[okfn-za] Election Database

[Rufus Pollock]

Brilliant - and tweeted.

Looking forward to seeing more here :-)

Rufus

On 22 March 2013 10:48, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
> Done - here's the link:
>
> http://za.okfn.org/2013/03/22/battleground-wards-in-cape-town/
>
> There are a couple of other maps too:
>
> Census2011 statistics in Cape Town Municipality disaggregated by political
> parties and the ever popular "Are your neighbours burning dung in their
> homes?"
>
> Adi
>
> On 22 March 2013 11:46, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adi,
>>
>> Nice find and great graphic. Would you be up for a quick post on
>> http://za.okfn.org with this (it would give a url to tweet!)
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 21 March 2013 19:17, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
>> > I just came across the election database on http://www.elections.org.za.
>> > They have some very impressive low-level stats - e.g. votes per party
>> > per
>> > ward (and even per voting station although I'm not sure how to use that
>> > without the appropriate geographies). I've uploaded the 2011
>> > by-elections
>> > data to
>> > http://www.africaopendata.org/dataset/local-government-elections-2011 in
>> > case the data ever disappears.
>> >
>> > I created a quick graphic using this data showing battleground wards in
>> > the
>> > Cape Town municipality (spoiler alert - it's really a two horse race and
>> > the
>> > DA is winning by a mile). Here's the image in case anyone is interested:
>> > http://bit.ly/WH1C0P
>> >
>> > Adi
>> > http://
>> >
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> Adi Eyal
> Data Specialist
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