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is describing various seats as "considered vulnerable to (re)capture" weaseltalkin'? 'cause, some winner is going to come through and sow a bunch of those reference needed tags, where you have to go back and find out who considered it vulnerable, and why if it's "considered" vulnerable, why we can't say "is vulnerable". I was just wondering if people had any idea about the language of these paragraphs? Rocklaw ( talk) 20:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new here, and interested in helping make this page better. There are two things I want to talk about: 1. I would really like to have all 70 current electorates profiled (can we get maps?) before too long, maybe Easter? (of which I will gladly do a lot of the work) 2. that I would like to turn the 'marginal seats' section into a 'notable races' section, so as to avoid oversignifying electorate results (they're not super important any more)non-marginal seats. I guess, just nuts and bolts. So, yeah. hi. Rocklaw ( talk) 00:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
what counts as a snap election? If 1984 was a snap then so was 2002, right? In which case, they aren't that rare any more. My point when I renovated the opening paragraph was to say off year snaps are ridiculously rare. I will follow it up by adding that we shouldn't get too hung up on presedence or convention, because those sorts of things are just made to be broken, especially while we're still feeling our way around the new(ish) electoral system. Kripto 21:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
I think we should thrash out a theoretical definiton of a snap election with no particular year in mind, since it is a somewhat nebulous concept. Then we can apply it with total immunity friom prosecution. I open the bidding with, one that happens before the start of spring (ca. September 1) in a usual election year. Kripto 00:37, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
John Key doesn't need to win 13 seats to govern. What bollocks. If whoever did that doesn't understand the New Zealand electoral syste and is still using FPP lingo to describe it, could they at least have the good grace not to edit pages about it? 121.73.11.43 ( talk) 23:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
The current LAB+PRO government is always ten seats short of government using this "fact" let's call it "Holden's Law". With NZF+UTD, this number falls to two short, which is why the Greens abstain on sup&conf. This means that nobody has a majority in the house - to govern, in effect, you just need more seats than the other guy. MMP's dirty little secret, and the one that I reckon the future election will blow the lid off is - the idea of a group of people being obviously and demonstrably "the government" is dead. I've always held the sneaking suspicion that the centre-right haven't quite grasped this idea, which explains (not completely, but pretty well) why they keep getting beaten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.11.43 ( talk) 00:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
We shouldn't remove a section because of one guys consiparcy theory! National did need to win 13 seats to gewt a MJAORITY and I think it should be included —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.35.18 ( talk) 22:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Ten bucks says this: not one vote will be swayed by a year-old election funding scandal. In fact, if you were to ask a panel of experts what's going to be the major theme of a campaign that most likely won't be waged until next spring, they'd say they couldn't tell you, given that leaders don't like to play their policy hands too far out. In the light of that, I would suggest that we shouldn't talk about issues until closer to the time, and leave the article as a sort of skeletal look at the mechanics of not the campaign, but the electoral process itself. Kripto 22:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Taito Field is going to retire in 2006? Since when?
Speculation is highly unencyclopediac. An alien could burst out of his stomach (this is unlikely, I grant); he could be deselected (which is more likely), etc, etc. But, one thing, if we're going to speculate in lieu of any good information which isn't due until probably the middle of next year, then what about the possibility of resignations of MPs in order to stand for various mayoralties? Kripto 22:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone find a better free use image? Brian | (Talk) 04:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
1. The electorate boundaries aren't of notable interest - we're stuck an an FPP hangover when we say that a close call in Otaki is noteworthy. You might as well say that Nick Smith's majority in Nelson is a sign of things to come. Where was the party vote the closest? 2. seriously, take the election fnuding thing down. You're soothsaying. You're trying to guess what the campaign will be about. Don't do that. 3. Only list the people who will retire. There's a rumour (sure I just started it, but all the same) that Paul Swain will ascend to heaven on a golden chariot too, but I take that as seriosuly as I do stories of Pete Hodgson retiring - I've heard stories of PH quitting since the day he was elected. Don't speculate. 4. Where did the picture of John Key go? Kripto 03:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
hey, I count 67 opinion polls taken since the 2005 election. That's a lot, and read as a continuous bunch of numbers, does have some semblence of validity as an indicator of trends. I don't mind updating the polling chart, that's not what bugs me, it's more...if I put all 67 polls up, and maybe a graph I don't really know how to make, (screencap?) would it be better to have this on a new page? 67 table rows is a bit big. Kripto 03:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't like the way this article appears to treat Opinion polling for the New Zealand general election, 2008. It should be discussed here as well, using the main article template rather than pointing to another article only. Does anyone disagree? With candidates, it's different of course, but we can certainly give a quick summary of opinion polling. Richard001 ( talk) 00:38, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
