Talk:2023 Thai general election

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Reference (CIA World Factbook) needs "Retrieved on ..."

The reference is not saying on which date it was retrieved. See "General elections are expected to be held in Thailand no later than 23 March 2023". Reference: "Thailand CIA World Factbook". 89.8.101.194 (talk) 11:20, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
The wiki article has been changed (and "Retrieved ..." has been added). 89.8.131.52 (talk) 12:48, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Number of seats required to override Senate

We should also include the number of seats required to override the Thai Senate alongside the number of seats required to achieve majority as the Thai Senate also play a role in choosing the next prime minister.--Hu753 (talk) 09:57, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Leader names and images

Are the images of party leaders and their names in the infobox really that necessary? Why don't we just wait for PM candidates to be officially announced first? -- ILikelargeFries (talk) 14:52, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

The candidate images are standard in election pages.

But I see your point, I think we should withhold these until they are officially filed.

Also, this will become problematic as some parties like Pheu Thai will have multiple candidates and we should not editorialize by picking 1 "main" candidate baconbits (talk) 10:08, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Super Poll

Sociological research Super Poll does not look reliable. Previously, they were not given in the article; they are also not used in the Thai Wikipedia. A lot of questions arise from people to this organization (https://www.google.ru/search?ie=UTF-8&q=Super%20Poll#lrd=0x30e29f1f68a6170d:0xbab7911303330409,1). I think we should remove the survey of this service. — Пэйнчик (talk) 14:01, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Totally agree, Super Poll is not reliable. Many Thai political journalists, professors, or even people in general have been criticizing that this poll always has a bias towards the current governing parties. The company also holds more than 30 contracts with the government and recieved millions of the budget each year. https://www.bangkokbiznews.com/politics/979585 NELLA32 (talk) 10:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Seats needed

@Aréat: What are the needs to put "seats needed" and ridiculous green arrow notions since there is no way seats needed values go below zero? I search general election articles in UK, Australia and Canada and have not yet found any with seats needed anyway. Horus (talk) 16:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

The majority needed is 251. A party which only had 10 seats in 2019 need 241 more seats, while a party which had 200 only need 51 more.--Aréat (talk) 16:46, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Still, there is no need to use the green arrows because even if a party already gets more than 251 seats does not mean it needs fewer than 0 seats so the whole arrow signs are ridiculous. Also, I see that you did not disagree that there are no "seats needed" in other articles. --Horus (talk) 10:24, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Election uncertainty

Hi all, I've just added a section about election uncertainty.

This section is important in this context because many Thai elections have been delayed or cancelled in the past. baconbits (talk) 10:23, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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PM candidates

Parties may submit up to 3 candidates, and some parties will definitely submit 3.

In the infobox, I suggest we include all 3 candidates, even if we can only use 1 portrait.

This is a unique situation not seen in other countries' elections since PM candidacy is separate from being an MP (see the PM candidacy section of the article) baconbits (talk) 11:59, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Even if some parties submit 3 candidates, in reality, many could still assume who is the "real" candidate for that party. Putting 3 names in the infobox is simply too long. --Horus (talk) 14:18, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

How can we assume which is the "real" candidate without editorializing? baconbits (talk) 12:16, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

The first of each party’s list? The name that is actually put forward at the PM vote? These do not need interpretation. I would say it is the same thought process as in the 2019 election article. Horus (talk) 08:10, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I think your suggestion of using the #1 name in the PM candidates list makes sense.

We can also add a little [note] next to each name in the infobox with a link to the other 2 names if necessary. This also won't take up space. baconbits (talk) 08:38, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Is there precedence in any other article? I could not think of any and see no point in starting a new format here. --Horus (talk) 14:21, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I think Baconbits might be referring to the {{efn}} template, which already is used in the article. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:38, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm referring to the practice of putting multiple candidates in the infobox (even in footnote templates). Since the 2019 election article does not do that, I see no point in starting it here. --Horus (talk) 06:57, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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Parties in infobox

I suggest the last party in the infobox should be UTN. The other smaller parties could be grouped as the list is incomplete anyway. Horus (talk) 16:29, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Election turnout

