Talk:2020 Malawian presidential election

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Requested move 18 February 2020[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved. This should have just been moved without starting an RM. Number 5 7 10:40, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2020 Malawian general election → 2020 Malawian presidential election – Requesting a page move (per WP:RM#CM point 2). This important edit by @Dadakim: points out that the few WP:RS available so far suggest that this is just a presidential election, and not a general election in which members of the National Assembly will be re-elected. I know that some very well-developed groups of pages have different categories and conventional titles for different types of elections (see for example List of elections in the United States); we have never previously had a reason to do that for Malawi, but now I think is the moment to adopt that convention here. Astrophobe (talk) 04:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Figures[edit]

There's something odd about the figures, either this page has them transposed or the MEC has them transposed but on the MEC page, with 550 published centres, it says 143,442 for Chakwera and 422,336 for Mutharika. That can't possibly translate into 74% for Chakwera? Akerbeltz (talk) 10:07, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Akerbeltz: Someone vandalised the article earlier. I've undone it. Number 5 7 10:50, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Result percentages[edit]

It says that Chakwera was elected with 59.34%. But if you head over to the Current events Portal here, the item says 58.7%. By my calculations and the BBC article that should be 58.57%: we have (Chakwera votes)/(total) = 2604043/4445699 = 58.57%, but it still doesn't agree with this article. What's to account for discrepancy? 314WPlay (talk) 12:20, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Only valid votes should not be considered when calculating the percentage. You're including the invalid ones in your calculation. Number 5 7 12:46, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]