Commons:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/USA election map naming conventions

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USA election maps should follow enwiki's NCELECT guideline. In particular, their names should be derivable from their respective articles' names.

Colors used should be those listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/USA Legend Colors.

For nationwide maps, results map is an appropriate suffix. For maps by county/parish/municipality/precinct, that should be part of the suffix, for example results map by county or results map by municipality. The same applies to referendum results.

Examples
Article name File name Notes
2020 United States gubernatorial elections File:2020 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
2020 United States Senate elections File:2020 United States Senate elections results map.svg
2020 United States Senate election in Iowa File:2020 United States Senate election in Iowa results map by county.svg
2018 United States Senate election in Vermont File:2018 United States Senate election in Vermont results map by county.svg and File:2018 United States Senate election in Vermont results map by municipality.svg
2018 Michigan Proposal 2 File:2018 Michigan Proposal 2 results map by county.svg
2020 United States presidential election File:2020 United States presidential election results map by county.svg County results nationwide. The base name should be an electoral college map in this case.
2021 Wisconsin elections § Superintendent of Public Instruction File:2021 Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction election results map by county.svg Since the race doesn't have its own article, we follow what it would've been named if it did.
2018 California gubernatorial election File:2018 California gubernatorial primary election results map by county.svg (primary) and File:2018 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg (general) Top-two primaries are named with "primary" after the election year and type if two candidates will always advance to the general election (such as in California).

If not (in cases where if a candidate breaks 50%, they win without a further election, such as in Louisiana), that primary is considered the general election and the run-off is named accordingly. This is the case regardless of the timing of the elections.

2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana File:2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg (general) and File:2016 United States Senate runoff election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg (run-off)

Note: this is currently a WIP, see here for progress details

Set categories:

all indexed in Category:Set election maps of the United States.

Misc tracking cats

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