Template:Election box US auto/doc

Usage

Basic

Example: {{election box US auto|California|2016|United States Representative District 7}}

United States House of Representatives elections, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Ami Bera (Incumbent)	152,133	51.2%
	Republican	Scott Jones	145,168	48.8%
Total votes			297,301	100.0%
	Democratic hold

Primary

You can also include primary information in the same box. Example: {{election box US auto|California|2016|State Assembly Member District 65|primary=yes}}

California State Assembly election, 2016

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sharon Quirk-Silva	42,890	54.3%
	Republican	Young Kim (Incumbent)	36,028	45.7%
Total votes			78,918	100.0%
General election
	Democratic	Sharon Quirk-Silva	79,654	53.2%
	Republican	Young Kim (Incumbent)	69,941	46.8%
Total votes			149,595	100.0%
	Democratic gain from Republican

References

These references will appear in the article, but this list appears only on this page.

Autolinking

The template automatically tries to create links to candidates if they have pages. If the candidate's exact name has an article, then it will further check if it is a redirect, and follow it if so. Some candidates have redirects to the articles about their election, so we won't follow redirects to articles with the word "elections" in them. If no article exists (or it was a redirect to the election page), then no link is created unless |redlinks=1 was passed.

Sometimes you want to manually control the link target, like in cases where there's a disambiguation page. You can do so by passing a parameter in the format of |<name> link=target. For example, if the name in the dataset is Bernard "Bernie" Sanders, you would use |Bernard "Bernie" Sanders link=Bernie Sanders.

A {{election box}} template for US elections that automatically builds the table using tabular data from Commons.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
State	1	no description Example California	String	required
Year	2	Year the election took place. Can also be a comma separated list of years for multiple boxes Example 2016	Number	required
Contest	3	Name of the contest as specified in the tabular data Example United States Representative District 8	String	required
Type	type	Type of election, can be "Primary" Default "General"	String	optional
Hold	hold	"held" if the same party held the seat, or "flip" if Democrats/Republicans switched. Example held	Unknown	optional
Gain party	gain	Name of party which gains the seat Example Democratic	String	optional
Loser party	loser	Name of party that lost the seat Example Democratic	String	optional
Primary	primary	Whether to include primary information in the same template Default no Example yes	String	optional
no headings	no headings	Whether to disable automatic headings when multiple boxes are being generated (comma separated list of years) Default no Example yes	String	optional