The infobox is able to handle more than two parties; I suggest that instead of summarily removing content, the existing information should be expanded. -- Lholden ( talk) 00:39, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I disagree that more than two parties should go in the infobox. One of the two main parties is almost certain to form the majority party in the government after the next election. Several of the minor parties may become part of a coalition, but it is extremely unlikely at this point that any other party will gain the substantial share of the vote that the two major ones can expect. There is a natural "cut-off" point to display the two major parties; the next natural cut-off point would be to include all those parties currently in parliament (10 of them, I believe), and an argument could be made for others which have some chance of winning a seat or to take it to extremes, every party and independent candidate standing.- gadfium 01:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems that the infobox supports a maximum of five parties. The current arrangement has the five parties who gained the most votes in the last election in the order of percentage of votes gained. If we're going to display five parties, then this is the correct selection and order.- gadfium 03:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
After the election some MPs will obviously be not returning so should a new article be created, Retired MPs from the 48th New Zealand Parliament or similar. Then those MPs pages could be deleted. Margaret Wilson should keep her page and maybe former Ministers or MPs with a story i.e David Benson-Pope. Any thoughts or name ideas. Tshiels1 ( talk) 06:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
It doesn't disappear at all. There is longstanding precedent that anyone ever elected to a federal state parliament, even if for a month, is notable, and I would be very surprised if any such article was ever deleted at AfD. Rebecca ( talk) 11:56, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Don't delete them - if they are deleted there will be a lot of red names in the past "xxxx general election" pages (all written) and in the "xxth Parliament" pages (some written) Hugo999 ( talk) 23:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Why do you have to go to a different article to get a summary of opinion polls? Anyone heard of summary style? Richard001 ( talk) 06:52, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
The section This election is about trust makes the article unbalanced and lacking neutrality. The NZF stuff is largely factual but the National stuff is very slanted. What to do: Remove? Greatly moderate? Add anti-Labour stuff to balance the anti-National stuff? I don't favour the last - I'd rather see more substance on policies than this sort of sloganeering and insinuations. Nurg ( talk) 01:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
The whole section needs a rewrite or dumping if it stays as is. It should be about this election but Paintergate was two elections ago - I can understand why there's an editwar on this section. "Trust" is an issue raised in electioneering by the Labour Party, a neutral view of the election issue is all that is needed, and Winston Peter's donation problems (as an election issue) should have a separate heading. Fanx ( talk) 06:41, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
I removed the entire section entitled "Trust" as it dealt with political issues from the 2002 election. I think someone simply cut and pasted this section from an old source in order to make Labour look bad (which, unfortunately for this election they needed no help doing; and please don't bollocks me - I support Labour! Paintergate was something that Winston Peters took to town and capitalized on in the 2002 polling. It had nothing to do with the incoming Nationals coalition, nor in my view with the 2008 election. 72.177.63.203 ( talk) 21:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I hope that New Zealanders (and other supporters) will demand that their 2008 general election candidates images are placed on the front page featured article, to offset any apparent American bias that has been made for the November 3 featured article. NorthernThunder ( talk) 02:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
The infobox stats given in some kiwi MPs articles are misleading. Take Rodney Hide and Pita Sharples for examples. In the "Majority" line, Hide is given 15,251 and 42.62%. Hide's majority over Richard Worth was actually a shade over 3000. The percentage figure of course is his share of the total number of electorate votes and is nothing to do with a majority figure. Similar situation over at Sharples. He got fractionally over 2000 more electorate votes than Tamihere. Maybe if the word "Majority" was changed to "Votes" it would fix the problem. As the box is probably a template I'd ask someone with more expertise than me to do it. That would be less laborious than going to each electorate's returns, assessing the individual majorities, and then amending the infobpxes. Kaiwhakahaere ( talk) 01:14, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
This new para points out (briefly) that you neet to think about first the size of parliament (overhang) and then the number of seats needed to get a majority with MMP Hugo999 ( talk) 13:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I've just added a few images from voting today to the commons . I also took a few others today and can upload any of these if anyone wants them - SimonLyall ( talk) 02:53, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
From a non-New Zealander perspective, is there a reason for the Labour and Maori Party colours to be so similar? They are clearly different parties, yet the colours used to identify them are close to identical. Perhaps different colours could be used. Thanks, Sarsaparilla39 ( talk) 09:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
This is not an issue of precedence - New Zealand First's use of black isn't up for grabs, it is the official party colour and even if the party disappears completely off the radar it should stay as is. The predominant colour of the Māori Party is red - it is a traditional Māori colour as as such it represents much more than the party's presence on wikipedia. The use of party colours on wikipedia is primarily to represent their corporate identity, not to make life easy for wikipedia readers, although where clear conflicts arise secondary party colours are used. An example is the Progressive Party - their primary colour is #FF0000 , which is the same as the Labour Party's red so we use their secondary colour #9E9E9E instead. A political party can change it's branding and colours used here should respect that - National recently changed from #0000CD to #00529F and so did our representation of their colour. Sometimes the criteria for choosing a party colour (where none exists) can seem arbitrary - the Liberal Party uses #FFDF00 on the grounds that yellow is historically used for Liberal parties overseas and when I needed a colour for Ratana I simply took a colour sample from the roof of the Ratana church image here on wikipedia #A52A2A as it is a red/brown colour recognisable as those used in Māori culture.
