"Is there anything to be said for another graph?"
I was doing some updates to the code used for creating the Timeline of the Irish Left recently and thought it might be interesting to use it again for electoral parties across the spectrum. Here's a first draft, likely with plenty more to add:
Timeline of Electoral Parties in the Republic of Ireland
So that the scope remains vaguely manageable, I've restricted it to including parties that have stood for elections at some point. Since some aren't necessarily registered, parties are included if:
- they have held seats at local or Oireachtas level in the Republic of Ireland, including by defection/formation by representatives elected for another party;
- they have at some point in their existence stood candidates for election, including where those candidates were officially 'Independent' due to lack of registration but were known to be running under the party banner.
Even with that restriction, it's surprising how many there are who stood one or a few candidates in local elections over the years. There are still plenty of omissions, but I've added all the parties from the left timeline who've stood in elections and all the low-hanging fruit from Wikipedia's lists of parties. I expect mining Irish Election Literature will turn up plenty more.
One of the features added to the code is the ability to add some information markers along the top of the timeline and on individual entries. If you hover over or touch these they expand – I've put the general, local and European elections in there, as well as a few markers on parties. (At some point I must revisit the left timeline as well and make use of these changes.)
It also will pull a few lines from Wikipedia when you click an entry, if it has a page there.
Any additions or corrections are welcome. If you're familiar with Github, you can make suggestions there, or otherwise, send an email or add a comment here.
If anyone wants to use the Timeline.js code for a project themselves, it's available on Github as well.
You might notice that the choice of position of some entries is a bit off, with crossing lines etc. The logic for doing that automatically needs some improving, which hopefully will get done in the next version.
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