Elector is designed to preserve your election data from election to election but if you are new to the solution or this is a new province, you will need to enter some data manually to help provide the context needed for Flow to display many of it's graphics.
Current Election Date
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DO NOT START USING ELECTOR UNTIL THIS STEP HAS BEEN COMPLETED |
Before you begin adding ridings and candidates into the Elector system you MUST set the Next Election Date preference key. It must be set for the upcoming election date either through the preferences module or in the config table. All data entered into the system is assigned this date for grouping purposes.
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Doing this will allow the Provincial Race Status module to properly display the graphs.
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Regional Results
To enable calculating regional seat changes - you will want to create a copy of the ridings in the dissolution date. The easiest way to do this is to have an admin using the riding cloning tool in System Configuration. Once the ridings have been cloned/created in the Dissolution date you will need to assign a Elected Party to each riding which will be compared to the leading/elected party of ridings in the same region to identify an overal seat change for each party in the region.
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For each party that got votes during the last election, a record will need to be added to the candidate table that represents the number of votes that party got in total.
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Add the party as the candidate last name, the year as the candidate first name, and the total number of votes in the last election for that party in the cnd_votes column. Put the number of seats they won in the cnd_elected column and connect the cnd_partyID to the party record you just added above that is from the last election (not dissolution). The cnd_date is then the date of the last election (not dissolution).
Doing this will allow the Seat Count graph in the views to properly represent the delta values from the last election (eg +/- number of votes/seats)