For the full list of NZ political party meta attributes see Wikipedia:Index of New Zealand political party meta attributes. I'd also suggest that this discussion should move to Wikipedia talk:Index of New Zealand political party meta attributes as it is all about the meta attributes and has absolutely nothing to do with the actual election. Fanx ( talk) 21:20, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Another non-NZ perspective - in the list of results the background colours are a pastel version of the party colours, except for ACT. It's really jarring compared to the others. Any reason? (Perhaps the other colours are TOO pastel, I can barely see the difference) Bazj ( talk) 10:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Infobox and result templates updated with 100% counted provisional results. [Yawn] Too tired to change the text, but need to update:
- Kelvinc ( talk) 11:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
The Maori party did not win all of the maori seats, labour won two! This needs to be reexamined and changed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.35.18 ( talk) 22:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Also9 south island elecotrate stuff all wrong, population in Aorkai actually increased and selwyn not part of old Aoraki seat
The picture of ACT leader Rodney hide is rather low quality (looks like it's taken from a camera phone in a pub!). I suggest changing it to the one used on his personal profile... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rodney_Hide_at_parliament.JPG ... which is of a much higher picture quality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgiltrap ( talk • contribs) 10:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Results here
The other should be 6.54% to make it add to 100%. The correct figure is (153,461 / 2,344,566 = 6.545). Rounded to 6.55 for 2dp but rounded to 6.54 to add to 100.00. I'm not sure how to easily fix this table to amend this error. 202.139.104.226 ( talk) 01:21, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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is describing various seats as "considered vulnerable to (re)capture" weaseltalkin'? 'cause, some winner is going to come through and sow a bunch of those reference needed tags, where you have to go back and find out who considered it vulnerable, and why if it's "considered" vulnerable, why we can't say "is vulnerable". I was just wondering if people had any idea about the language of these paragraphs? Rocklaw ( talk) 20:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new here, and interested in helping make this page better. There are two things I want to talk about: 1. I would really like to have all 70 current electorates profiled (can we get maps?) before too long, maybe Easter? (of which I will gladly do a lot of the work) 2. that I would like to turn the 'marginal seats' section into a 'notable races' section, so as to avoid oversignifying electorate results (they're not super important any more)non-marginal seats. I guess, just nuts and bolts. So, yeah. hi. Rocklaw ( talk) 00:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
what counts as a snap election? If 1984 was a snap then so was 2002, right? In which case, they aren't that rare any more. My point when I renovated the opening paragraph was to say off year snaps are ridiculously rare. I will follow it up by adding that we shouldn't get too hung up on presedence or convention, because those sorts of things are just made to be broken, especially while we're still feeling our way around the new(ish) electoral system. Kripto 21:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
I think we should thrash out a theoretical definiton of a snap election with no particular year in mind, since it is a somewhat nebulous concept. Then we can apply it with total immunity friom prosecution. I open the bidding with, one that happens before the start of spring (ca. September 1) in a usual election year. Kripto 00:37, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
John Key doesn't need to win 13 seats to govern. What bollocks. If whoever did that doesn't understand the New Zealand electoral syste and is still using FPP lingo to describe it, could they at least have the good grace not to edit pages about it? 121.73.11.43 ( talk) 23:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
The current LAB+PRO government is always ten seats short of government using this "fact" let's call it "Holden's Law". With NZF+UTD, this number falls to two short, which is why the Greens abstain on sup&conf. This means that nobody has a majority in the house - to govern, in effect, you just need more seats than the other guy. MMP's dirty little secret, and the one that I reckon the future election will blow the lid off is - the idea of a group of people being obviously and demonstrably "the government" is dead. I've always held the sneaking suspicion that the centre-right haven't quite grasped this idea, which explains (not completely, but pretty well) why they keep getting beaten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.11.43 ( talk) 00:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
We shouldn't remove a section because of one guys consiparcy theory! National did need to win 13 seats to gewt a MJAORITY and I think it should be included —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.35.18 ( talk) 22:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Ten bucks says this: not one vote will be swayed by a year-old election funding scandal. In fact, if you were to ask a panel of experts what's going to be the major theme of a campaign that most likely won't be waged until next spring, they'd say they couldn't tell you, given that leaders don't like to play their policy hands too far out. In the light of that, I would suggest that we shouldn't talk about issues until closer to the time, and leave the article as a sort of skeletal look at the mechanics of not the campaign, but the electoral process itself. Kripto 22:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Taito Field is going to retire in 2006? Since when?
