There were previous questions on this already, and according to those it’s also implemented by now. And when looking at the source, I can indeed see an ID being set for every comment on election pages.
However, unlike comments on questions, there is no actual link for the permalink for comments on election pages:
Could those be added please so we can actually link to comments easily?
During the Arqade elections, I wrote a UserScript for this purpose.
It should match for Stack Overflow and Ask Ubuntu (the two current elections), so... should work. Install, go to page, link appears.
Image for demonstration:
These links do not onebox in chat, however, as they're not considered proper comment links like on other posts.
/elections, not elections/<id>). You could get the base URL for the current election from something like document.querySelector('.youarehere').href.split('?')[0] though. — That being said, I would prefer having this implemented properly of course, including integration into chat :)
I know it's a bit late for the current elections, but Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch 1.8 now includes a workaround for this bug, loosely based on FEichinger's script.
The core of the workaround is the following jQuery code:
var base = ( $('#tabs .youarehere').attr('href') || "" ).replace( /#.*/, "" );
$('.comment-date').not(':has(a)').wrapInner( function () {
var id = $(this).closest('.comment').attr('id');
return $('<a class="comment-link"></a>').attr('href', base + '#' + id);
} );
The base variable ensures that the links will lead to the correct tab (i.e. nominations), even if you haven't explicitly selected a tab. The full workaround included in SOUP also reapplies this fix whenever new comments are dynamically loaded, and also fixes the permalinks below each nomination post to always point at the correct tab.
Note that, due to missing JS support on the nomination pages, these permalinks look and behave somewhat differently than normal SE comment links. In particular, they don't have the same fancy highlight-and-fade behavior as normal comment links, they won't onebox in chat, and they may not work correctly if the comment being linked to is hidden by default.
Alas, these are not issues that can be easily fixed on the client side — even if I added the necessary code to SOUP, it wouldn't help anyone else who might follow the link while not using the same user script.
