Module talk:Political party

Edit request 5 November 2025

Description of suggested change: For Latvia's Development isn't using #FFDD00 since the end of 2023. However, based on their webpage it appears that they use #f2f2f2, #000000, and #003399. Since yellow isn't used anymore, it might be better to change it to blue #003399, or maybe light gray #f2f2f2.

Example: https://attistibai.lv/pv2025

SleepyChipmunk456 (talk) 21:07, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Update Latvia's public broadcaster used just pure black #000000 during last municipal elections for this party. Example: https://www.lsm.lv/pasvaldibu-velesanas-2025/marupes-novads

Also their party statues states defines official colors in appendix to statues. Statutes: https://attistibai.lv/statuti/

SleepyChipmunk456 (talk) 22:38, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

@SleepyChipmunk456: attistibai.lv is dead. thus On hold Oreocooke (talk) 21:39, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

The website works again. SleepyChipmunk456 (talk) 23:03, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Change color

Change Indian National Congress (R)'s color to #0EF4E1 and Indian National Congress (I)'s color to #00BFFF 4774அப்செ (talk) 14:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome to make that change. Primefac (talk) 13:42, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

how to make it 4774அப்செ (talk) 13:56, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

See Module:Political party § Updating the module and then update Module:Political party/I accordingly. Primefac (talk) 14:00, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

please u itself change it please 4774அப்செ (talk) 14:07, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done CardboardLamp (^T_C) 02:29, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 15 December 2025

Change Plaid Cymru colour from #005b54 to #008672

New brand guidelines: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/plaid2016/pages/16111/attachments/original/1765469850/_Plaid_Cymru_Brand_Guidelines_.pdf?1765469850 Sion Gwilym (talk) 08:44, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done CardboardLamp (^T_C) 02:32, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

@CardboardLamp Thank u bro Also taught me how to change the color because I want to interchange the colors Janata Party with Janta Party (Secular) & Communist Party of India (Marxist) with Communist Party of India colors. 4774அப்செ (talk) 06:20, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello @4774அப்செ, please take a look at Module:Political party § Updating the module, that's where the instructions are. CardboardLamp (^T_C) 04:27, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Edit request 30 December 2025

Description of suggested change: Interchange the colors of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (OPS), Communist Party of India with Communist Party of India (Marxist) & Janata Party (Secular) with Janata Party Lokdal color with Bharatiya Lok Dal colorDiff: Warning Unnamed parameter |1= set to default value. Please change it. Failure to use {{Text diff}} to specify your requested text changes, if not adequately described above, may lead to your request being denied.
4774அப்செ (talk) 08:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

 Not done These changes need to be made at Module:Political party/A and other pages, depending on the starting letter of the political party. Please make sure that you have a good reference to support each change. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:13, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Is I can change the colour @MPGuy2824 4774அப்செ (talk) 06:40, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

As you know in India, anything political can be contentious. If you want to be safe, I'd suggest that you start a section about this in Talk:Amma_Makkal_Munnetra_Kazhagam and similarly for the other two changes. You will need a good source for each to show that this change is needed. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:46, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Change of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam to 4B6F44 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (OPS) to 034F38 Communist Party of India (Marxist) to f50222 Communist Party of India to cc0d0d Janata Party Secular to 1F75FE Janata Party to 06038D Bharatiya Lok Dal to 00FF66 Lokdal to F8F9FA 4774அப்செ (talk) 10:46, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done no sources presented to justify such a change. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

the color of Nationalist Congress Party with FFC0CBNationalist Congress Party (pre–2023) with 00B2B2 4774அப்செ (talk) 14:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Change Tisza Party color

Please change Tisza party color to #88E8FF, this is what the party uses on it's official website, graphs. The current red is used only in logo and is not any more a primary color than the green in the same logo. Rankedchoicevoter (talk) 18:49, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

You are welcome to make that change yourself. Primefac (talk) 21:30, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 January 2026

