[Data-modeling] 2008 California partisan elections

[Christopher R. Maden]

Robert Cook wrote:
> Would it make sense to have a property on Election for who the winner  
> was?

That’s possible.  I believe Tadhg is actually looking at modeling 
election results, but it’s non-trivial.  One way to do it is for 
contesting an election to be modeled as a CVT, with a Boolean for being 
elected and other properties for vote totals and/or percentages.  But it 
is more complicated for multi-seat elections, parliamentary elections, 
ranked choice voting, etc.  Right now, the important part — who holds 
the office — is just modeled completely separately.

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> I wonder if we shouldn't change "election year" to "date of election"; I
> think that would make things a bit clearer.

Makes sense to me.  The existing dates could be changed easily enough.

~Chris
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Christopher R. Maden
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