Draft talk:Candidates of the 2025 Canadian federal election

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Too soon?

I noticed that every time I submitted this article for approval, I got the notice that the topic is too soon to be added. However, past elections have added their candidate pages roughly 18 months in advance, which is less than the time it takes until the next election. Additionally, reliable media sources are already talking about current candidates, https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elections-nomination-conservatives-liberals-ndp-bloc-1.7203859 demonstrating that the matter is topical and worthy to be added as a source.

Whoever is responsible to approve this page, please approve it as the page's topicality is well established. CJJ400 (talk) 18:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Everything's cited now, so that issue's taken care of. Hopefully it'll be approved soon. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 20:16, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that's it's "too soon"; an election could be called at any time since we're in a minority government situation. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:52, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly 300 candidates nominated by their parties so far. I guess we wait until it passes 500 and try again. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 16:02, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If a snap election is called at some point this fall, then the article can be rapidly moved into place at that time. But until that actually happens, the fact that it's theoretically possible is not a compelling reason why a candidate list would need to already be preemptively in place this far in advance of an election that is officially scheduled for October 2025. And no, it has not been typical for candidate lists to routinely be in place 18 months in advance of federal elections; I'm sure you can find examples of that happening, but it's quite routinely been seen as WP:TOOSOON, and articles created that early have regularly been either deleted or sandboxed, and then restored later on when the time frame before the election was more reasonable.

And further, Wikipedia practices have often evolved over the years, with us being a lot more strict about many things in 2024 than we were in 2004 or 2014, so what we might have done a decade or two ago is not relevant to how things would be done today at all.

There simply is no pressing reason why this article would need to already be in mainspace now. If a snap election does get called before October of next year, then we'll deal with that when we get there — but until a snap election does get called there's no urgent need for a candidate list to be in place any earlier than six months before the officially scheduled election. Bearcat (talk) 17:21, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/singh-says-the-ndp-will-vote-to-bring-this-government-down-in-new-letter-1.7153541 how about now? CJJ400 (talk) 17:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why were so many PPC candidates removed?

Various tweets on X.com have mentioned candidates leaving the party following the hiring of a new media director earlier this year. While only eight people appear on the PPC Candidates on their website, many more have fundraising pages in their name, including at least two people known to have withdrawn as candidates. Because of this, the party website's fundraising pages can no longer be considered a reliable source for candidacy. I've used footnotes and hidden text for people with fundraising pages but no other reliable evidence of being a current candidate. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 20:36, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Candidates have been restored to the party website, so they've been restored here. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 19:48, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FAQ

Q: Why are some names in different fonts?

A: Party nominees and self-declared independents are in normal text; they should be on the ballot in the election if nothing unforeseen happens. Parties often have pages that list their candidates, but candidates can also be known from other sources.

Contestants, people who are known to be seeking their party's nomination, are in italics. The Conservatives, for example, often have several people publicly declaring they're seeking the nomination in a particular riding.
~~Former contestants~~ are people who didn't make it to the vote at their nomination contest. Contestants sometimes withdraw; parties can disqualify contestants before local members vote on who to nominate.
Sometimes parties change candidates, in which case a footnote is added so editors won't add them to the page again. Candidates can get sick, have for a new job, say or post something embarrassing to the party, or even die before the election.

Q: Why doesn't Party X get its own column?

A: There's only so much space on a page, so not every party gets its own column.

Parties that won seats in the last election get their own column, ranked by how many seats they won: Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc Québécois (only in Québec), NDP, Greens; everyone else goes under Other.

Candidates in Other have their affiliation in parentheses.
If an unelected party has candidates in 50% of the ridings in a region, it gets its own column.
If there's only one affiliation for Other column entries, the header gets changed. (e.g. A solitary independent and no minor party candidates would mean the column heading gets changed to Independent; if a Libertarian candidate was declared for the region, the heading would change back to Other and their affiliations would be added beside their names.)

Q: Why are some provinces broken into regions? (How are regions determined?)

A: Small groups are easier to edit and to find from the table of contents. Some editor(s) chose the regions for earlier results pages and they're adapted to new riding boundaries with each redistribution.

Q: Why are the provinces in east-west order? (Why is PEI listed before Nova Scotia?)

A: The Representation Order that describes the electoral districts starts with Newfoundland & Labrador and runs roughly clockwise, which is why Prince Edward Island comes before Nova Scotia. The RO doesn't list the Territories. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 23:41, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Title

The draft title should be changed to Candidates of the 2025 Canadian federal election, FWIW. GoodDay (talk) 18:49, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 22:50, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]