting the missing figures together as best I could, I've noticed that this article is getting very long, and there are considerable overlaps with other pages: I wonder if it would be a good time to do some restructuring work?
For instance, would it be better to use this page to cover:
* History of elections in Scotland (changing electorate etc)
* Quick summary of levels, dates, frequency, electoral systems 
Currently, the situation seems to be as follows:
Descriptions of instutition                                                                                                                                                	Summary of results                                                                                                                                                         	Details of individual elections
European Parliament                                                                                                                                                        	Elections in the European UnionCovers 1999, 2004 and 2009 but no summary of 1979-1994                                                                                      	Scotland (European Parliament constituency) Has links to individual constituencies for results 1979-1995
UK Parliament (1707-present)                                                                                                                                               	Elections in Scotland#UK Parliament                                                                                                                                        	
Scottish Parliament (1997-present)                                                                                                                                         	Embedded in Scottish Parliament and alsoElections in Scotland#Scottish Parliament                                                                                          	Scottish Parliament election, 2007Scottish Parliament election, 2003Scottish Parliament election, 1999
Subdivisions of Scotland andLocal government in Scotland                                                                                                                   	Elections in Scotland#Local councils and alsoEmbedded in Local government in ScotlandIncludes 2007 and 2003 results, but not 1995 or 1999                                  	Scottish council elections, 2007(Includes links to individual councils' results)No detailed summary for 2003, 1999 or 1995 elections?
Community councils has sections on England, Scotland and Wales. The Scottish section is by far the biggest. CCs are listed in [[List of community council areas in Scotland	Community councils has sections on England, Scotland and Wales. The Scottish section is by far the biggest. CCs are listed in [[List of community council areas in Scotland	Community councils has sections on England, Scotland and Wales. The Scottish section is by far the biggest. CCs are listed in [[List of community council areas in Scotland
* There also needs to be space for other elections such as the two devolution referendums, the General Assembly, Hereditary Peers for the House of Lords (?) etc)
Other thoughts:
* Maybe this page should act as an index page with links to the pages which hold substantial content?
* It should focus on elections since the devolution settlement in 1999 and local government reorganisation in 1994 (at least to start with!)
* It would be best to split description of the institution from election results
* The page could merge with Electoral systems in Scotland
* There could be more crosslinks with and other items in the Politics of Scotland series
I'm not in a position to take this all on (and don't have the specialist knowledge), but I'd be happy to help with restructuring these pages (if a consensus could be found)
Any thoughts? 
--Spartakan (talk) 21:11, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving length and structure 

message: The election pages have been tampered with during the last couple of years to rewrite hitory -- and in a non-trivial way. 
In several election results of the 1950s, two parties which were rivals at the time, plus several independent candidates - all of whom stood against one another - have been retrospectively conflated as "Conservative Party" (aka Tory): this is a gross falsification for these reasons:
1. Before the 1960s, no such parliamentary party as "Conservative" stood in parliamentary elections in Scotland. Yet it has been made to appear that several parties were (upper-case-C) Conservatives because they have been retrospectively lumped with them. 
2. Today's Liberal Democrats actually shared a coalition government with the Conservatives -- by this absurd standard, they too must be lumped with the conservatives since 2010. which is of course absurd: no  less so than what's been done. 
3. The Unionist parties of 1910-c1960 Scotland were splinter groups of the Liberal Party (ie Whigs, not Tories). They had no formal connection with the Conservatives: this came in the decade AFTER these elections when some Unionist parties of Scotland merged with the Conservative party of England to become the Conservative & UNionist party. 
4. The policy that the Unionists (Liberal Unionist & National Unionist, plus some independent individuals) had split on in 1910 was Home Rule for Scotland (and pre-independence Ireland). This was not a fundamental policy for either the Conservatives or the Liberals at UK level.
5. This falsification has serious consequences: BBC pundit, following the recent 2016 election , have been misrepresenting events within living memory - patently because they have relied on the misinformation in these pages.
6. Elsewhere in wikipedia is the more detailed and genuine history: unless that too has been tampered with.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.185.146.18 (talk) 19:13, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  anachronistic falsification 

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message: First time on this article and notice there is no by election results for Westminster elections, obviously to create one huge list going back nearly 200 hundred years would not be helpful but was wondering if we should have a subsection for current session to record by election results? After this years GE we would start a similar subsection for 2024 result
Any input welcome Soosider3 (talk) 12:47, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  By Election results