Talk:Haruna Iddrisu

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Candidate and first timers

Hi @Bearcat:

I appreciate your line of thought on this. I however do not see that incumbents are not candidates themselves. How about previous MP's who are not presently incumbents but are contesting again, would we call them candidates? Do you care to clarify? Thanks —M@sssly^✉ 22:06, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody's saying that incumbents who reoffer somehow fail to be candidates. But "candidate" categories do not exist as a one-stop shopping list of everybody who's running in an election at all whether they've actually served in the legislature or not — election results lists are used for that purpose, while candidate categories exist to contain people who are running as candidates but have not already served in the legislature, and are thus not already categorized as being MPs. Since most incumbent MPs run for reelection to a second or third or fourth term in office, and on rarer occasions can run for reelection eight or nine or even ten times, adding them to a new "candidates" category for every election they ran in would constitute category bloat. Bearcat (talk) 22:19, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]