Talk:2018 Bahraini general election

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Elections and Referendums, an ongoing effort to improve the quality of, expand upon and create new articles relating to elections, electoral reform and other aspects of democratic decision-making. For more information, visit our project page.Elections and ReferendumsWikipedia:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsTemplate:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsElections and Referendums

Bahrain Mid‑importance

	Bahrain portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bahrain, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Kingdom of Bahrain on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BahrainWikipedia:WikiProject BahrainTemplate:WikiProject BahrainBahrain
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

All independents?

The way the results are included is close to the way we do it for non partisan democracies in which all candidates are independents. Is that how it is here? What about the total of votes, and turnout? --Aréat (talk) 11:21, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Someone? --Aréat (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Aréat: This wasn't an entirely non-partisan affair, although parties are referred to as "political societies" in Bahrain. This article confirms that the Progressive Democratic Tribune participated in the elections. The IFES (not a source I usually trust) states that they won one seat in the first round and that Al Asalah won another. Number 5 7 23:57, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It's quite difficult fishing for info on arabic elections. --Aréat (talk) 00:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Aréat: Appreciate it's not your first language, but there are some good English-language sources for many of the Gulf countries, specifically The National (UAE), Gulf Times (Qatar), Gulf News (UAE) and GDN Online (Bahrain - cited above). Number 5 7 00:07, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]