Results of past elections from electionresults.govt.nz and government simulator.
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
Past election results are fetched from electionresults.govt.nz, groomed, and formatted in a usable way.
The created files can be found in the output/ folder.
So far:
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party-votes_ordinary-special.csv: Results of party vote since 2002, showing the number of votes by year, electorate, and party, with the total number of votes, the number of ordinary votes and the number of special votes.
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electoral-votes_ordinary-special.csv: Results of electoral vote since 2002, showing the number of votes by year, electorate, candidate and party, with the total number of votes, the number of ordinary votes and the number of special votes.
Characterisation of special votes and what to expect from the results on election day (they generally do not include special votes).
PDF: analysis/special-votes/special-votes.pdf
A shiny app is in the /shiny/nz_gov_sim folder to explore how election results affect the number of seats in the New Zealand government.
A version of it is available online
Another shiny app is in the /shiny/nz_special_votes folder to explore how the number of seats in the New Zealand government may change with the inclusion of special votes given the current results of the 2017 elections.
A version of it is available online
Another shiny app is in the /shiny/past_results folder to explore in detail the past election results in New Zealand.
A version of it is available online
1- To prepare the data:
- R, with additional packages:
- data.table
- lubridate
- stringr
2- For the preliminary exploration:
To prepare the data then create the PDF report at once, you need GNU
make, and then just run make at
the root of the project.
3- For the shiny app: