Template talk:Canadian party colour

can we add something to generate party names without wikilinks?

Can we add a |nolink= parameter which, when set to 'y' or 'yes', generates the short or full names without wikilinking them?

I'm thinking particularly of tables like "Seat changes" at 43rd Parliament of British Columbia where the same values are linked over and over again, resulting in an unnecessary sea of duplicate blue. I can remove the duplicate links generated in-article but there's currently no way to use this template in a way that doesn't link the party name each and every time. —Joeyconnick (talk) 00:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit Request: Liberal-Conservative in Nova Scotia

Linking "Liberal Conservative" (and "Liberal-Conservative") to either the redirect Liberal-Conservative Party of Nova Scotia or the current NS PC for the CanElec template page would be great. Prior to 1940 conservative candidates in Nova Scotia provincial elections were labeled as "Liberal Conservative". I have created a wikipedia redirect and a wikidata page to facilitate the upload of election results and parliamentary terms for wikidata for Nova Scotia from 1867-present (see the Wikidata every politician project for Canada). - Caddyshack01 (talk) 18:56, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I think I got it to work for you.-- Earl Andrew - talk 19:07, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, looks like it is working! - Caddyshack01 (talk) 19:20, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

I propose changing the colour of the Liberal Party of Canada to instead a more "objective" red

Moved from Talk:Liberal Party of Canada

Currently, the current colour attached to the Liberal Party is      #EA6D6A but if you search up on google:

Colour of the Liberal Party of Canada

and click on the images section, you can see the party color be instead a more "Objective red" (A red that more people would likely to state as red, rather then the current pink-red hybrid that would get people conflicted), specifically      #D91920 so that we can be more updated. Also the fact that the official website uses the color and WP:COMMONNAME wouldn't apply if "everybody uses it so I think we should do it as well for wikipedia!"

What do you guys think of it? Should we do it or should we keep the current colors as is?

Pinging @GoodDay, @GhostOfDanGurney, @Kawnhr, @MiltonC, @Politicsenthusiast06, @and @G. Timothy Walton because I did see their previous comments on past discussions. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 23:29, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Yup, change it to 'red'. GoodDay (talk) 23:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

It's already supposed to be #EA6D6A rather than #EEBBBB, which is various parties with Labour in the name, including Liberal–Labour.

This discussion should be mentioned on Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada/list of parties, even with the error. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 00:32, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

@G. Timothy Walton Do you like the move so far? GuesanLoyalist (talk) 01:40, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

This is the right place. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 01:57, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

I've also updated the color scheme from      #EEBBBB to      #EA6D6A for you as well, just to let you know. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 06:54, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Opposed. Unless we decide to change the Conservatives, NDP and Greens as well, as neither of them are using the proper colours. There are reasons they are all in pastel shades, so we'd have to address that first.-- Earl Andrew - talk 02:23, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

There are reasons they are all in pastel shades,

So, why are the party colors uses the incorrect colors rather then the actually correct colors in the first place? Any consensus somewhere?

so we'd have to address that first.

I'll try to do that for the other parties by making another post similar to this. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 02:59, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Care to explain the reason s for the pastel shades, @Earl Andrew? I have always find the pastel colours a bit odd and have never really learned why they were chosen. (Knowing that may save me from some otherwise off the mark arguments)

I don't feel particularly strongly one way or the other. I feel perhaps having a few guiding principal stated would help limit/streamline future debate on this. For example, I agree we should not change the colour just because the a party decided to tinker with hue by a little. But I also do not think the colours being used for fringe parties should have any bearing on decisions for major parties (like LPC and CPC). For practicaly usability reasons, I think the major parties (and major needs to be defined) should be given priority, and should have recognizable, distinguishable colours that are reasonably close to their official colour. Milton Chan (talk) 02:49, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

