Tɛmplet:Election box candidate with party link/doc

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Module:Political party

Usage

Party links

A more sophisticated effect can be achieved using Template:Election box candidate with party link. This adds a link to the candidate's party and also adds a color tab to the left of the candidate. For example:

For example:

 {{Election box begin | title=[[United Kingdom general election, 2005|General Election 2005]]: Strangford}}
 {{Election box candidate with party link
   |party      = Labour Party (UK)
   |candidate  = Tony Blair
   |votes      = 9,999
   |percentage = 50.0
   |change     = +10.0
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link
   |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
   |candidate  = Michael Howard
   |votes      = 9,999
   |percentage = 50.0
   |change     = +10.0
 }}
 {{Election box end}}

Will create this:

General Election 2005: Strangford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Blair	9,999	50.0	+10.0
	Conservative	Michael Howard	9,999	50.0	+10.0

However, this does rely on some additional setup for each party. See below for more details.

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TemplateData for Election box candidate with party link

A more sophisticated effect in election results tables can be achieved using this template. This adds a link to the candidate's party and also adds a color tab to the left of the candidate. See Election box begin and Election box end. See this template's page for a new party.

Template parameters
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Party	`party`	The article name of the relevant party Example Labour Party (UK)	Page name	required
Candidate name	`candidate`	no description	String	required
Number of votes	`votes`	no description Example 9,999	Number	required
% vote share	`percentage`	no description Example 50.0	Number	required
Vote share change	`change`	Number of percentage points more/less than the previous election. Example +10.0	String	required

Party set up

It is necessary to do some a little bit of setup for each party in the election. This involves creating an entry in Module:Political party. See the documentation for Module:Political party for details.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

adr
agent
bday
birthplace
category
country-name
deathdate
deathplace
extended-address
family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
honorific-suffix
label
locality
n
nickname
note
org
role
url
vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.