Talk:2012 United Kingdom local elections

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City Mayor Referendums

The Government have announced today that the 11 referendums of city mayors will be held concurrently with the local elections. I've added a mention on this in this article as it seems worth at least noting them, and waiting to see whether it is worth creating a whole different article on the subject.Spiritofsussex (talk) 19:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This ties in with a thought I've had about the Police Commissioner elections; namely, we need to decide *now* whether to have individual articles or one big super article for all. To have eleven separate elections on one page seems excessive, but in "the court of Wiki opinion" can we sell the notability of them? Worded correctly, a beefy article with eleven different contests could work - "Eleven concurrent referenda happened on this day, here's the collated results and here's the individual ones." What do you prefer? And should the same solution be used for the Police Commissioner elections? doktorb _words^deeds 21:31, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose the one difference between these referendums and the PCC elections is that the former will happen once, whilst the latter is scheduled to happen every four years. For these referendums, my gut instinct is to have a single article that covers all 11, something like - 'English mayoral referendums, 2012' - that list the result and any key information of each location in turn, as I can't see there being enough information to produce detailed enough individual articles - although if one referendum has something particularly important happen in it, then a page could always be created for that specific one, and be linked to from the overview article. Then depending on if there are any yes votes in these referendums, the resulting mayoral elections will presumably have their own articles as with current mayoral elections, with links to these pages from the annual local election articles.

In terms of PCC elections - the overview page that currenly exists will presumably act in a similar fashion to the annual local election results - noting the 41 different elections and the person/party who has won. In terms of individual articles for each election, I'd think in principle that it is a good idea - 41 elections and background information on one page would lead to ridiculous overcrowding, and a page that would go on for miles! So, I'd say the individual election articles like - 'Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner election, 2012' or 'West Merica Police and Crime Commissioner election, 2012' should exist, with things like candidate information, main campaigning issues, results etc. in detail on those pages.Spiritofsussex (talk) 20:41, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

mayorality

Is that a word? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 09:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Now ask that in the tone that New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked the 2008 Republican National Convention whether Barack Obama's former position of community organizer is "a real job".—— Shakescene (talk) 06:49, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is :-) 94.9.107.169 (talk) 14:35, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mayoralty is the more common spelling in the U.S., although I have no idea how often it's pronounced "mayorality" either for euphony, from seeing a non-existent "i", or by analogy with "principality" rather than "royalty" (cf. "Febuary", a regionalism used by even Walter Cronkite of Missouri, or "heighth", which is I think is a historical word or pronunciation still retained in many informal dialects). —— Shakescene (talk) 06:49, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Elections

Lots of these coming up, everyone is more than welcome to expand the articles I've started. Although it seems to beyond the comprehension of user:Doktorbuk. Lugnuts (talk) 13:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Results

The whole 'Results' section is partial. If it can be written up impartially, it should be returned. Marplesmustgo (talk) 22:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]