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

Note: Legacy election data must be available in Elector to help provide the context needed for Flow to display the graphs. The Supporting Data page helps to document these requirements. 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. It can display up to 7 parties.

Race Overview

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

From the Home page, select
or click Results > Race Overview.
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

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).

This graph can be filtered to display results from a specific region.

Vote Percent Chart

A graph that shows each party's percentage of the total vote, including delta values from the last election (+/-).

Timeline chart shows a vote% over time

Declare the 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.

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.

BLADE Output

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

Overall Result XML sample

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

<OverallResult>
	<PartyID>238</PartyID>
	<PartyName>United Conservative</PartyName>
	<PartyName2/>
	<PartyNameShort>UCP</PartyNameShort>
	<PartyNameShort2>UCP</PartyNameShort2>
	<ResultText>Majority</ResultText>
	<ModifiedDate>2019-10-15T17:32:36Z</ModifiedDate>
	<VotesEligible>2615000</VotesEligible>
	<PollPercent>100</PollPercent>
	<PollsReporting>7329</PollsReporting>
	<PollsTotal>7329</PollsTotal>
	<VotesCast>1878410</VotesCast>
	<VotesPercent>71.8</VotesPercent>
</OverallResult>

Overall Result - JSON sample

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

{
  "generated": "2019-10-15T17:33:53.6203363Z",
  "overallResult": {
    "partyName": "United Conservative",
    "partyNameShort": "UCP",
    "partyID": 238,
    "partyName2": "",
    "partyNameShort2": "UCP",
    "resultText": "Majority",
    "modifiedDate": "2019-10-15T17:32:36Z",
    "votesEligible": 2615000,
    "pollsTotal": 7329,
    "pollsReporting": 7329,
    "pollPercent": 100.0,
    "votesCast": 1878410,
    "votesPercent": 71.8
  }
}

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).

Riding Results Summary

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

See more: Riding Results Summary