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Why are seat changes based on seats held before the election, instead of seats changed between elections? I don't feel this gives proper context for perception of political leaders. For example, The conservatives effectively lost 2 seats in comparison to the previous election, and the greens lost 1. This would help explain why Erin O'Toole then lost his leadership review, and Annamie Paul resigned soon after the election. Jag1762010 (talk) 02:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's more accurate to show how the seat totals were changed by the election. O'Toole and Paul were ultimately done in by infighting that began before the election rather than slight decreases in seat totals compared to the previous election. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't really make sense to me. The conservatives and greens objectively won less seats then they did in the previous election, but it makes it look like they performed exactly as well, while liberals gained 5 seats out of nowhere. Jag1762010 (talk) 03:44, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And basing the changes on the previous election would obscure the picture even more—there were five independents and a vacancy going into the election, and the seat swings were far more than a couple here and one there. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 14:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And only 1 of those independents was elected as an independent. All the rest were originally held by one of the parties. To make it look like all those seats were won out of nowhere when the total number of seats didn't change between elections doesn't seem accurate to me. I'd argue the French version of this page is more accurate on that front. Jag1762010 (talk) 04:27, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which image should we use for Yves-François Blanchet in this article? The article about the next election (2024/2025) is using the 2023 image. This article currently uses an image from 2009, which is well before he became leader. I think the 2023 one is closer in time and preferred for that reason. What do others think?-- Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 21:26, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2009 photo: It would be anachronistic to put the 2023 photo in a article about a election who happened in 2021 Punker85 (talk) 22:17, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2023 photo. I generally prefer "closest without going over", but the Blanchet of 2021 resembled the one of 2023 much more than the one of 2009. It seems much more representative to use the newer photo. Though anachronistic, it wouldn't be the first time — peek 1997 Canadian federal election and its 2004 photo of Manning, 2008 photo of McDonough, and 2010 photos of Duceppe and Charest. — Kawnhr (talk) 22:40, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The difference between Blanchet and the examples you made is that Blanchet have a photo taken before the election while all of your examples didn't Punker85 (talk) 01:41, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I have thought for a long time that a new photo was needed, and agree with Kawnhr that the 2009 image is not a good likeness of what he has looked like since becoming leader in 2019. Blanchet has had the glasses and grey stubble beard for a long time. A quick google image search will confirm this for you. The 2009 image just doesn't look like him in 2021. It's not ideal. It would be better if we had a photo from 2021, but of the choices available the 2023 image seems to be a better representation of his appearance in 2021 than the 2009 image is.-- Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 02:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2023 photo: I agree that the closer the better. We are also using a 2023 image of Maxime Bernier for the 2021 election. The 2009 image is so old and does not represent his 2021 appearance as well. PascalHD (talk) 02:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The current box is a complete mess with far too much information in my opinion. Is there a good reason we're not just using the results by province box every previous canadian federal election uses? I see the previous discussion on this page asking for total number of votes, and that seems to have led to an absolutely gigantic box on Results breakdown of the 2021 Canadian federal election#Results by province which I also think is worse and more of a mess than the previous box, that is less useful for the reader. WanukeX (talk) 01:48, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We still don't have total number of votes cast in each province, so the present confusing box is not due to including that.

Oh you are referring to the box in the separate Wiki article "Results breakdown of the 2021..." this talk is about the wiki article "2021 Canadin election" article. 68.150.205.46 (talk) 16:34, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm talking about the box under "Results by Province" on this page, which different from the "results by province" box template that's been used for every previous federal election and is, as I said, a mess. WanukeX (talk) 23:09, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the decision to remove bold formatting from all recent Canadian elections raises an important issue, and I'd like to point out a logical fallacy behind the reasoning for this change.

Initially, the bold type was removed from the last two Canadian elections due to concerns that it could be "used for partisan purposes." However, it now appears that this change has been extended to all subsequent elections, even when the party with the most votes and most seats remains the same. This is a genetic fallacy—the formatting is being dismissed based on the perceived motivations of some users, rather than evaluating the formatting itself on its merit. The bold type simply highlights the factual winner in terms of votes and seats, and its purpose is to present clear, objective information, not to endorse a particular political narrative.

Furthermore, this change is inconsistent with how election results are handled in other countries. For example, pages on elections from countries like the UK or the US continue to use bold formatting for the party with the most votes and seats, regardless of whether it's the same party. The removal of bold formatting for Canadian elections, then, creates an arbitrary double standard, which risks appearing selective or politically motivated, rather than being based on a neutral and consistent rule.

If Wikipedia is committed to neutrality and consistency, the bold formatting should be applied uniformly across all election pages, regardless of whether the results are contentious or subject to partisan interpretation. Altering this based on perceived political implications undermines the encyclopedia’s goal of providing clear, impartial information. Faronnorth (talk) 02:46, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is odd, yes. There's no good reason to treat Canada differently from any other country. Maybe worth a general discussion and potentially RfC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums? Elli (talk | contribs) 02:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's easy enough to find the info elsewhere in the article; bolding the results didn't seem to matter to most editors until the winning party did not get the largest share of the popular vote. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 03:03, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]