Module:United Nations Security Council election results/doc

Usage

This module produces a table of results of elections of non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

The numbered arguments contain the votes for the individual countries. Each numbered argument should be a colon-separated list, the last element of which is a comma-separated list of vote counts in the rounds of voting. The remaining elements are the name and arguments of a template to be called to display the country. Usually, this will just be the three-letter country code, so a typical argument would be ITA:65,108,128, which displays the country as {{ITA}} → Italy. Some South American countries use a special state variant of their flag at the United Nations; the more general form of the argument allows for such variants; e.g. flag:Peru:state:99,101 displays the country as {{flag|Peru|state}} → Peru.

The named arguments are as follows:

Parameter	Description	Status
valid	counts of valid ballots	required
invalid	counts of invalid ballots	optional
abstentions	counts of abstentions	required
group	regional group(s)	required
ref	content for reference tag	optional
ref_name	name for reference tag	optional

The counts are specified as comma-separated lists. The counts of valid ballots and abstentions are required; they are used to calculate the number of members present and voting (valid ballots minus abstentions) and the required two-thirds majority (two thirds of those present and voting, rounded up). The counts of invalid ballots may also be specified; they are only displayed if they are not all zero. If at least one of ref and ref_name is specified, a reference tag is inserted after the table's title. Any number of such reference tags can be produced using ref2 and/or ref_name2 etc. (with ref1 and ref_name1 being aliases for ref and ref_name, respectively).

The named arguments with counts must specify a count for each round. The numbered arguments may specify fewer counts; the remaining counts are taken to be zero. (This is useful when a country withdraws during the election.) Zero counts for countries (whether specified or not) are displayed as dashes; zero counts in named arguments are displayed as zeros. Country vote counts greater or equal to the required majority are displayed in bold.

Example

{{#invoke:United Nations Security Council election results|table
|ETH:185
|KAZ:113,138
|THA:77,55
|valid=192,193
|invalid=1,0
|abstentions=2,0
|group=African and Asia-Pacific Groups
|ref_name=ga
|ref={{UN document|docid=A/70/PV.106|body=A|session=70|type=V|meeting=106|meetingtime=10 a.m.|page=2|date=28 June 2016|accessdate=4 August 2024}}
}}

African and Asia-Pacific Groups election results
Member	Round 1	Round 2
Ethiopia	185	—
Kazakhstan	113	138
Thailand	77	55
valid ballots	192	193
invalid ballots	1	0
abstentions	2	0
present and voting	190	193
required majority	127	129