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1. Add another New Election Date

   1. use the actual date of dissolution if know known

   2. or simply set it to 1 DAY BEFORE the election date you just entered

      1. eg: if the election was APRIL 1411^th, 2014, add a new election date of APRIL 1310^th, 2014

   3. This date serves as an extra data point to add in Seats At Dissolution data.

2. Clone the parties and ridings from the last election to the dissolution date.

   1. Start by ensuring the elector is set to the dissolution date you added above as the active date.

   2. Choose the Clone Data tab from the System Configuration

   3. Select the parties and riding check-boxes

   4. Click on Clone Election Date Now.

3. You will need want to edit each riding in the dissolution date and assign an Elected Party which will then be compared to the current election leading/elected party in the same region to calculate regional seat changes.

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Saving Riding and Candidate Insight From Previous Election

Once you have parties, ridings and candidates added to the current election you can use the SYNCH tool to bring riding insight forwards for matching ridings, and candidate insight forwards for candidates who run in subsequent elections.

1. Ensure you are on the Current Election Day before proceeding by using the Set Election Date tab.

2. In the System Configuration module now click on the Synch Data tab.

3. Choose the previous election date (not the dissolution day you just added in the previous step)

4. The Synch module will show the previous election, the current election and the synch state of both data sets.

   1. If you have already made changes to candidate and riding insight, the synch module will NOT overwrite your work.

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This means that if Paul Brown ran in 2011 and also in 2014 he will have two election records that keep the votes he got from each election.

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