Talk:2021 Bristol City Council election

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Events prior to the election[edit]

Can justification for including the 'Events prior to the election' section please be provided. It is not directly and objectively connected to the 2021 Bristol City Council election. At best I think it fails to meet relevance and is out of scope. At worst it fails NPOV with the intent to influence the readers viewpoint as to Mayor Marvin Rees and Conservative councillor Richard Eddy's suitability for political office by displaying their responses to a single event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.208.46.104 (talk) 19:09, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seconding this, it isn't a politically relevant issue to the council elections and I think it should be removed

How to calculate swing[edit]

Hello.

How are the values in the 'change in percentage value since previous election'/'±%' columns determined? Especially for the multiple councillor wards. Do you compare the corresponding candidates for each party, i.e. the higher placing 2016 Labour candidate is compared to the higher placing 2021 Labour candidate? What if the same candidate has run in both elections, but has been both the higher and the lower placing candidate, e.g. in the case of Dudd in Central ward?

Thank you

Tetanuran (talk) 13:56, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Usually for block voting people just calculate the swing on the top candidate for a party. Also, please remember when you write a comment on talk pages to sign your name after by adding the four tildes (~). They can either be typed or they appear on the panel below editing. Jonjonjohny (talk) 13:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Tetanuran (talk) 13:56, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]