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==Usage==
Copy and paste one of the following for use in articles. If not sure what to put in them, look at the Fields section below.

===For federal divisions===
<pre>{{Infobox Australian electorate
| federal            = yes
| name               = 
| image              = 
| image_upright      = 
| image_alt          = 
| caption            = 
| created            = 
| mp                 = 
| mp-party           = 
| namesake           = 
| electors           = 
| electors_year      = 
| electors_footnotes = 
| area               = 
| class              = 
| coordinates        = <!-- {{coord|LAT|S|LON|E|display=inline,title}} -->
| near-n             = 
| near-ne            = 
| near-e             = 
| near-se            = 
| near-s             = 
| near-sw            = 
| near-w             = 
| near-nw            = 
| footnotes          = 
}}</pre>

===For state lower house districts===
<pre>{{Infobox Australian electorate
| name               = 
| state              = 
| image              = 
| image_upright      = 
| image_alt          = 
| caption            = 
| created            = 
| mp                 = 
| mp-party           = 
| namesake           = 
| electors           = 
| electors_year      = 
| electors_footnotes = 
| area               = 
| class              = 
| coordinates        = <!-- {{coord|LAT|S|LON|E|display=inline,title}} -->
| near-n             = 
| near-ne            = 
| near-e             = 
| near-se            = 
| near-s             = 
| near-sw            = 
| near-w             = 
| near-nw            = 
| footnotes          = 
}}</pre>

===For state upper house divisions or provinces===
<pre>{{Infobox Australian electorate
| upper              = yes
| name               = 
| state              = 
| image              = 
| image_upright      = 
| image_alt          = 
| caption            = 
| created            = 
| mp                 = 
| mp-party           = 
| namesake           = 
| electors           = 
| electors_year      = 
| electors_footnotes = 
| area               = 
| class              = 
| coordinates        = <!-- {{coord|LAT|S|LON|E|display=inline,title}} -->
| near-n             = 
| near-ne            = 
| near-e             = 
| near-se            = 
| near-s             = 
| near-sw            = 
| near-w             = 
| near-nw            = 
| footnotes          = 
}}</pre>

==Fields==
All fields used by this template are optional. Leaving "federal" or "upper" blank assumes "no" on each. The following fields are available:

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="background-color: white;"
! scope="col" style="background-color: whitesmoke;" | Field name
! scope="col" style="background-color: whitesmoke;" | Description
! scope="col" style="background-color: whitesmoke;" | Valid for<br /><small>blank = all</small>
! scope="col" style="background-color: whitesmoke;" | Source/notes
! scope="col" style="background-color: whitesmoke;" | Values
|-
| scope="row" | federal
| is it federal?
|
|
| 'yes'
|-
| scope="row" | upper
| is it a state upper house district? (ignored if incorrectly used)
|
|
| 'yes'
|-
| scope="row" | name
| name of electorate
|
|
|  plain text (e.g. Werriwa)
|-
| scope="row" | state
| state abbreviation
|
|
| 'nsw', 'vic', 'qld', 'sa', 'wa', 'tas', 'act', 'nt'
|-
| scope="row" | image
| image or map relevant to electorate
|
|
| filename
|-
| scope="row" | image_upright
| width of generic image of the locality
|
| This is an optional field. If not specified, the image width will default to {{para|upright|1.23}}, which is approximately 270px if the default thumbnail size has not been changed at [[Special:Preferences]]) The size should not be set to a value that would result in an image width greater than 300px. See [[#Calculating "image_upright"|help below]] for guidance on determining the value to be used.
| number
|-
| scope="row" | image_alt
| [[MOS:ALT|Alt text]] for the image
| 
| 
| wikitext (can contain links)
|-
| scope="row" | caption
| caption for the locality image
|
|
| wikitext (can contain links)
|-
| scope="row" | created
| date or year electorate was created
|
|
| year or wiki date
|-
| scope="row" | abolished
| date or year electorate was abolished
|
|
| year or wiki date
|-
| scope="row" | lifespan
| lifespan of electorate for cases where the seat has been recreated
|
|
| year or wiki date (e.g. 1890–1950, 1962–present)
|-
| scope="row" | mp
| current MP in office (for proportional, list of all MPs)
|
|
| plain text or wikilink
|-
| scope="row" | mp-party
| current party in office
|
|
| plain text or wikilink
|-
| scope="row" | namesake
| who or what electorate is named after
|
|
| plain text or wikilink
|-
| scope="row" | electors
| how many people are enrolled to vote in the area
|
|
| number, unformatted
|-
| scope="row" | electors_year
| year to which the figure in <code>electors</code> applies
|
|
| raw year
|-
| scope="row" | electors_footnotes
| footnote for <code>electors</code> figure
|
|
| wikitext (can contain links)<br />Best when used with <nowiki><ref> </ref></nowiki> tags
|-
| scope="row" | area
| area in square kilometres (do ''not'' use commas or punctuation)
|
|
| number
|-
| scope="row" | class
| AEC class of the electorate (e.g. Rural)
|
|
| plain text
|-
| scope="row" | coordinates
| coordinates of the electorate; use "display=inline,title"; region is set automatically based on {{para|state}}.
|
| {{UF-coord}}
| Example:<br /><nowiki>{{Coord|32|45|41.3|S|151|44|38.6|E|display=inline,title}}</nowiki>
|-
| scope="row" | near-n/ne/e/se/s/sw/w/nw
| neighbouring electorates
| small electorates
| Only electorates that share borders with the subject electorate should be included in these fields. Do ''NOT'' use on large electorates.
| plain text, link
|-
| scope="row" | footnotes
| footnotes
| 
| 
| wikitext (can contain links)<br />Best when used with <nowiki><ref> </ref></nowiki> tags and a citation template such as {{tl|cite web}}
|}

