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Does anyone have a primary source for the results? Everything I've found seems to be second hand, and I'm interested in seeing how the votes breakdown. Danweasel ( talk) 16:53, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone understand how the voting works? Here is the UN's press release: [1]. The Latin American and Caribbean States vote is cut and dry: 185 votes for Mexico + 1 vote for Brazil + 6 abstentions = 192, the number of UN member states. But for "African and Asian States" and "Western European States" how was the voting done? – Zntrip 03:16, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
That still doesn't explain it. There are 192 member states. In the "African and Asian States" category Uganda got 181 votes, Japan 158, Iran 32, Madagascar 2, and there was 1 abstention. That's a total of 374 votes. For the "Western European States" category there is a total of 372 votes. If every country got two votes per category, there would be a total of 384. – Zntrip 17:27, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
That explains it. Some countries only marked one vote on their ballot. – Zntrip 02:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Right now, the article says:
One for Africa (held by Uganda)[2] One for Asia (held by Japan)[2] Two for the Western European and Others Group (held by Turkey and Austria)[2] One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Mexico)[2]
However, these were the nations which won election, not the nations which had held the seat at the time of the election.
The article should state that
Uganda won the seat held by South Africa. Japan won the seat held by Indonesia Austria and Turkey won seats held by Belgium and Italy Mexico won the seat held by Panama.
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Does anyone have a primary source for the results? Everything I've found seems to be second hand, and I'm interested in seeing how the votes breakdown. Danweasel ( talk) 16:53, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone understand how the voting works? Here is the UN's press release: [1]. The Latin American and Caribbean States vote is cut and dry: 185 votes for Mexico + 1 vote for Brazil + 6 abstentions = 192, the number of UN member states. But for "African and Asian States" and "Western European States" how was the voting done? – Zntrip 03:16, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
That still doesn't explain it. There are 192 member states. In the "African and Asian States" category Uganda got 181 votes, Japan 158, Iran 32, Madagascar 2, and there was 1 abstention. That's a total of 374 votes. For the "Western European States" category there is a total of 372 votes. If every country got two votes per category, there would be a total of 384. – Zntrip 17:27, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
That explains it. Some countries only marked one vote on their ballot. – Zntrip 02:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Right now, the article says:
One for Africa (held by Uganda)[2] One for Asia (held by Japan)[2] Two for the Western European and Others Group (held by Turkey and Austria)[2] One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Mexico)[2]
However, these were the nations which won election, not the nations which had held the seat at the time of the election.
The article should state that
Uganda won the seat held by South Africa. Japan won the seat held by Indonesia Austria and Turkey won seats held by Belgium and Italy Mexico won the seat held by Panama.
-- 71.6.12.114 ( talk) 02:10, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
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