Talk:List of United States Senate election results by state

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Section size for List of United States Senate election results by state (9 sections)
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(Top)	902	902
Legend	2,200	2,200
Table	193,674	193,674
Analytical tables	62	47,573
Results	20,346	20,346
States across party systems	27,165	27,165
See also	249	249
References	147	147
Notes	112	112
Total	244,857	244,857

Special elections[edit]

Why aren't special elections included? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:241:300:C930:D8CD:7175:298:FF47 (talk) 23:11, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Because they are sporadic and don't provide any insight.—GoldRingChip 12:41, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- What about ones that don't take place simultaneously with regular elections, such as the 2014 United States Senate special election in Hawaii? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.110.217.186 (talk) 22:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Split[edit]

428260 bytes as of this revision. A split by time-period would be nice. FoxyGrampa75 (talk) 20:24, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I personally like having all of the data on the same page. What's the Wikipedia policy for this type of thing? Orser67 (talk) 22:38, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Orser67: I figure the next best thing is WP:SIZERULE. It's just a guideline but I think it could work. FoxyGrampa75 (talk) 23:47, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"These rules of thumb apply only to readable prose and not to wiki markup size". I see absolutely no need to split this and make readers try to splice together two article; a vast majority of the source text size is table formatting, piped links, and {Party shading/Republican} {Party shading/Democratic}, which do not affect readability. Reywas92^Talk 00:10, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're misquoting the guidelines; that clause applies to only one of the criteria for splitting; there are two others. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:43, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

At 428,389 bytes this article too big by far, and needs to be split into several parts. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:43, 16 September 2019 (UTC).[reply]