== Notes ==
{{#section:Template:Infobox Australian place/doc|image_upright}}

=== Footnotes field ===
Any references should be placed within the "footnotes" field and not within the field reserved solely for a numeric value. Otherwise, an error may result.

=== Unformatted numbers and expression errors ===
Certain fields require numeric values to be entered in an unformatted/raw fashion—i.e. 1000.0 NOT 1,000.0.  If an expression error is present, simply remove any commas or spaces from the number.

== Tracking categories ==
* {{clc|Pages using infobox Australian electorate with unknown parameters}} – Articles that include deprecated or otherwise invalid fields are automatically added.
* {{clc|Pages using infobox Australian electorate with near parameters}} – Articles using "near" fields (<code>near-n</code>, <code>near-ne</code>, <code>near-e</code>, <code>near-se</code>, <code>near-s</code>, <code>near-sw</code>, <code>near-w</code> and <code>near-nw</code>) are automatically added. These fields should not be used on large electorates and may become inaccurate after electoral redistributions are completed, so their use needs to be tracked.

== Subpages ==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Infobox Australian electorate}}

== Microformat ==
{{UF-hcard-geo}}

<templatedata>
{
	"params": {
		"name": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "Name of electorate",
			"type": "line",
			"label": "Name"
		},
		"federal": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "If a federal electorate, put 'yes', otherwise blank",
			"type": "line",
			"label": "Federal?"
		},
		"state": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "If a state electorate (upper or lower), put one of 'nsw', 'vic', 'qld', 'sa', 'wa', 'tas', 'act', 'nt'",
			"type": "line",
			"label": "State"
		},
		"upper": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "If a state upper-house electorate, put 'yes', otherwise blank",
			"type": "line",
			"label": "State upper house?"
		},
		"image": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "File name for the image (omit the 'File:' prefix)",
			"type": "line",
			"label": "Image"
		},
		"image_size": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Image size"
		},
		"imagesize": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Imagesize"
		},
		"image_upright": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Image upright"
		},
		"image_alt": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Image alt"
		},
		"alt": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Alt"
		},
		"caption": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "Description of the image",
			"type": "string",
			"label": "Caption"
		},
		"created": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Created"
		},
		"abolished": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Abolished"
		},
		"lifespan": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "years (e.g. 1890–1950, 1962–present)",
			"type": "string",
			"label": "Lifespan"
		},
		"mp": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "Name of current member of parliament (for proportional, list of all MPs)",
			"type": "string",
			"label": "MP name(s)"
		},
		"mp-party": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "Party of current member of parliament (for proportional, list all parties)",
			"type": "string",
			"label": "MP party"
		},
		"namesake": {
			"suggested": true,
			"description": "Who or what is the electorate named after?",
			"type": "line",
			"label": "Namesake"
		},
		"electors": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Electors"
		},
		"electors_year": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Electors year"
		},
		"electors_footnotes": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Electors footnotes"
		},
		"area": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Area"
		},
		"area_footnotes": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Area footnotes"
		},
		"class": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Class"
		},
		"coordinates": {
			"suggested": true,
			"label": "Coordinates"
		},
		"footnotes": {
			"required": false,
			"label": "Footnotes"
		}
	},
	"description": "For Australian lower house electorates and for State upper and lower house electorates"
}
</templatedata>

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