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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. 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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6. Clone the parties and ridings from the last election to the new election date. If Ridings are changing then there might be an option to import them with a custom populate app.

1. Start by ensuring the elector is set to the election 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 Data Now.

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 know known

   3. 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

   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 Data 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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The above user is preparing to synch the previous election insight with the current election data set. Note that ridings and candidates must be defined in the target set for the insight to be copied over. This is typically done with an automated data feed or by cloning the parties and ridings when manually entering your data. Click on the + button to examine the details of the source and target insight. The colours indicate the synch status.

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Clone Regions

You will want to clone the Regions as well. This is currently done using the Region Management module. You will clone the regions for both the new dissolution and official election dates.

More on Election Data Cloning and Synching

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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.

This lets you compare how a candidate did in their second time attempting to get a seat.

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