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Starting an election with Elector involves:

  1. Knowing if you're going to be using a data feed or operating manually

  2. Add in the next election date

  3. Add in the date of seat dissolution

  4. Creating parties and ridings for your dissolution data (can be cloned from historical data if you have previous election data)

  5. Synching ridings and candidates (data feed only, historical data only)

An Election

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is Coming!

Before you begin adding ridings and candidates into the Elector system you MUST confirm that the system is configured for the correct election date. you need to add an election date to assign its ridings and candidates. If you know the exact date of the election - use that. If you aren’t sure yet- that’s okay because you can change the election date later when the official date is declared.

All data entered into the system is assigned this date for data grouping purposes. This date is also required when connecting to and using any incoming election data feed parser agent, such as the Consortium Parser.

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  1. In the System Tools section click on the System Configuration link

  2. Click on the SET ELECTION DATE tab

  3. Under Start “Start New Election Data DateDate”

    1. enter in the upcoming election date

    2. select General Election type

    3. press the Start New Election Date

    4. Press the refresh button below that

  4. Now select this date from the Choose Existing Date section

  5. Give this election date a memorable name (eg:  “2014 Provincial Election” or “2012 By-election”)

    1. Since elector installs are separate for each province, you do not need to state the province in the name

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Add A "Seats At Dissolution" Date

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  1. Add another New Election Date

    1. select the Dissolution type (instead of General Election)

    2. use the actual date of dissolution if known

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

      1. eg: if the election was APRIL 11th, 2014, add a new election date of APRIL 10th, 2014

    4. 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 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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