Talk:Candidates of the 2022 Ontario general election

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I find this difficult to use. Here are two new candidates for the Liberal nomination in Northumberland-Peterborough South. Someone should enter them in this table: Nicole Beatty: https://www.cobourgblog.com/news-2021/nicole-beatty-seeks-provincial-liberal-nomination Jeff Kawzenuk: https://www.gonorthumberland.ca/2021/05/04/jeff-kawzenuk-seeking-provincial-nomination-for-liberal-party-in-northumberland-peterborough-south/ Wilfred Day (talk) 22:19, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other Parties in Columns

If you look at Results of the 2021 Canadian federal election by riding, parties like the Free Party Canada were able to be placed in their own column in certain regions instead of being left in the "other" column. I believe it was based on parties having candidates running in more than half of the ridings in a specified region.

Could a more experienced Wikipedia editor be able to set up a system like that for this election? If not, I will try to do it myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bingus777 (talk • contribs) 02:51, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've just gone through and updated this, adding columns for NOTA where appropriate. James Hyett (talk) 14:08, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think we've learned from NOTA that a significant number of the names posted in their website ultimately did not appear in the final list of candidates as published by Elections Ontario. That resulted in a lot of work for nothing on this page! I think in future elections, for such parties we should wait until the dust settles (i.e. when the official list is out) to determine if having their own column is justified unless it is all but certain that a new or minor party will go through with all its intended nominations. MauriceYMichaud (talk) 16:54, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hippo Party of Ontario?

Seems like there is a provincial off-shoot of the satirical Rhino Party, that has reserved a party name with Elections Ontario (https://finances.elections.on.ca/en/reserved-names). Based on their website (https://hippopartyon.weebly.com/), they are running candidates. Does this warrant inclusion? 2607:FEA8:7B1C:3000:24A1:6A29:5F11:5028 (talk) 04:25, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not too familiar with the MOS around candidate lists, but it seems to me that the Hippo party, though they may have reserved a name, are not a registered party (https://finances.elections.on.ca/en/registered-parties). So probably not within the purview of this list. James Hyett (talk) 13:32, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

After some research, I go back and forth on this. As James noted, they are not registered. Though it seems like they are well on their way to being registered. It seems their plan is to wait until the writs are dropped in May and then endorse 2 candidates, which would allow them to be a registered party for the 2022 election. On the one hand, they nominated/endorsed 12 candidates in ridings which is, so far, more than many other minority parties that are listed on the page. This includes Adam Smith, who is listed as an Independent on the page, and has the Hippo Party listed on his candidate Twitter bio (https://twitter.com/Adam4Durham). On the other hand, I agree with James, they are not yet registered so it may not be within the purview of the page until they are. ChrisWilliam1995 (talk) 17:21, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Order of Minor Parties' Columns

It's well-established precedent that parties should have their own columns if they are running candidates in 50% of the ridings of a given region, but is anyone able to point me to any guidance on ordering those parties? Looking at G. Timothy Walton's comment on the Results of the 2021 Federal Election talk page here, it seems like the tiebreaker used on that article is ordering parties by total number of candidates across the jurisdiction (in this case, Ontario). Should we be doing the same here? Is it too early to do so and I should save this question until after the election? James Hyett (talk) 17:59, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The order of the columns prior to the election is the number of seats won in the previous election, followed by number of seats currently held. So PC's 1, NDP 2, OLP 3 and Green 4, then the New Blue Party and Ontario Party would appear before any other party, such as NOTA (As they are the only other party thus far with enough candidates in a region to warrant a column). After that, it seems like order would be alphabetical.Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 20:52, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Remove parties with zero candidates?

I believe we are passed the deadline for candidates to get on the ballot and we have several parties listed with apparently no candidates. I feel it is time to remove these parties. -"Ghost of Dan Gurney" 16:36, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed them. Removing parties with 0 candidates is also consistent with party lists of past elections.

Bingus778 (talk) 20:02, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]