Speculation is highly unencyclopediac. An alien could burst out of his stomach (this is unlikely, I grant); he could be deselected (which is more likely), etc, etc. But, one thing, if we're going to speculate in lieu of any good information which isn't due until probably the middle of next year, then what about the possibility of resignations of MPs in order to stand for various mayoralties? Kripto 22:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone find a better free use image? Brian | (Talk) 04:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
1. The electorate boundaries aren't of notable interest - we're stuck an an FPP hangover when we say that a close call in Otaki is noteworthy. You might as well say that Nick Smith's majority in Nelson is a sign of things to come. Where was the party vote the closest? 2. seriously, take the election fnuding thing down. You're soothsaying. You're trying to guess what the campaign will be about. Don't do that. 3. Only list the people who will retire. There's a rumour (sure I just started it, but all the same) that Paul Swain will ascend to heaven on a golden chariot too, but I take that as seriosuly as I do stories of Pete Hodgson retiring - I've heard stories of PH quitting since the day he was elected. Don't speculate. 4. Where did the picture of John Key go? Kripto 03:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
hey, I count 67 opinion polls taken since the 2005 election. That's a lot, and read as a continuous bunch of numbers, does have some semblence of validity as an indicator of trends. I don't mind updating the polling chart, that's not what bugs me, it's more...if I put all 67 polls up, and maybe a graph I don't really know how to make, (screencap?) would it be better to have this on a new page? 67 table rows is a bit big. Kripto 03:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't like the way this article appears to treat Opinion polling for the New Zealand general election, 2008. It should be discussed here as well, using the main article template rather than pointing to another article only. Does anyone disagree? With candidates, it's different of course, but we can certainly give a quick summary of opinion polling. Richard001 ( talk) 00:38, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
The infobox is able to handle more than two parties; I suggest that instead of summarily removing content, the existing information should be expanded. -- Lholden ( talk) 00:39, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I disagree that more than two parties should go in the infobox. One of the two main parties is almost certain to form the majority party in the government after the next election. Several of the minor parties may become part of a coalition, but it is extremely unlikely at this point that any other party will gain the substantial share of the vote that the two major ones can expect. There is a natural "cut-off" point to display the two major parties; the next natural cut-off point would be to include all those parties currently in parliament (10 of them, I believe), and an argument could be made for others which have some chance of winning a seat or to take it to extremes, every party and independent candidate standing.- gadfium 01:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems that the infobox supports a maximum of five parties. The current arrangement has the five parties who gained the most votes in the last election in the order of percentage of votes gained. If we're going to display five parties, then this is the correct selection and order.- gadfium 03:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
After the election some MPs will obviously be not returning so should a new article be created, Retired MPs from the 48th New Zealand Parliament or similar. Then those MPs pages could be deleted. Margaret Wilson should keep her page and maybe former Ministers or MPs with a story i.e David Benson-Pope. Any thoughts or name ideas. Tshiels1 ( talk) 06:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
It doesn't disappear at all. There is longstanding precedent that anyone ever elected to a federal state parliament, even if for a month, is notable, and I would be very surprised if any such article was ever deleted at AfD. Rebecca ( talk) 11:56, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Don't delete them - if they are deleted there will be a lot of red names in the past "xxxx general election" pages (all written) and in the "xxth Parliament" pages (some written) Hugo999 ( talk) 23:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Why do you have to go to a different article to get a summary of opinion polls? Anyone heard of summary style? Richard001 ( talk) 06:52, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
The section This election is about trust makes the article unbalanced and lacking neutrality. The NZF stuff is largely factual but the National stuff is very slanted. What to do: Remove? Greatly moderate? Add anti-Labour stuff to balance the anti-National stuff? I don't favour the last - I'd rather see more substance on policies than this sort of sloganeering and insinuations. Nurg ( talk) 01:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
The whole section needs a rewrite or dumping if it stays as is. It should be about this election but Paintergate was two elections ago - I can understand why there's an editwar on this section. "Trust" is an issue raised in electioneering by the Labour Party, a neutral view of the election issue is all that is needed, and Winston Peter's donation problems (as an election issue) should have a separate heading. Fanx ( talk) 06:41, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