Change Forward Party (US) colour from to #182742 to #480D67. This is the colour described on Forward Party (United States). It is also more prominent on Forward Party media than the current dark blue colour that it is. DerpyRainbow (talk) 23:20, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: please make your requested changes to the module's sandbox first. See WP:TESTCASES.

more like not done for now to be honest. Nugs T·C (they/she) 16:19, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I believe i've done that now. I don't seem to be able to make a sandbox for the documentation, though. DerpyRainbow (talk) 18:11, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done — chrs || talk 22:23, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 24 January 2026

For the Portuguese Socialist Party, I think a less vibrant pink would fit better the party, since it doesn't really use bright pink in its visual identity or propaganda, so to be closer to it's actual visuals, and to keep it diferent from other left wing parties that use red like PCP, I recomend this Brilliant Rose tone: #EE4B9D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyeme (talk • contribs) 21:56, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Not done for now':' There is an ongoing discussion on this matter at Talk:Socialist Party (Portugal), which should be resolved before changing the color here. — chrs || talk 04:22, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 25 January 2026

Description of suggested change:

The addition of Saisei no Michi, the Path to Rebirth Party. You can find Saisei no Michi's Japanese wikipedia page here. I have taken the colour from there.

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["Saisei no Michi"] = {abbrev = , color = "#490f73", shortname = "the Path to Rebirth",}

Notconnor (talk) 01:24, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done I've used the color #6E126F which is being used in 2025 Tokyo prefectural election. — chrs || talk 04:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 28 January 2026 (Farnham Residents)

Description of suggested change: Please change the colour of the Farnham Residents Group from pink to #78be21 (which is the one they seem to be using on their website). Thanks!

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["Farnham Residents"] = {color = "pink"},

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["Farnham Residents"] = {color = "#78be21"},

Amberkitten (talk) 22:29, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

 Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 00:03, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 1 February 2026

change Nationalist Congress Party to #FFC0CB and #00B2B2 to Nationalist Congress Party (pre–2023) 4774அப்செ (talk) 08:16, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Already done I see you've handled this yourself. — chrs || talk 03:24, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Color of Liberal Democrats UK

Hi So I'm moving an earlier discussion to this talk page, concernign the color of the party Liberal Democrats UK. So sometime last year, the color of the Liberal Democrats was updated to match a new branding by the party. This resulted in the party now having 2 colors in the module. Both of these are being used at the moment, where pages concerning the parties before the branding, are colored another color. ["Liberal Democrats (UK)"] = {abbrev = "Lib Dem", color = "#FAA61A", shortname = "Liberal Democrats",},

["Liberal Democrats (UK, 2025)"] = {abbrev = "Lib Dem", color = "#FF6400", shortname = "Liberal Democrats",},

I believe this is bit too much, and confusing. Why have 2 colors for the party, instead of just one. This can cause some confusion, as to whether an orange LD is the same as a yellow LD, as they look different. Thomediter (talk) 10:46, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit request

Please add "TPSL" as the abbreviation for "Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders". ~2026-82979-8 (talk) 18:29, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done 🍅 fx (talk) 19:10, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit Request for Working Families Party: 2026-02-06

Change the Working Families Party from #f598e2 to #f4563b. I'm not sure why the listed color is pink (#f598e2) when the Wikipedia page lists the color code as orange (#f4563b). Assuming that the Working Families Party listed here and the page are the same party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party JProcino (talk) 23:43, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done 🍅 fx (talk) 19:31, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Colour Code for Janata Unnayan Party

To give a party colour for Janata Unnayan Party based in West Bengal. The party colour is #8AB800. Kindly add it to your database. ~2026-86170-4 (talk) 09:44, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. Never mind, the color is listed at Janata Unnayan Party. 🍅 fx (talk) 18:57, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done 🍅 fx (talk) 00:38, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Party Colour of Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

To change the colour of Liberal Democratic Party (Japan). It has changed its colour to red. Hence change it. ~2026-86170-4 (talk) 14:35, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Already done - the color is listed under the name Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, 2017) 🍅 fx (talk) 19:37, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Historical color for Lakas-NUCD (1991–2004)

I would like to open a discussion regarding color handling, specifically for historical party names and branding. I am not requesting an immediate change or addition of colors, but would like to seek consensus on how similar cases have been handled and whether a comparable approach may apply here.

