Talk:Candidates in the 2024 Irish general election

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Aontú

Why has Aontú been omitted from the table? They're included in the other Next Irish general election tables. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 09:36, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"National Alliance"

Why would we include this in the table? They are (presumably) members of X or Y parties. If they leave them to join some new alliance (which hasn't been deemed worthy of its own article) then their new membership should be listed. If it's just some electoral pact, why would we mention it in a list of candidates? And why would we do it in such a weird manner, super-scripting an abbreviation? The most that could be included and still remain WP:DUE is a single footnote, saying 'Parties X, Y and Z announced an electoral pact, called the National Alliance'. If we have a reference for that. As an aside, the multiple instances of links to the Irish Freedom Party, Ireland First, etc, need to be removed. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 16:07, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was based on the Kavanagh list [1] where independent candidates are described as "Independent/National Alliance". It makes sense to denote this and for consistency also next to the three parties that are part of the alliance. Could be a footnote similar to the existing footnotes for the Mid West Hospital Campaign and Workers Party independents, except there are many National Alliance candidates and only one of each of those. JSwift49 16:33, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kavanagh lists no members of IFP/II or any other party as "National Alliance" candidates in that source. He lists nine "Independent/National Alliance" candidates. It seems to be some sort of loose electoral pact. Best to leave mention out, I think. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 16:56, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is a formal electoral alliance between three parties that includes independents. It has a leadership structure and its own election committee; this isn’t some informal thing.[2][3][4] JSwift49 18:09, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Order of parties in table

What is the order based on? It seems very arbitrary. Fine Gael has fewer seats than Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil and had a lower percentage in the last election, so it isn't either of those. I think it should be based on one of those. Lough Swilly (talk) 01:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In my HO, it should be based on the current number of seats in the Oireachtas. Then it would be FF, FG, SF etc. You could also use percentage of first preference votes in the 2020 general election, or current number of seats in the Dail.Spleodrach (talk) 08:46, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabetically would be my preference as alphabetical ordering is used on ballot papers in relation to candidate names in Ireland, so we would be borrowing from this convention and applying it to party ordering in the case of this Wikipedia page. Aside from this, party ordering following a logic would be better than ordering without a logic. I would describe party ordering by number of seats, or voter percentage, to be far less preferable than alphabetically, in order to avoid establishment bias. To argue this a little further, candidates do not appear on the ballot paper based on previous electoral success, so what would be the logic in doing so here? This is something to think about as I can image this page as a resource for people to see who is running in their constituency, so perhaps borrowing from the convention is the preferable way to order. SDominicH (talk) 16:29, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would support ordering by the number of seats heading into the election. SDominicH has a valid point about the ballot orders, but the Wikipedia convention in infoboxes/tables seems to be to order by existing seats so that would be more in line. JSwift49 16:17, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd support number of Dáil seats heading into the election. I take SDominicH's point, but I don't think people will be coming to WP to decide how they're going to vote, and if they are, I doubt they'll be too influenced by the order we've put people in. But some system is better than "random" or "author's preferred order". Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 17:38, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]