Talk:2021 Bahamian general election

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@Fm3dici97: I'm a little confused about how you got the totals of the minor parties, but kept the vote totals of the major parties the same. The figures given in the two sources used in the results tables are different (for example, for Bain Town & Grants Town, one source has 1,835 for the PLP and one has 1,725. I had actually added up the Enews one a few days ago to see if it could be used for full results, but the figures were different to the Bahamas Local one, and Enews looked like it was less complete.

The totals for the major parties seem to be taken from here, while I assume from the edit summary that the remaining ones were calculated from here. However, the two shouldn't add up to the original total of 126,414, so I wondered if there was any assumptions being made (i.e. that the remainder of the votes to get to that total were from independents)? Cheers, Number 57 15:08, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Number 57:Premise: I am actually reviewing the party membership of members of small parties and some minor changes will be necessary. As for the results, I used the first source for the party figures, since it was the one already used, and the second for the party membership of all those that the first source listed simply as "independents". So apart from that detail of the DNA member wrongly listed (that gained 65 votes) the figures of the main parties should have remained the same. I honestly don't know why whoever edited the results before me chose the vote figures of the first source instead of those of the second one, I just sticked with that choice.

Just for reference, data about party membership can be found also here, That I think is the official authority for elections in Bahamas (the article of 2017 elections uses that as main source for the results), but there are two main problems: 1. Their data is inconsistent with that of the second source cited in the 2021 Elections article and 2. There are also some inconsistencies with "real" party membership: this source lists separately members of United Coalition and Bahamas Constitution Party, while UC is actually the resut of the merging of three parties, including BCP. Since the second source of the 2021 Elections article was consistent with that I chose that for checking party membership.--Fm3dici97 (talk) 15:43, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, sorry, I didn't see that the Bahamas Local source actually had broken out figures for the minor party candidates at the bottom (or perhaps they've only recently been added). Makes sense now, cheers. Number 57 16:13, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It seems Eyewitness News and Bahamas Local have yet to report 100% of the results in each constituency. Are we waiting on that for details such as the electoral map, etc.? – Starklinson 05:32 1 October 2020 UTC

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