As a point of comparison, in South Korea’s People Power Party, the party displays a red color when the current name is used in election infoboxes. However, its former name, United Future Party, is assigned a separate pink color in the module, even though it does not have a standalone article and only exists as a redirect. The infobox reflects the historical party name used at the time rather than retroactively applying the current party’s color.

In this context, I would like to discuss a similar scenario involving Lakas-NUCD, separate from Lakas-CMD (1991). Although Lakas-NUCD currently redirects to Lakas–CMD, its branding during the 1991–2004 period notably differed. Contemporary campaign materials from the 1992 Ramos campaign and the 1998 Jose “Joe” de Venecia campaign show consistent use of yellow, which was closely associated with People Power-era imagery.

The powder blue color currently used for Lakas-CMD (1991) appears to have been introduced later, during the 2004 campaign of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, following the party’s renaming to Lakas-CMD. Given this distinction, I would like to ask whether it would be appropriate to consider a separate module color entry for Lakas-NUCD, similar to how other historically distinct party names are handled.

Links: https://gulfnews.com/uae/arroyo-de-castro-plan-grand-start-to-campaign-1.310108 [Earlier, she expressed a preference for powder blue (instead of dark blue)]

https://rigobertotiglao.com/2022/05/16/the-people-have-their-reasons/ [The crushing of the RAM-led coups right after EDSA in 1986, however, intimidated the nation to accept the three Yellow regimes (Cory's, Ramos' and Aquino 3rd) and their narratives.]

[Image shows Secretary Ramos wear yellow while campaigning with then-President Corazon Aquino]: https://media.gettyimages.com/id/898204642/photo/manilla-philippines-philippines-presidential-election-candidate-fidel-ramos-calls-for-support.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=8BhJC66CrZqH3CRkj-hN8-ko-6d8bfpylYPeSdjRrno=

Request to add colour for Left Front (Tripura)

Please add an entry for: "Left Front (Tripura)" = "#FF0000", This is required to display properly in election templates. The colour is consistent with CPI(M)-led Left Front usage in Tripura.

Thank you. Bdm166 (talk) 10:11, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Go for it. Primefac (talk) 11:49, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 12 February 2026

Description of suggested change: Adding a new entry for the People's Party (Myanmar), after it won a significant number of votes during the recent election.

Diff: ["People's Party (Myanmar)"] = {abbrev = "PP", color = "FAFA0C", shortname = "People's Party",},

YoungArkas (talk) 11:53, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done phuzion (talk) 12:42, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 13 February 2026

Description of suggested change: Adding a new entry for the Alternativa (Kosovo), after it won a significant number of votes during the recent election.

Diff: ["Alternativa (Kosovo)"] = {abbrev = "Alternativa", color = "D0A153", shortname = "Alternativa",},

 Done with the exception of removing the abbreviation. phuzion (talk) 19:34, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

phuzion, please check and fix {{Party color|Alternativa (Kosovo)}}, as the color #D0A153 is still not displaying. BalkanianActuality (talk) 09:27, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Should be good now, thanks for the heads up! phuzion (talk) 11:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 14 February 2026

Description of suggested change: Change the abbreviation of Serb List (Kosovo) from 'Serb List' to 'SL'.
(phuzion, can you change?)

