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Proposed deletion of City of Chester by-election, 1940

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Unremarkable special election.

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Project Award

	The Coveted Cornish Pasty for information on politics in the county
	We would like to recognise your recent work demonstrating very high scholarly diligence in the UKPC project. Adam37 (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

1983 General Election

The BBC are showing the coverage from the 1983 election on 1 April on BBC Parliament. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darrenjolley (talk • contribs) 17:46, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for April 9

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UK Election result formatting

Hi LT, I have just undone your last edit on the Peterborough page where you changed the results shown from one format to the other. I did this for two reasons; Firstly, I prefer the individual format and secondly because this format is I think far more common. It is not ideal that there are two different formats and perhaps at some stage in the future, this issue may be addressed. I'm not sure if the wikipedia UK elections project has a policy on this subject but I doubt it. Graemp (talk) 15:21, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish election result formatting

Hi Lit, I see you have started on Scotland. I have followed the use of the label Unionist Party (Scotland) rather than Unionist Party (UK) for results from 1912-1965. It comes out as a different shade of blue, which is nice. Graemp (talk) 20:25, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of John Appleby (Liberal Democrat (UK))

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Nomination of John Appleby (politician) for deletion

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Deletion discussion about Klaus: The Devil's Primate

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Thanks, Versace1608 (Talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Constituency results 1950-73

Hi LitDem, I've been doing some systematic trawling around to see where Devon constituency results 1918-45 need to be added and have spotted some 1950-1970 gaps that I thought you might want to put on your to-do list; Torquay, Plymouth's Drake and Sutton. Graemp (talk) 08:31, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate forenames 1951-1970

My main source for adding candidate forenames is The Times House of Commons series which also include the election results for each constituency. The results for 1950-70 are available on-line here; http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/marked_up/ This source is the source used by Richard Kimber's site http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/edates.htm which I think is the source you are using. I mention this because you might want to use this source instead as it provides you with the forenames for 1951-1970. Graemp (talk) 10:47, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

National Liberal

Hi LD, just a heads-up with regard to any election tables between 1947 and 1966 that you create. Rather than use the label National Liberal Party (UK, 1931), you can now use the label National Liberal Party (UK, 1947) which I have just created. The difference is that the 1931 version displays the shortname Liberal National and the 1947 version displays the shortname National Liberal. This enables us to be more historically accurate with our descriptions. There is no change in colour. Graemp (talk) 17:09, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bridlington (UK Parliament constituency)

Hi Lit, I see you are in the process of adding results here and notice that you are currently adding in reverse order. Given this is a historical constituency, you may want to flip your additions to preserve the chronological sequence. Cheers. 12:43, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Houghton-le-Spring (UK Parliament constituency)

Hi Literal Democrat, I have inserted the Houghton-le-Spring (UK Parliament constituency) 1920s election results for you. It would help enormously, when you are adding result for 1950-1970 if you included the full names of the candidates from here http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/marked_up/ This would save me the trouble. Thanks. Graemp (talk) 10:58, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Brighton and Hove City Council election, 2011

Please stop re-adding the table your version of the council composition table, it contains errors and is in the wrong place. I have corrected the table and moved it to Brighton and Hove City Council elections. The election results articles are for the election results for that block of elections only not bye-elections or defection commentaries, those go on the Brighton and Hove City Council elections page. Sport and politics (talk) 10:13, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

April 2015

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