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The (Wiki page title) name of candidate's party. That page should also have subpages /meta/color and /meta/shortname for use in the table. Example: party=Democratic Party (United States) candidate: required: undefined: The name of the candidate, preferably in the form of a wiki link to the candidate's page. Example: candidate=[[John Smith ...
A more sophisticated effect in election results tables can be achieved using this template. This adds a link to the candidate's party and also adds a color tab to the left of the candidate. See Election box begin and Election box end. See this template's page for a new party.
Note that template parameters in this section have an "n" in their name. This should be substituted with the number of the candidate in order of appearance in the template. Up to 20 candidates are supported. Political party. In non-partisan elections, political parties can be left out at the discretion of the editor.
The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database.
This template is used on approximately 23,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. ... {Election box candidate no party link no change}} ...
Template:Election box 2-party-preferred; Template:Election box candidate AU party; Template:Election box gain AU party; Template:Election box hold AU party; Template:Election box member change AU party; Template:Election box new seat win AU party; Template:Election box notional 2-party-preferred; Template:Election box notional 3-candidate-preferred
Potentially there is a need for versions of these templates that do not have the party link mechanism. However, it can be argued that any party that has a successful candidate deserves an article about them and the full /meta/color treatment. The one obvious exception to this is, of course, independent candidates, who won't actually have a party.
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