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![]() | General election, December 2019 in a nutshell:
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This page contains resources and links to help participants in the workshop edit pages related to the 2019 UK General Election. Lots of MPs are stepping down and so there will be lots of new MPs being elected on the night. We invite people who want to help out to add links and resources under the headings below which may be relevant.
Election Results Mean All Nighters For Politicians, Pundits—And Wikipedia Editors – an account of the event in Fortune by Katherine Dunn.
A few of these people already have articles (blue links rather than red), and are there for illustrative purposes, and to discourage editors from inadvertently trying to recreate them.
From List of MPs standing down at the 2019 United Kingdom general election, we know that at least 74 seats will have new MPs. Each constituency page on Wikipedia has a list of who is standing in 2019. Some of these will be safe Tory or Labour seats, so we can confidently predict who will be elected. Once we have the exit polling data at 10pm, we will have an even better idea of who some of these new MPs will be.
However, they won't be notable in Wikipedia terms until the constituency result is declared, but we can create an article draft.
Everyone on this list is the candidate for a party anticipated to get a ~10% or more majority but does not yet have an article:
![]() | To find this page quickly, just type the shortcut WP:GE2019 into the top right hand corner search box and hit return/enter. |
![]() | General election, December 2019 in a nutshell:
|
This page contains resources and links to help participants in the workshop edit pages related to the 2019 UK General Election. Lots of MPs are stepping down and so there will be lots of new MPs being elected on the night. We invite people who want to help out to add links and resources under the headings below which may be relevant.
Election Results Mean All Nighters For Politicians, Pundits—And Wikipedia Editors – an account of the event in Fortune by Katherine Dunn.
A few of these people already have articles (blue links rather than red), and are there for illustrative purposes, and to discourage editors from inadvertently trying to recreate them.
From List of MPs standing down at the 2019 United Kingdom general election, we know that at least 74 seats will have new MPs. Each constituency page on Wikipedia has a list of who is standing in 2019. Some of these will be safe Tory or Labour seats, so we can confidently predict who will be elected. Once we have the exit polling data at 10pm, we will have an even better idea of who some of these new MPs will be.
However, they won't be notable in Wikipedia terms until the constituency result is declared, but we can create an article draft.
Everyone on this list is the candidate for a party anticipated to get a ~10% or more majority but does not yet have an article: