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Vote Percentage

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Elector is designed to preserve your election data from election to election and can display previous election data in various graphs.

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Note: Legacy election data must be manually added to Elector to help provide the context needed for Flow to display the graphs. See your system administrator for details.

Seat Count Header

The seat counts for the parties of interest display in the header of Flow for Elector so that it is immediately visible. These counts are automatically updated.

Race Overview

The Race Overview module offers you real-time election results graphs.

  1. From the Home page, select  or click Results > Race Overview.
  2. Select the data options you want to review.

Race Results

A federal or provincial race results graph that displays the number of seats obtained during previous elections (or at dissolution) broken down by party and year.

Seat Count

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A graph that displays the total number of elected officials based on the number of ridings by party, the number of available seats, and delta values from the last election (+/-).

This seat count represents the total number in which the party is either leading or elected. For example, if a party is elected in three (3) ridings and leading in four (4) more, then the seat number would be seven (7). 

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Declare the Election Winner (Call the Election)

Flow has a feature to allow you to select the winning party and type.

Once selected this will be part of the BLADE output of the Overall Result option.

It will be cleared as part of the Reset Election Results feature.

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This will be displayed in the header of Flow. The first line is the name of the selected party.
The second line is the text selected/entered.


You can access output these selections via BLADE in XML and JSON formats as shown below:

http://flow-ab/api/OverallResult/?xml=true

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<OverallResult xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Flow.Blade.Results.Overall">
	<PartyID>174</PartyID>
	<PartyName>Liberal</PartyName>
	<PartyName2>Liberal</PartyName2>
	<PartyNameShort>LIB</PartyNameShort>
	<PartyNameShort2>LIB</PartyNameShort2>
	<PollPercent>31.1</PollPercent>
	<PollsReporting>2140</PollsReporting>
	<PollsTotal>6885</PollsTotal>
	<ResultText>Minority</ResultText>
	<VotesCast>470972</VotesCast>
	<VotesEligible>2543127</VotesEligible>
	<VotesPercent>18.5</VotesPercent>
</OverallResult>


http://flow-ab/api/OverallResult/?json=true

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{
  "pollsTotal": 6885,
  "pollsReporting": 2140,
  "pollPercent": 31.1,
  "votesEligible": 2543127,
  "votesCast": 470972,
  "votesPercent": 18.5,
  "partyName": "Liberal",
  "partyNameShort": "LIB",
  "partyID": 174,
  "partyName2": "Liberal",
  "partyNameShort2": "LIB",
  "resultText": "Minority"
}


Predict the Voter Turnout

This feature in Flow helps you to predict the voter turnout for the election.

It requires that the number of eligible voters for the election to be set and bases it's predictions on the incoming results (no result data - no prediction).

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Riding Results Summary

The Riding Results Summary module offers you a powerful set of real-time data filtering tools.

  1. From the Home page, select  or click Election Results > Ridings Summary.
  2. Select the data options you want to review.

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More Interesting Scenario Ideas

ScenarioHow to Filter Your Data
Incumbents who have kept their seat?
  1. In the Incumbent column, select ()
  2. In the Elected column, select ()

Result: All ridings whose incumbents have been declared the winning candidate.

Ridings whose incumbent party has lost to another party?
  1. In the Party column, select a party to filter on.
  2. In the Incumbent Party column, select a different party to filter on.

Result: All ridings whose incumbent party has lost to another party.

Ridings keeping their party seat so far?

Select the Quick Filter Option: Party Unchanging.

Result: All ridings where the riding is not changing parties.

Which ridings are switching party seats?

Select the Quick Filter Option: Party Changing.

Result: All ridings where the riding is changing parties.

All close races with less than 1% vote lead?

Select the Quick Filter Option: Other > Very Close Races -1% Lead.

- or -

  1. In the Lead % column, enter a value of 1.
  2. Click on the Filter icon and select LessThan.

Result: All ridings with tight races whose leading candidate has less than a 1% lead.

All landslide races with more than 20% vote lead?
  1. In the Lead % column, enter a value of 20.
  2. Click on the Filter icon and select GreaterThan.

Result: All ridings with landslide races whose leading candidate has more than a 20% lead.

Ridings with a candidate expected to win in a landslide

(Candidate Interest Option)

Select a Quick Filter Option under Expected Landslide.




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