Primary and General LegislativeElections 2013

Legislative Elections – 2013Official Site

http://www.resultados.gob.ar

Example: Province: Buenos Aires – District : Tigre – National Deputies

Date and Time

Elections 2013

An application was developed for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), that when executed from Excel “live” did the following:

1. Connected to the official site presenting the electoral results minute by minute, presenting data from each province, locality, and department.

2. With those data it did an analysis and generated Excel Spreadsheets with the following data:

- Total and partial number of votes for deputies and senators, by party, province, and locality, in absolute values and percentages referred to the total voter registration, effective votes, percentages of votes counted, etc.

- Number of votes for deputies in each province and, applying the D’Hontmethod, it indicated the seats obtained by each party and the name of the candidate occupying a seat.

- The names of the candidates that obtained seats in each chamber

- Results by related zones, such as: rural zones, urban zones, soya plantation zones, oil zones, glacier zones, insecure zones, flood zones, Sarmiento railroad area, provinces dominated by Kirchnerism, areas dominated by Massa, areas dominated by Insaurralde, Patagonia, Cuyo (central western Andes zone), and others.

Primaries and General Election

• For the Primaries (August 12) the News App identify the parties, and the lists inside eachparty, and the results were shown in decreasing order.

• For General Elections (October 27th) onlyparties, the premises were the same.

Benefits

• The set of Excel spreadsheets generated by the NewsApp allowed the Staff to apply filters and organize the data with different criteria to produce conclusions that otherwise required the analysis of unrelated tables or graphs, and with a variety of scenarios including the names of legislators that won seats, the vote difference with the candidates immediately above and below, and many more.

• But fundamentally the result offered consistency, being data obtained as the votes were being counted.

NewsApp basisTwo tables are the basis for this newsapp:• Table containing the name of each province, de

number of senate seats (only one third of theprovinces) and deputies seats, and the number of votants (D´Hont model requires more than 1,5% votes of the total).

• Table containing the name and ID of each partyand list, and the name of candidates, in the sameorder they appear in the list.

• Runs the election day every 10 minutes searchingin the official site for new results.

Base Table and Results, for cross verification

Base table forthe App, withinfo for eachprovince, foreach type of legislator

Results table, generated bythe App.

Base Table: Name of the canditates, for Senate and Deputies, presented by each partyfor each province.

X = No candidates for that party on that province. Not offered, or not available for that province.

Absolute an percent values per province

Primary Election Results (August 8th) – Results for each party, and their lists – Define candidates for General Election

Primary Election: Virtually elected Deputies

Primary Election: Deputies results, per party, list and province

Primary Election: Deputies results, per party, list and province, total and grand total values

Parties, name of candidataes and order in wich they get access to seats . (From Base Table with that data, simply changing backgroud color to yellow)

Parties that get acces to deputies seats, in which order and candidate names

Parties that get acces to Senate seats, in which order and candidate names

Percent results, for province and party

Absolute results, for province and party

Performance by Zones• Journalists could define any number of “zones”, containing each any number of

districts, that shares a common characteristics, among others, like rural zones, cities qith more than 500.000 residents, soja zone, affected by flooding, insecurity or trains accidents.

Performance by Zones

Zone Sarmiento (railway)

Zone Floodings April 2013

Performance by ZonesCandidates Influence Zone

Serio MASSA

Martin INSAURRALDE