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What's with the background colours for the by-elections where there's been a change of party? I think it looks a bit on the odd side to see Robert Poole in National green, Ray Hollis and Terry Mackenroth in Liberal blue, and Rob Borbidge in independent grey. The party colours are already in the small panel next to their names; I'm not sure why this is needed, and it makes it fairly confusing to look at. Rebecca (talk) 17:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was borrowing from List of Australian federal by-elections as a precedent. I like it. A similar thing is done on the American pages United States Senate elections, 1998. Digestible (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I thought the same thing as Rebecca when I saw it originally. I adapted List of British Columbia by-elections and List of federal by-elections in Canada for WA - incidentally it's always worthwhile looking to see what the Canadians have done, as they are probably the most organised project when it comes to politics and they have a disturbing number of featured lists. I varied from their design when I disagreed or when Canada and Australia differed. Also combined it into 10 year blocks to keep the thing readable and the file size down (it works better in Canada because I think they just like having a lot of by-elections in each term!) Orderinchaos 04:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's worth highlighting when a seat changes hands at a by-election - I did the Australian federal one, basing it on the UK list (List of United Kingdom by-elections). However, the federal one also has the most recent by-elections at the top of the list (a good idea, I think, since they're the most relevant to most searchers). Frickeg (talk) 01:22, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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At the moment, a big problem with the table is that the electorate name is linked to a by-election article that mostly doesn't exist. Whereas, we do have articles now for all the electorates (thanks User:Diverman for completing them!).

My proposal is to link the electorate name to the electoral article (which does exist and which is the "natural link" I think the reader would expect to find) and then link the date field to the by-election article (might update the column header to reflect this). Since there cannot be more than one by-election in the same electorate on the same day, this is unambiguous. This would provide a useful link (the electorate) now, and links to the by-election articles if/when they are ever written. I'm happy to do the work if people like the idea. What do you think? Kerry (talk) 23:51, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would probably take the opportunity to try to update the early by-elections (I think there are a lot more than are showing). Kerry (talk) 23:51, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing that annoys me in this article is the by-elections are listed the wrong way around. Should be latest first. Timeshift (talk) 00:27, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I prefer the current way, but if we had a sortable table, we could both see them whichever way we prefer. So I think that is solvable. Kerry (talk) 09:01, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The only other by-election list in Australia that does it this way is NT (but at least there's only 21 by-elections so it all fits easily on one screen page). The rest do it latest first. Why? Well what's a reader more likely to click on? The 1862 West Moreton by-election, or the 2014 Redcliffe by-election? Common sense. Timeshift (talk) 00:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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