Talk:2012 Papua New Guinean general election

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Bill Skate[edit]

First off well done to the people who've worked on this page. There is a reference to Bill Skate in the article. He's been dead for about seven years so I don't think he entered into an alliance with Peter O'Neill. The link just says that Skate was a member of PNC. Tigerman2005 (talk) 05:32, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Elections[edit]

Party results are now up on the PNG electoral commission website. If anyone wants to take a crack at a table (there are a LOT of parties!) go for it otherwise I'll try and get around to it ASAP. The final results could be incorporated into the current stuff about O'Neill and others in their individual constituencies. The Website also lists all the elected MPs which I don't propose to list unless there is some established wikipedia policy/tradition of doing so. Tigerman2005 (talk) 05:32, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've been bold and added a few details about the results. Please let me know if there is any disagreement. I also intend to reword the schedule section to reflect what happened (I'm guessing this part was writting before the election took place) and some more detail about the nature of the election (amount of seats etc). Tigerman2005 (talk) 04:28, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think it might be helpful to provide the names of the parties, rather than their acronyms (if this information can be found). Just a suggestion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.130.212.122 (talk) 02:12, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to find out the information about the party names on the electoral commision's website: http://www.pngec.gov.pg/. I have changed the results table accordingly.

174.130.212.122 (talk) 02:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet. Thanks mate. That was a bridge too far for me at the time! Tigerman2005 (talk) 00:28, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]