We adopted the light colours back in 2004 (I think) because we were using text on colour quite a bit back then. Of course, we don't do that as much anymore, but you can see from here Results of the 2025 Canadian federal election by riding we still use text on colour for a lot of headers. If all the major parties are black on colour, that looks better than having the odd one being white on colour, which would occur if we adopted darker colours.-- Earl Andrew - talk 16:30, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Another thing we have to keep in mind is we have picking colours for other parties very specifically to avoid being too close to the colours used for other parties. So, if we make any changes, we'd have to change the colours for other parties as well. The following party colours come to mind that are various shades of red:      #FF6347 (Communist);      #CD5C5C (Marxist-Leninist);      #FF0000 (Canada Party)      #DC143C (Canadian Action Party).-- Earl Andrew - talk 14:59, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose. The reason we don't always use the exact official colour is so that we can keep the parties easily distinct and readable at a glance, on graphs and tables and charts. Can you really distinguish between    and    without a label? What about if both had darker and lighter variants, like on election maps (eg: 2025 Canadian federal election#/media/File:Canada Election 2025 Results Map.svg)? What if we had to include   ? Arguably this is less of an issue for the Liberal Party, as nobody else major uses red, but as Earl Andrew points out, there are still minor parties who do — and they do still appear in tables. I think we have a greater responsibility to readers than to party branding guidelines.

Also, parties change their logos all the time. Check out Logopedia's pages for the Liberals and the Conservatives: literally every logo uses a different shade for the party's primary colour. Having to update our colour scheme every time a graphic designer comes around and tweaks the palette sounds annoying. If a party decided to adopt an entirely different colour, that would be one thing… but nobody is going to get confused about what represents whom just because our shades differ slightly. So we can just set it as something broadly correct and leave it be. — Kawnhr (talk) 18:15, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

What about perhaps the NDP and Greens? Should it also be kept as status quo? GuesanLoyalist (talk) 00:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

All the parties change their colour shades all the time. Do we really want to bring this up every few years?-- Earl Andrew - talk 05:56, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Well, the federal NDP has been remarkably consistent in their colour (but who knows about their next logo), but the provincial branches vary quite a bit. Here's six that I colour-picked, each from a different provincial party:                  . So updating our NDP colour to be "correct" isn't really going to solve the problem Canada-wide. So again, picking a shade that is broadly correct and not getting bogged down in the specifics the best solution here. (Provincial Liberal and Conservative parties are also often inconsistent with each other, incidentally). — Kawnhr (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

As well as for other parties such as the NDP, Conservatives, and Greens

Conservatives

     #6495ED should be instead      #142F52

NDP

     #F4A460 should be instead      #F58220

Greens

     #99C955 should be instead      #20A242

Bloc Quebec

     #87CEFA should be instead      #231E56

The Bloc looks too much like the Conservatives. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:47, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

What colours should we use instead for Bloc Quebec then? GuesanLoyalist (talk) 00:37, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Why not the status quo? This all seems like change for the sake of change from someone who is not even Canadian. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:57, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Why not the status quo?

The reason on why I would like to change the colors as the currently used ones are not on par with the actual colors used by the parties. As wikipedia is meant to be a site where accuracy should thrives. Not doing something just because of personal bias and preference isn't a good idea to do.

This all seems like change for the sake of change from someone who is not even Canadian.

1. I'm not doing it just for change and I actually want the colors to be connected and related with each other.
2. For the part of ...from someone who is not even Canadian does seem to suggest (but not explicitly say) that for those who aren't canadian, they shouldn't interact and edit articles in relations to canadian politics so I'm going to assume good faith on that one and think that you may have attempted to highlight that the process of doing my request is unnecessary. I would suggest try I think that this is unnecessary to do for someone that is not familiarised with Canadian politics. In Canada, we use any sort of generic colors to represent the political parties. An example of this would be someone using any shade of red to show about the Liberal Party.

GuesanLoyalist (talk) 06:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I understand your argument for wanting the colours to match their real life usage, however as shown in these discussions, we can't strive for perfection on this as colours (well, shades) are always changing. And the Bloc's colour is almost identical to the Conservatives. In the case of the Bloc, light blue (the status quo) makes sense, as this is the colour the media uses for them. This is where my dig at you not being Canadian comes in. It's fine and dandy if you follow Canadian politics heavily and you want to weigh in, but I'm not getting that impression (my apologies if I'm off base here). Someone who follows Canadian elections would probably know the media uses light blue for the Bloc. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:25, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

TBC, the Bloc used that light blue in their earlier logos, it's not something we picked arbitrarily. — Kawnhr (talk) 16:10, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Light blue is fine, I think. Most major media outlets use light blue for the Bloc (presumably to disambiguate with the Tories). See election coverage from the CBC, the Globe, and Le Devoir. ~2026-22294-09 (talk) 01:02, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

My proposed compromise

@Earl Andrew and Kawnhr: Although there is a clear majority between you two guys, I would still like for my suggestion to still be on equal levels and considered. So this is my proposal on what we all could do instead to reach a compromise.

