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Wikipedia:2024 UK local elections night editathon

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This page contains resources and links to help participants in the workshop to create and edit pages related to the 2024 United Kingdom local elections.

Directly elected mayors in England#List of directly elected mayors 22/24 of the 24 directly elected mayors in England are being voted for, not just London! Anyone holding such a role is automatically deemed notable (on Wikipedia), and we already have articles for all the existing mayors. The 2024 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections covers all of England and Wales, and any such commissioner is automatically deemed notable.

On the night, we will also be discussing and preparing for an editathon for the Next United Kingdom general election, which must be held no later than 28 January 2025. November is the bookies' favourite.

Predicting results

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Looking back at the 2021 United Kingdom local elections on Thursday 6 May 2021, the Tories received 36% of the votes cast, Labour 29%, and LibDems 17%. In May 2021, Poll of Polls for national parliament voting intention gave the parties 42/35/7%. Currently this is 23/44/9% (with Reform on 12% and the Greens on 6%). Obviously, people can vote quite differently at a local level, but we should expect many Labour gains from the Tories, some with large swings.

List of participants

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Categories and lists

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Articles to improve

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Articles to be created

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By-elections

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Mayoralty elections

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Police and crime commissioner elections

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2024 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections

England

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Wales

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London Assembly election

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2024 London Assembly election, 25 seats, 14 from geographical constituencies, 11 more distributed to ensure that total seats for each party is proportionate to their vote share. All Assembly members get an article.

Geographical constituencies

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11 additional seats

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  • As for the 11 additional seats, last time the distribution was:
  • Conservative 4 - we have articles for the top 4 list candidates
  • Green 3 - we have articles for the top 3 list candidates
  • LibDem 2 - we have articles for the 1st and 3rd list candidates, but not the 2nd, Rob Blackie, so we should likely draft this.
  • Labour 2 - we have articles for the top 2 list candidates
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We should create these articles in DRAFT space, as they are only candidates, and not notable until elected. If we create them straight away in mainspace, they are liable to be deleted.

See also

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