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Template:United States presidential election
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Description
This is a meta-template to facilitate writing navigation templates for Uncyclopedia's United States presidential election articles. It abstracts table coding to simplify {{2008Pres}}, {{2012Pres}}, {{2016Pres}}, etc.
Usage
{{United States presidential election|year=year|Democratic=list|Republican=list|Third=list|below=text}}
Parameters
|year=
(required)- Election year
|Democratic=
(optional)[note 1]- Democratic Party candidates as a bulleted list, enclosed in
<div>…</div>
- Democratic Party candidates as a bulleted list, enclosed in
|Republican=
(optional)[note 1]- Republican Party candidates as a bulleted list, enclosed in
<div>…</div>
- Republican Party candidates as a bulleted list, enclosed in
|Third=
(optional)- Third party candidates as a bulleted list, enclosed in
<div>…</div>
- Third party candidates as a bulleted list, enclosed in
|below=
(optional)- Passed to {{Navbox}} for text below the candidates
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 It's technically possible to specify no candidates whatsoever, although it doesn't make much sense for a two-party nation.
Examples
2016
Demonstrating application of the |below=
parameter.
{{United States presidential election |year=2016 |Republican=<div> * [[Jeb Bush]] * [[Ben Carson]] * [[Chris Christie]] * [[Ted Cruz]] * [[Carly Fiorina]] * [[Jim Gilmore]] * [[Mike Huckabee]] * [[John Kasich]] * [[Rand Paul]] * [[Rick Perry]] * [[Marco Rubio]] * [[Rick Santorum]] * <s>[[Donald Trump]]</s><sup>†</sup> </div> |Democratic=<div> * [[Hillary Clinton]] * [[Bernie Sanders]] </div> |below=<sup>†</sup>Currently boycotting {{Wordmark}} until a certain moderator is removed who is Third-rate and her career is all washed up }}
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2008
Demonstrating that Third-party candidates only show up when non-empty.
{{United States presidential election |year=2008 |Republican=<div> * [[John McCain]] * [[Rudy Giuliani]] * [[Mike Huckabee]] * [[Ron Paul]] * [[Mitt Romney]] * [[Tom Tancredo]] * [[Fred Thompson]] * [[Tommy Thompson]] </div> |Democratic=<div> * [[Barack Obama]]/[[Baraq Hussein Osama]] * [[Hillary Clinton]] * [[John Edwards]] </div> |Third=<div> * [[Ralph Nader]] </div> }}
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