Talk:2010 Birmingham City Council election

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I can see why some might say that this isn't encyclopedic material. However, the results of local elections across the United Kingdom are recorded on Wikipedia. It is a very useful tool in many ways because our local authorities, if they post them at all, are in the habit of removing local election results quite quickly. This is especially true in Birmingham where the council is particularly keen to remove election results, they didn't post the European Election results in 2009 unlike many local authorities, or if they did they took them off the site before I got to have a look at them. More broadly Birmingham is the UK's largest single local authority (devolved governments and LA aside)they have a budget of over £2billion it is important for people to know who takes those decisions, who stood for election and how many people voted for them over their opponents. As outlined above this information should be preserved for posterity so that all may consult it.

The main reason why I created the page now as opposed to after the election is a. to save time later and b. so that people, especially the electors of Birmingham, can see what is going on. It is news, however, the results of this election have ramifications for both the 1,000,000 citizens of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands county and region. There will no doubt also be implications nationally and so on. The fact that metropolitan borough council elections are being held on the same day as a GE is also significant in that this is the first time in nearly 20 years that this has happened. As such Wikipedia provides a very useful tool for comparing results and considering the effect that the increase in turnout resulting from holding first and second order elections together has upon the political composition of the council and the political character of a given ward. --AnthonyBurgess (talk) 14:52, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have contested the prod. We have well over a thousand articles on local elections in the United Kingdom and they have never been deleted at AFD - see the withdrawn nomination for the 2008 election for instance - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birmingham Council election, 2008 and I have had a few get put on the main page as DYKs e.g. Wyre Forest Council election, 2004, Redditch Council election, 2002, Gateshead Council election, 2003 and Hartlepool Council election, 2002. There is only a few weeks until election day and the candidate list is fully verifiable so this is not a crystal ball violation. Birmingham is one of the largest (maybe largest?) council and there are no grounds for why this article should be deleted, only improved. Davewild (talk) 17:42, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]