Two sources cite the EC chairman saying the turnout was 75.22%.[1][2] It's twice been changed in the infobox to 75.20%. Is there a more reliable source for that? —Bagumba (talk) 09:59, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

75.20 has been changed to 75.22 by another editor as "rv unsourced number"—Bagumba (talk) 14:38, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Bar chart

@Number 57: The bar chart has precedence (as in 2019 United Kingdom general election). Hopefully you could propose the idea to make it less "awful" rather than just simply remove it. Horus (talk) 10:41, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Just because something awful is done elsewhere, doesn't mean it should be repeated. It's completely unnecessary and just gets in the way. Number 57 10:51, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

It conveys information, that's why I put it. There're a lot of charts (bar, pie, graph) out there and yet, from what I saw, this is the one you decided to get rid of. --Horus (talk) 10:59, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Most additions to the an article will convey information. However, I can't see what use this addition is (the seat image already showed the seat proportions), plus on top of that, it's highly disruptive to the article flow. And I can assure you this is nothing personal, I delete these types of graphs on a regular basis. Number 57 11:38, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

How about you point to one consensus that it should not be there? If there is none, let's start one without delay. Otherwise, it is still a personal preference. --Horus (talk) 05:35, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

There was this discussion that was 3–1 in favour of excluding them. Number 57 07:55, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

@Horus: I hadn't participated in the discussion linked above, but I sure agree those bar charts are the worst way to display election results. The lenght is distorted by the content below it, as it expand to at least fit the letters or numbers. Look for example how the 11 seats of "others" are nearly as big as the 41 seats for PPRP instead of one fourth of it, or how the 1.56% of PCC is half of 12.63% of UTN instead of one tenth of it. What's the point of a visual display if it is visually completely wrong ? --Aréat (talk) 13:02, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I've tried to remedy this exact problem by using abbreviations instead of full party names. Perhaps, smaller parties should be included in "Others" so they don't look superficially wide. I do see that there's some merits in adding this bar chart. (By the way, the discussion linked above is about the {{bar box}} template, which is different from this one.) It helps to easily visualise a majority for a combination of parties, especially in the absence of {{Parliament diagram}} working. Or maybe we could add the parliament hemicycle diagram to the article as an SVG file. —twotwofourtysix^{(talk || edits)} 13:17, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I do intend to eventually add the seat diagram, which is enough in my opinion to do this. --Aréat (talk) 14:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Vote percent in legislative infobox

Why is the percentage of the vote listed in the legislative infobox at the top of the page based on party-list votes? Since only 100 seats are elected by party-list vote, wouldn't it be better to list the constituency vote percentages? S maps (talk) 15:36, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

A nation wide constituency in which voters can choose among all parties and not just the ones fielding candidats in their local constituency, and without the bia of strategic voting, that's the more representative system of the vote.--Aréat (talk) 20:53, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

+1 to what Aréat said. Number 57 02:49, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Error in opinion poll citations

In the table found under this section, the penultimate row (18-20 December 2019) cites the Move Forward Party having the lead with 30.27%. It cites a NIDA PDF, however, upon viewing the PDF, it does not say the Move Forward Party had 30.27% - translated, it says the Future Forward Party did. Is this an error? Can someone check on this? I thought the Future Forward party had already dissolved by this point. Maximus Pinpoint (talk) 16:26, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Future Forward was dissolved in February 2020. Remember, it was what triggered the 2020 protests. --Paul_012 (talk) 19:48, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Ah. That makes more sense.

But, if the 30.27% belonged to Future Forward, why is it under the Move Forward column? Maximus Pinpoint (talk) 20:15, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Move Forward is regarded as the direct successor of Future Forward, so I think it's reasonable (as opposed to inserting a column for Future Forward that's blank but for the first row). Maybe adjust the column heading to mention Future Forward, or an explanatory footnote? --Paul_012 (talk) 22:26, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

A footnote sounds good to me! Thank you. Maximus Pinpoint (talk) 23:09, 24 August 2023 (UTC)