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of William Adamson's photo for the info box, if an uploader can do the honours: http://lomjar.myby.co.uk/WilliamAdamson-cropped.jpg Mithy73 ( talk) 16:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
How can Labour be shown as second party on 57 seats when Coalition Liberals had 127 seats and Sinn Féin had 73 seats?
It looks to me like the order of parties in the infobox is all over the place.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this?
-- Gramscis cousin Talk Stalk 11:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
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The last paragraph of the lead originally said the 1918 elections were "the first and the only largely democratic and universal elections on the whole United Kingdom". Surely "the only" is a mistake or a bit of trolling. I have deleted it. 69.165.133.205 ( talk) 21:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I have merged the Conservatives and the Coalition Conservatives in the Infobox. The Infobox as it stands gives a very strong misimpression that there were two separate factions of the Conservative party standing in the election, and that the non-couponed Conservatives were anti-Coalition. This does not appear to have been the case, because it is clear from McEwen (1962), p. 2, that most of them were nothing of the sort - half of them were Irish Unionists, etc. It does strike me that someone might reasonably argue that since the Liberals are divided in the Infobox on the basis of whether they were couponed or not, the Conservatives ought to be divided similarly, but it seems to me that in the Liberal Party the issue of the coupons was the basis of a significant factional split so that they became fully separate parties in 1922, whereas in the case of the Conservatives there was no actual split at all. This change also has the advantage of allowing the gain/loss and swing figures to stop being a complete mess. The Infobox is meant to be a helpful summary, I believe, which it wasn't really before, whereas now it conveys succinctly the fact that the Tories effectively won the election in a landslide, etc. I am not any great expert in these matters, though, so if someone who knows what they're talking about thinks I'm wrong, do correct me. Dionysodorus ( talk) 02:05, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Or at least not as far as I can see? -- Red King ( talk) 13:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
At 707 members, this appears to have been Britain's largest ever House of Commons. The drop to 615 members in the next election can be explained by the secession of Ireland, but there is no mention of any constituency changes which could account for the extra 37 seats compared to earlier elections. Robin S. Taylor ( talk) 20:27, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
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The Transfer of Seats section shows seat transfers to the National Liberals, but they weren't formed until 1922. I think these are meant to be referring to Coalition Liberals? -- Gharbhain ( talk) 20:04, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
As this election and its campaign happened during the severe 1918-19 influenza pandemic, a mention of the effect of this illness on the election would be relevant. Boleslaw ( talk) 04:49, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
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of William Adamson's photo for the info box, if an uploader can do the honours: http://lomjar.myby.co.uk/WilliamAdamson-cropped.jpg Mithy73 ( talk) 16:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
How can Labour be shown as second party on 57 seats when Coalition Liberals had 127 seats and Sinn Féin had 73 seats?
It looks to me like the order of parties in the infobox is all over the place.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this?
-- Gramscis cousin Talk Stalk 11:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
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The last paragraph of the lead originally said the 1918 elections were "the first and the only largely democratic and universal elections on the whole United Kingdom". Surely "the only" is a mistake or a bit of trolling. I have deleted it. 69.165.133.205 ( talk) 21:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I have merged the Conservatives and the Coalition Conservatives in the Infobox. The Infobox as it stands gives a very strong misimpression that there were two separate factions of the Conservative party standing in the election, and that the non-couponed Conservatives were anti-Coalition. This does not appear to have been the case, because it is clear from McEwen (1962), p. 2, that most of them were nothing of the sort - half of them were Irish Unionists, etc. It does strike me that someone might reasonably argue that since the Liberals are divided in the Infobox on the basis of whether they were couponed or not, the Conservatives ought to be divided similarly, but it seems to me that in the Liberal Party the issue of the coupons was the basis of a significant factional split so that they became fully separate parties in 1922, whereas in the case of the Conservatives there was no actual split at all. This change also has the advantage of allowing the gain/loss and swing figures to stop being a complete mess. The Infobox is meant to be a helpful summary, I believe, which it wasn't really before, whereas now it conveys succinctly the fact that the Tories effectively won the election in a landslide, etc. I am not any great expert in these matters, though, so if someone who knows what they're talking about thinks I'm wrong, do correct me. Dionysodorus ( talk) 02:05, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Or at least not as far as I can see? -- Red King ( talk) 13:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
At 707 members, this appears to have been Britain's largest ever House of Commons. The drop to 615 members in the next election can be explained by the secession of Ireland, but there is no mention of any constituency changes which could account for the extra 37 seats compared to earlier elections. Robin S. Taylor ( talk) 20:27, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
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The Transfer of Seats section shows seat transfers to the National Liberals, but they weren't formed until 1922. I think these are meant to be referring to Coalition Liberals? -- Gharbhain ( talk) 20:04, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
As this election and its campaign happened during the severe 1918-19 influenza pandemic, a mention of the effect of this illness on the election would be relevant. Boleslaw ( talk) 04:49, 25 January 2023 (UTC)