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["Serb List (Kosovo)"] = {abbrev = "", color = "#173968", shortname = "Serb List",},

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["Serb List (Kosovo)"] = {abbrev = "SL", color = "#173968", shortname = "Serb List",},

— Preceding unsigned comment added by BalkanianActuality (talk • contribs) 11:45, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

 Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 16:22, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Paine Ellsworth, please review it again, as the abbreviation “SL” is still not being applied, meaning it is still being displayed as “Serb List". BalkanianActuality (talk) 01:27, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

At the link you provided the abbreviation in the infobox is "SL". Where are you seeing it displayed otherwise? Be sure to purge your cache to draw up a fresh rendition of the page. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 01:35, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Paine Ellsworth, the change is not being reflected in “Cabinet of Avdullah Hoti#Composition” and in any of the variants of Template:Party name with color that I use, it still appears as “Serb List” rather than “SL,” even though I cleared the cache before rechecking. BalkanianActuality (talk) 01:49, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

The Cabinet of Avdullah Hoti#Composition link works correctly now. Let me know if you still see a problem. Seems the way to fix this was to eliminate the "short name". Apparently templates look for a short name first, and then look for the abbreviation if the short name is missing. Hope this helps! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 03:58, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

​ Please don't just go eliminating shortnames; {{Party name with color}} and other templates that wrap this have an |abbrev= parameter that can set the desired value. Primefac (talk) 23:38, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

To editor Primefac: self-reverted – now how do we fix the ones at the link above, Cabinet of Avdullah Hoti#Composition, where the {{Cabinet table minister}} template is used with parameter |ministerx_party=Serb List (Kosovo)? These use the short name over the abbreviation unless the short name is eliminated. I can't find an |abbrev= parameter anywhere in that. I looked at a bunch of these in this module and found none that had both an abbreviation and a short name. They either had one or the other or neither. Couldn't find one that had both. That's why I took out the short name when I added the abbreviation, and that made the {{Cabinet table minister}} template at the above link use the abbreviation, "SL". To editor BalkanianActuality: want you to be aware of this issue. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 00:03, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

In the short term, let's just leave it as-is. From the looks of it, a lot of these "short names" are just removing the parenthetical disambiguator. I don't know of any situation where we want that content to be included in the invocation, so I'll see if I can get the module to strip out those bits. If that works (and I don't muck up 50% of extant transclusions) then those minus-parens shortnames can be removed, hopefully solving this issue for any similar party that doesn't have a shortname. If I can't get it by the week's end, I'll restore the lack of shortname for this specific use case. Primefac (talk) 00:18, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Okay, and thank you much for that! Sounds like it's way above my pay grade. ;>) P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 00:30, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

There are multiple examples of parties having part of their name in parentheses (e.g. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)), so automatically excluding it would not be a good idea.

The issue here has arisen due to the problematic nature of how information was migrated across to this module from the predecessor templates; there were previously templates for displaying party names to be used in tables ('abbrev' templates) and templates for displaying party names in infoboxes ('short name' templates). The names of those templates were not descriptions of the contents, just a convenient template name. However, when the modules were created, rather than create two fields with contents that matched the two sets of templates, the party names were mixed up, so if the content of a 'short name' template was an abbreviation, it was moved to the 'abbrev' field, and vice versa. Number 57 00:54, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

I wasn't suggesting removing the parens from any |shortname= I was suggesting removing it from any potential invocation where there wasn't a shortname. For example, if we had Party Party (Geneva) with no shortname or abbrev, a shortname call would return just Party Party. Otherwise, we would have to add |shortname=Party Party to the line. Primefac (talk) 01:09, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

That's what I was referring to though – what happens if there is a party currently without a shortname but with parentheses in their names. For example, Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre) or Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) currently do not have shortnames in the template. If you set up some sort of automated process, it would remove it from these two parties' names if they were called in some context. Number 57 01:15, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Number 57, the comparison with Nepalese party examples does not seem applicable here, as the “Kosovo” parenthetical in Serb List serves only as disambiguation from similarly named defunct parties in Montenegro and should not be treated as a functional shortname. BalkanianActuality (talk) 18:42, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Agreed; no one (that I know of) is using this module to link to parties, just to display a name; from the uses of the counterexample above I am only seeing colour calls (not names). To restate what i said above, I don't see an instance where someone would be looking for the name of a party and wanting to include the parenthetical (unless it is hardcoded into the stored shortname or abbrev). That being said, I have no issue being wrong, and if things get broken monumentally (I will of course sandbox fist) I will revert. Primefac (talk) 09:47, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

