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The Interesting agent tracks election results for every candidate who has at least one interest option flag enabled in Flow. As election results show something interesting happening for one of these tracked candidates, the Interesting agent creates an Interesting Event for that event status. As you review election results, you can instantly identify areas of interest and filter to feature interesting data only. Each candidate in Flow can have a number of candidate interest options flagged, such as Minister, Underdog, Political Veteran, or you can work with Bannister Lake Support to customize the candidate interest options for your needs.

The Interesting agent retrieves updated data every 10 seconds.

Note

Important: This Interesting agent must be running in order for status to be tracked for flagged candidates. If you are troubleshooting a lack Interesting Events, ensure that the Interesting agent is running and functional using Agent Status.

Interesting Events

There are a number of interesting events that are automatically generated as results come in (If the Interesting Agent is running)

  • Tied lead candidates (are looked for regardless of the Required Poll Percent setting)

  • Results Predication based events (requires predictions to be entered for the ridings)

    • candidate is behind when they were predicted to be the leader

    • candidate has a smaller lead than expected

    • candidate is doing better than expected with a greater percentage of the votes then predicted

  • Leading party has changed

  • Bad elected candidate: a  a candidate who was elected but is now trailing.

  • Incumbent is losing

  • Interesting candidate is

    • Elected

    • Leading/trailing by < 1%

    • Leading/trailing by < 5%

    • Leading/trailing by > 5%

    • Leading/trailing by > 10%

    • Leading/trailing by > 20%

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