Description

If you are not familiar with how elections work in the UK, please see this short BBC video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRxUhGetEPQ

The results website presents a simple elections result service.

Domain

The domain for the election represents some key concepts:

• constituencyId a unique integer id to identify a location. E.g "Brent Central" is 90
• party is a short 3, or 4, letter code for a party for instance LAB = Labour, CON = Conservative etc.
• votes the number of votes gained by a party in a constituency
• share the % share of the total votes the party received

Endpoints (server.py) GET /

Description: Serves the homepage allowing users to choose between "Show All Results" or "Show Results for a Constituency ID." GET /result

Description: Displays results for a specific constituency by its ID. It renders the result_id.html page where users can input a constituency ID. GET /scoreboard

Description: Displays the scoreboard of all constituencies’ results in an HTML template (constituencies.html). Calls /all_result to retrieve data. GET /all_result

Description: Fetches all constituency results in JSON format. Displays the constituency ID, name, and the winning party for each. GET /constituency/<constituency_id>

Description: Fetches and displays results for a specific constituency using the constituency_id. If the ID is invalid, it returns a 404 error. Main Functions display_constituency_results_id() (server.py):

Loops over all election result files and retrieves the constituency ID, name, and winning party. get_winning_party(constituency) (server.py):

Determines the party with the most votes in a given constituency. constituency(constituency_id) (server.py):

Retrieves election results for a specific constituency ID. If not found, it returns a 404 error. Updater.exec() (updater.py)​(updater):

Periodically updates election results by randomly selecting a constituency and modifying its vote count. This update is then saved to the ./resources/updated-election-results folder.

Prerequisites

• python 3.9 or higher

To Build

pip install -r requirements.txt

To Run

• go to src folder.
• python ./main.py

or if you need to run it on another port, PORT=**** python ./main.py