Talk:Results of the 2022 Australian federal election (House of Representatives)

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Results table[edit]

Hi all, I noticed that the results table was recently changed from the full list with all parties to the same one on the main federal election page. I've reverted this, as the point of this page is to show the full results, with all minor parties. Otherwise, this page may as well not exist, because it provides no extra information than the main page. I apologise for any inconvenience caused by reverting this Quinby (talk) 15:26, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the results page is intended to show the full list - see Results of the 2019 Australian federal election (House of Representatives). Eventually this page will also include the equivalent table for each of the states & territories, but that can wait until the figures are final. Find bruce (talk) 22:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Articles shouldn't be statistical databases. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a "summary of knowledge". The people interested in knowing how much the irrelevant parties which got 0.something % of the vote got should be provided with a link to reliable sources about this, not rewarded with a table which contains this information which is useless for 99% of readers. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:12, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Change in seats[edit]

My edit was reverted with the explanation that the column for change in seats in based on the previous election, ignoring changes that have occurred since then. This is not at all obvious and I think readers would assume, like I did, that it's the change from before the election, which I think is a better way to do it. I think this needs to be clarified or changed. Whether that means changing all previous similar pages or not doesn't matter. MClay1 (talk) 09:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The column swing can only refer to the previous election & it would be misleading to have 2 columns referring to different periods for comparison. The article is about elections & Kelly was never elected as a member of United Australia. This is consistent with the way its dealt with by the reliable sources, eg AEC and ABC. I would have no difficulty with a note in the heading stating something like "change in seats is compared to the previous election". Find bruce (talk) 21:45, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes[edit]

Hi, I have noticed that we have infoboxes for states and territories, featuring leader photos etc. using the 'infobox election' format but at the top of the article, we have a table instead, using 'infobox legislative election'. This is a completly different styling to the other pages (main article and senate results), so I am curious if there is any objection with updating it to match the other articles, likely by also combining the Liberal, Liberal National and National votes into one (to keep it to 2 lines only).

Also, regardless of this decision, there is an inconsistency between the South Australia specific infobox and the general one, as the SA one says that Centre Alliance has no leader, but the main one names Sharkie as the leader (I believe that they technically have no leader, but am willing to be corrected as I am not 100% sure, and at the same time, it does somewhat improve clarity so would be understandable if intentional) Kermanbob (talk) 11:17, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Use of 'horseshoe' graphic[edit]

Echoing the comments made on the 'Next Australian Federal Election' discussion page. In the results section, why is a consensus style parliamentary diagram used, as well as the adversarial? We have a Westminster system and the horseshoe isn't relevant for us us it? DirectorDirectorDirector (talk) 13:23, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]