Talk:2024 British Columbia general election
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Results subject to change, absentee ballots counted today
editElections BC will be releasing the final results after absentee ballots are counted. Currently Surrey-Guildford riding has cons leading by 12 votes, down from over a hundred before 250 or so mail in ballots were counted. There's about 230 absentee ballots left to count in that riding, it is entirely possible that the seat will flip NDP and the results will be a majority government for the NDP. Not that it really matters, but perhaps we should not be making it seem like the current results are the final results in the article? Chuckstablers (talk) 16:38, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Lead need trimming.
editThere are too many information in the lead which is either presented poorly or are completely unnecessary.
Especially 2020 results mentioned in the first para is totally confusing. Manasbose (talk) 14:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Not actually the longest delay between election and result
editBit of an odd situation here. We have an article in the National Post that says "Not since 1952 have British Columbians gone to the polls and then entered an extended fugue state of not knowing who won". The Post is a reliable source, but this claim is actually incorrect. The 2017 election had a longer wait than 2024: there, the time between election day and the counting of absentee/mail-in ballot counts was two weeks (in 2024, it was one). 2017 was also an election that was so close that those ballots could have conceivably changed the results (though they didn't), so it's not just an academic point, 2017 had that same "fugue". And if we consider time from election to the formation of government, then it's an even longer wait.The full story is in the article's #Aftermath section. So should this be removed? — Kawnhr (talk) 18:05, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think the point being made was that the seat count did change between the initial and final counts, unlike in 2017 where the delay was inconsequential. 1952 was probably an unfair comparison, though, as a completely different voting system was implemented for that election which really caused delays. Perhaps that could be made more explicit in the comment being made.Raellerby (talk) 14:44, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Results Table
editHello all,
I think the results table is pretty cluttered and some information on it isn't of much use – for example, do we really need to show the numerical difference in votes for each party compared to 2020? Surely, a percentage point difference is sufficient and gives the most crucial info. The red/green bars showing percentage point difference, I find, are also quite distracting especially on a smaller screen that can't display as much info unless you scroll. Should we simplify the table? (I propose reverting back to something like the design used prior to December 2.)