We seem to be talking at cross purposes here. My concern is that if you create a piece of code that automatically fills in the shortname field with party names minus bits in parentheses, should a party that has part of its proper name in parentheses be listed in an election infobox or certain types of table (which call on the shortname field), it will be listed in that infobox or table without the bit in parentheses; for example, Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre) would appear as Communist Party of Nepal, which is clearly not what we should be wanting to happen. Number 57 20:17, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

I see (and understand) your concern, and it's not unreasonable. What we have here, as mentioned above, is a module that was built to be a repository of information but with existing templates using that information in different ways. We built in a safeguard to deal with most of those issues, which is having the module return basically "whatever is available" so that (for example) if a shortname is asked for but not present, we assume that an abbrev is desired, because in "the old days" before this module that very well might have been the intention. That unfortunately backfires when both are present and abbrev really was the intended value.

In this particular case (and I suspect, a large number of similar ones based on what I've seen over the years) we have a shortname that is present whose sole purpose is to remove the parenthetical disambiguator, meaning that it is occasionally blocking the appropriate/desired abbrev being returned. For these cases, it makes more sense to remove the shortname and strip the () automatically. I genuinely don't know of, but I have yet to see, any case where a political party with a disambiguator is displayed using this template without removing that dab or otherwise shortening the name (see e.g. most of the other Communist Parties of Nepal). In other words, your concern is a perfectly valid one, but if it doesn't actually happen it's like prepping for snowfall in the middle of the summer.

Now, I have no issue being wrong here, but on the balance of how I see this going I genuinely don't see the proposed change (stripping the parens if there are no abbrev/shortname) causing any significant change to the visual display in the articles. If it does, however, I will of course reverse the edit, and we can reevaluate the situation here (which, in fairness, may be as simply as just removing the single shortname that prompted this whole mess). I'd rather clean up the code here, though, than try and nitpick every template out there, and this seems like a reasonable way to do it. Primefac (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Paine Ellsworth, thank you for the clarification. The edit had a practical purpose: to display the abbreviation “SL” in usages such as {{Cabinet table minister}}, where shortname currently overrides abbrev. The “Kosovo” parenthetical is only for disambiguation and should not function as a shortname. Until a broader module-level fix exists, restoring the configuration that displays “SL” would be reasonable. BalkanianActuality (talk) 18:40, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Please be patient. Editor Primefac has assured us above that if the issue in the module can't be solved by the end of the week, the edit I self-reverted will be reinstated. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 21:48, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

I'll be implementing shortly; it will probably be a good few hours before the module change shows up across the project, and I'll be unavailable for a few hours after making said edit, but unless things are actually breaking I would please ask that you hold off if things show differently so that any issues can be discussed. Primefac (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Cool, and thank you very much! and to editor BalkanianActuality, hope this edit resolves all the issues you mentioned at the start. Good hunting! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 16:42, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 19 February 2026

Change colorcode of National Alternative Movement: #0F7B61 to #0D7B60 Mold Edits (talk) 14:13, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Not done for now: I'm seeing multiple different conflicting colors for this party. Would you be able to provide a source for which shade is most accurate? — chrs || talk 23:13, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 19 February 2026

Description of suggested change: Correct the party color of the Communist Party of Germany to #8B0000 as it is the correct one, and also the one used by parliament diagrams in the English wikipedia and widely used as the KPD's color in general on other Wikipedias.

Ceedii1234 (talk) 18:43, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done Primefac (talk) 16:31, 21 February 2026 (UTC)