Talk:2008 Spanish general election

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Please try to keep the information ordered UPD nor C's are represented in the Cortes (no mater whatsoever our personal opinion can be), question why I think it is unimportant to add a section dedicated solely to them, while it will be more important to ad more info o BNG, CC and ChA. If some editor wants to add info on them it please inform they are minor parties C's like EHAK or PAr only in regional legislatures and UPD like Falange, CDS and PCPE in none. Please try to keep the article encyclopedic.Zape82 15:35, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Compile polls info

I would like this article to have a graph compiling all polls information like Image:CombinedPollsVotes-39Cdnelxn.png. Even two graphs, one with vote% predictions and another one with seats predictions, would be better. Anyone willing to undertake the task? ^^ Habbit (talk) 12:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Turtles?

I would think that with this article being on the front page, it could get its tense updated a little faster. I know, I know, why don't I do it? I'd rather leave it to people more knowledgeable on the event. Murderbike (talk) 03:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Party vote share by electoral district

Where is A Coruña??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.60.170.180 (talk) 18:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for pointing out this oversight. Valenciano (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is this relevant?

"If the 2004 general election had been fought under the new distribution of seats, the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) would have lost one seat in both La Coruña and Vizcaya, while the opposition People's Party (PP) would have had one seat fewer in Córdoba as well as in Soria. However, PSOE would have captured the additional seats in Alicante, Murcia and Toledo, whereas PP would have only won the newly-added seat in Almería. In all, PSOE would have made a net gain of one seat, for a total of 165, while PP would have come down by one, to 147 seats. ^[1]"

Well, the election took place in 2008. And this year, votes changed. The fact is PP won the seats in Alicante, Murcia and Almeria while the PSOE used the former minister of Defense to won the discussed one in Toledo. The PP not only lost the seat in Córdoba and Soria, but also in Vizcaya were the PSOE party increased his deputies. What's the relevance of hipothesis when there are already facts?--FAR (talk) 11:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Mountolive _{deny, deflect, detonate} 14:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's not a hypothesis it's a fact (and sourced at that). The very relevant point about all that is that with the reallocation of seats the results in 2004 would have been different and thus comparison of results needs to take that into account. In political science/psephology it's quite normal when discussing elections to cite notional results. Also your point about the PSOE only winning Toledo because Jose Bono headed their list there is wrong - their vote declined in Toledo and PP increased their lead over them from 1% to 8%. Valenciano (talk) 18:49, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Valenciano: the paragraph serves people looking for an in-depth analysis. It also puts things in perspective, because taking into account the changes in the constituencies; the PSOE has "really" gained 4 seats instead of 5 and the PP "actually" gained 7 instead of 6. Besides, a similar (and much more in-depth) paragraph appears in United Kingdom general election, 2005 about the redistribution of constituencies in Scotland. Habbit (talk) 18:53, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ redistribution of seats for 2008

Language to be used for names

Please put the names of the Spanish autonomies in Spanish to be more specific names herein here:

A Coruña (ie in Galician / Portuguese) in Spanish is: La Coruña Girona (ie in Catalan) in Spanish is: Gerona Lleida (ie in Catalan) in Spanish is: Lerida

Espñol put it correctly, as there are more districts that are named in Spanish language and yet come out in Spanish. Will be more objective if all names are written in Spanish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hacketish (talk • contribs) 09:43, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is the English wikipedia so in any case they should be in English, but as we are not talking of provinces but constituencies, we stick to the official name of each one.--Zape82 (talk) 09:52, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Candidates

Artur Mas (CiU) and Íñigo Urkullu (PNV) are the leaders of their parties, but they weren't candidates to MPs in the 2008 election. I just changed them for the current spokerspersons of these parties. Ambil (talk) 14:03, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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