Talk:Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election

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Page is way too big[edit]

This needs to be split if it's going to have all of those tables in there. My computer can't handle it. Dylpickle2k (talk) 22:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The navbox at the bottom seems to be broken now - it looks like the number of references is blowing the computation limits. Perhaps a split by region? Blenge Hackett (talk) 05:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dylpickle2k and Blenge Hackett. This page has got incredibly long so I have solved this problem by moving some sections around:

This page should be functional now. Moondragon21 (talk) 22:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Still issues - the last 200 references and the navbox aren't displaying, with the error "The time allocated for running scripts has expired." Blenge Hackett (talk) 04:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sections from 2024 United Kingdom general election have been moved into this article. Candidates in the English regions are now at new pages.

Moondragon21 (talk) 3:10, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

    • I think this was a strange decision to make. Firstly, it's strange to have a page titled 'Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election' which doesn't actually list the candidates, only including a lot of information that is not particularly relevant for anyone looking for a list of candidates (including people who are retiring i.e. not candidates), secondly the information was haphazardly copied over to the country-specific general election pages that it didn't bother to include any of the explanatory information (bold means incumbent standing for re-election, italics means standing down), and thirdly moving candidates to the England-specific general election article because this one has become too unwieldy is counterproductive, since 543/650 constituencies are in England, so you're just moving the problem to a different article without resolving it.

Surely the correct approach would be either to keep all the list of candidates in this article by itself, or at the very least without the list of incumbent MPs standing down (which definitely should be a separate article), or to have separate articles for '2024 United Kingdom general election in London', '2024 United Kingdom general election in North West England' etc. with all the candidates listed so that all of the national/regional breakdowns of the election contain similar comparable amounts of information. The way its currently been done seems like the worst of both worlds? MoreofaGlorifiedPond,Really... (talk) 15:48, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Labour candidates[edit]

The page https://vote.labour.org.uk/results tracks all the Labour candidates selected for the 632 constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland. Moondragon21 (talk) 16:56, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Labour candidates[edit]

The page https://vote.labour.org.uk/results tracks all the Labour candidates selected for the 632 constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland. Moondragon21 (talk) 16:56, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General election 4 July[edit]

Now the 2024 United Kingdom general election has been called the tables should now soon be filled up completely. As this page was too long and not functioning properly the tables have been moved to the following pages.

Moondragon21 (talk) 19:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Realise my comment aboive is probably more appropriate here now.
I think this was a strange decision to make. Firstly, it's strange to have a page titled 'Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election' which doesn't actually list the candidates, only including a lot of information that is not particularly relevant for anyone looking for a list of candidates (including people who are retiring i.e. not candidates), secondly the information was haphazardly copied over to the country-specific general election pages that it didn't bother to include any of the explanatory information (bold means incumbent standing for re-election, italics means standing down), and thirdly moving candidates to the England-specific general election article because this one has become too unwieldy is counterproductive, since 543/650 constituencies are in England, so you're just moving the problem to a different article without resolving it.
Surely the correct approach would be either to keep all the list of candidates in this article by itself, or at the very least without the list of incumbent MPs standing down (which definitely should be a separate article), or to have separate articles for '2024 United Kingdom general election in London', '2024 United Kingdom general election in North West England' etc. with all the candidates listed so that all of the national/regional breakdowns of the election contain similar comparable amounts of information. The way its currently been done seems like the worst of both worlds? MoreofaGlorifiedPond,Really... (talk) 15:51, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Candidates are now by distinguished by English region. Moondragon21 (talk) 03:05, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jamie Wallis[edit]

Is Jamie Wallis standing again? In October 2023, he stated that he wasn't contesting a seat in Wales again but may look for one elsewhere in the country. However, both Guido Fawkes and Sky News have him listed on their run throughs of MPs standing down at the next election (both sources published and updated to 24 May 2024). Should we list him as standing down? It's unlikely he'll be a candidate elsewhere IMO. Thanks Jkaharper (talk) 21:40, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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