I removed the entire section entitled "Trust" as it dealt with political issues from the 2002 election. I think someone simply cut and pasted this section from an old source in order to make Labour look bad (which, unfortunately for this election they needed no help doing; and please don't bollocks me - I support Labour! Paintergate was something that Winston Peters took to town and capitalized on in the 2002 polling. It had nothing to do with the incoming Nationals coalition, nor in my view with the 2008 election. 72.177.63.203 ( talk) 21:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I hope that New Zealanders (and other supporters) will demand that their 2008 general election candidates images are placed on the front page featured article, to offset any apparent American bias that has been made for the November 3 featured article. NorthernThunder ( talk) 02:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
The infobox stats given in some kiwi MPs articles are misleading. Take Rodney Hide and Pita Sharples for examples. In the "Majority" line, Hide is given 15,251 and 42.62%. Hide's majority over Richard Worth was actually a shade over 3000. The percentage figure of course is his share of the total number of electorate votes and is nothing to do with a majority figure. Similar situation over at Sharples. He got fractionally over 2000 more electorate votes than Tamihere. Maybe if the word "Majority" was changed to "Votes" it would fix the problem. As the box is probably a template I'd ask someone with more expertise than me to do it. That would be less laborious than going to each electorate's returns, assessing the individual majorities, and then amending the infobpxes. Kaiwhakahaere ( talk) 01:14, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
This new para points out (briefly) that you neet to think about first the size of parliament (overhang) and then the number of seats needed to get a majority with MMP Hugo999 ( talk) 13:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I've just added a few images from voting today to the commons . I also took a few others today and can upload any of these if anyone wants them - SimonLyall ( talk) 02:53, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
From a non-New Zealander perspective, is there a reason for the Labour and Maori Party colours to be so similar? They are clearly different parties, yet the colours used to identify them are close to identical. Perhaps different colours could be used. Thanks, Sarsaparilla39 ( talk) 09:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
This is not an issue of precedence - New Zealand First's use of black isn't up for grabs, it is the official party colour and even if the party disappears completely off the radar it should stay as is. The predominant colour of the Māori Party is red - it is a traditional Māori colour as as such it represents much more than the party's presence on wikipedia. The use of party colours on wikipedia is primarily to represent their corporate identity, not to make life easy for wikipedia readers, although where clear conflicts arise secondary party colours are used. An example is the Progressive Party - their primary colour is #FF0000 , which is the same as the Labour Party's red so we use their secondary colour #9E9E9E instead. A political party can change it's branding and colours used here should respect that - National recently changed from #0000CD to #00529F and so did our representation of their colour. Sometimes the criteria for choosing a party colour (where none exists) can seem arbitrary - the Liberal Party uses #FFDF00 on the grounds that yellow is historically used for Liberal parties overseas and when I needed a colour for Ratana I simply took a colour sample from the roof of the Ratana church image here on wikipedia #A52A2A as it is a red/brown colour recognisable as those used in Māori culture.
For the full list of NZ political party meta attributes see Wikipedia:Index of New Zealand political party meta attributes. I'd also suggest that this discussion should move to Wikipedia talk:Index of New Zealand political party meta attributes as it is all about the meta attributes and has absolutely nothing to do with the actual election. Fanx ( talk) 21:20, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Another non-NZ perspective - in the list of results the background colours are a pastel version of the party colours, except for ACT. It's really jarring compared to the others. Any reason? (Perhaps the other colours are TOO pastel, I can barely see the difference) Bazj ( talk) 10:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Infobox and result templates updated with 100% counted provisional results. [Yawn] Too tired to change the text, but need to update:
- Kelvinc ( talk) 11:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
The Maori party did not win all of the maori seats, labour won two! This needs to be reexamined and changed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.35.18 ( talk) 22:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Also9 south island elecotrate stuff all wrong, population in Aorkai actually increased and selwyn not part of old Aoraki seat
The picture of ACT leader Rodney hide is rather low quality (looks like it's taken from a camera phone in a pub!). I suggest changing it to the one used on his personal profile... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rodney_Hide_at_parliament.JPG ... which is of a much higher picture quality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgiltrap ( talk • contribs) 10:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Results here
The other should be 6.54% to make it add to 100%. The correct figure is (153,461 / 2,344,566 = 6.545). Rounded to 6.55 for 2dp but rounded to 6.54 to add to 100.00. I'm not sure how to easily fix this table to amend this error. 202.139.104.226 ( talk) 01:21, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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