Colour is consistent, well-recognised, and/or unmistakable with another party? Change it

Colour is inconsistent and most likely to be mistaken with another party? Keep the status quo then

For me personally, I think that is a good solution and consensus for us to reach as both of our points can still be considered equally.

GuesanLoyalist (talk) 21:50, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

@Earl Andrew and @Kawnhr, sorry to ping and all but have you actually made up your minds about this compromise? GuesanLoyalist (talk) 02:23, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Personally, I don't feel the need to change anything, so that's where my vote is at.-- Earl Andrew - talk 05:04, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

I would also Keep the status quo. I was even on the fence about changes we made years ago to change the shade of the BC Liberals to differentiate it from the federal Liberals, given that they were two separate parties. In the election results boxes, the election results infoboxes, etc. there are party names next to each party, so even if a reader is confused or mistaken, they can see that "Oh, this is for the Communist Party and not the Liberal Party", or "this is for the Bloc Quebecois and not the Conservatives". I think Earl Andrew brings up a good point here: is it our responsibility to WP:TNT a whole colour system because a party has decided to rebrand to a slightly different hexcode? There doesn't seem to be anything to "compromise" on here, since it appears to be one user pushing for a massive change. While they are within their right to do that per WP:BOLD, I hope they are OK if there is pushback against their proposed changes. Bkissin (talk) 15:57, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

I guess I'm just not sure what's being proposed at this stage. Sure, if there is a party that consistently uses a particular shade, which is also distinct from other parties and not likely to cause any display issues, then perhaps we should look into changing that. But do you have an example? It's hard to say anything one way or the other about your proposal without knowing what it's going to change. — Kawnhr (talk) 01:07, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Both the Liberal and Conservative parties consistently uses the same range of color with little to no difference between them. Even when they do change the colors, we have entire YEARS to move on with our lives until change do actually arrives. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 02:23, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

So you are reiterating your initial proposal to change the Liberal red (and Conservative blue) to the match the latest logo? I'm afraid my view about why that is not ideal has not changed. — Kawnhr (talk) 02:57, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

So you are reiterating your initial proposal to change the Liberal red (and Conservative blue) to the match the latest logo?

I wasn't meaning to, I was stating that there wasn't much changes with the colors. So probably not much of

I'm afraid my view about why that is not ideal has not changed.

Wasn't your viewpoint because it was pointless and wanting to make the colours distinct between each other for the parties? or was that for Earl Andrews? Another way that we could do the compromise is to take @Bkissin's idea and make the colors close but like close enough to the point that it's still differentiatable to the other parts (So that we won't avoid some confusions between Bloc Quebec and the Conservatives.) GuesanLoyalist (talk) 03:55, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

That's not my idea at all. My position is that the colors should not change. And reminder that it is Bloc Quebecois, not Bloc Quebec Bkissin (talk) 16:35, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

I am aware that it is Bloc Quebecois, but it's kinda hard for me to type in the special french letters so I just refer to it as Bloc Quebec. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 21:29, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

My view is that Wikipedia should use colours that best fit Wikipedia's use-cases. That means keeping the party colours distinct from one another, yes, but it also means using colours that lend themselves to lighter/darker shades to show vote margins on maps, or that create more contrast when text is on them (as Earl Andrew points out above), etc. I also think it is not worth aligning our scheme with every branding update because it will create inconsistencies with our graphics, which will not update their colours automatically… that's not the end of the world (and indeed we're not perfectly consistent even now), but still something we should aim to avoid if possible.

Also, I'm looking at other countries now, and I don't think there's even a hard and fast rule that we must use a colour picked from the logo. Conservative Party (UK), Democratic Party (United States), National Party of Australia, Bharatiya Janata Party, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)… none of their logos exactly match the colour Wikipedia represents them with. To be sure, lots of parties do match exactly. But if the argument to change the Liberal red is just because it's not official, I don't find that a compelling reason by itself. Especially because the current shade is arbitrary and will only be official until the next branding update, anyway. — Kawnhr (talk) 20:56, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

I see a consensus about not changing the colors being built, I'll agree and keep it the status quo as I can clearly see a majority opposing my suggestion. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 21:28, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit Request 16 May 2026 | Add Vote Vancouver under Vancouver Municipal Parties

New Vancouver Political Party, Vote Vancouver, does not have an assigned colour - should be set to #ffdc09 ~2026-24961-86 (talk) 19:47, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Done. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:56, 16 May 2026 (UTC)