The objective of this analysis is to assist Colorado Board of Elections employee with an election audit for a recent local congressional election following the steps below;
- How many votes were cast in this congressional election?
- Provide a breakdown of the number of votes and the percentage of total votes for each county in the precinct.
- Which county had the largest number of votes?
- Provide a breakdown of the number of votes and the percentage of the total votes each candidate received.
- Which candidate won the election, what was their vote count, and what was their percentage of the total votes?
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In order to determine the total votes cast in this congressional election, the variable
total_voteswas set to0and iterated through each row and increments by1 -
A breakdown of the number of votes and the percentage of total votes for each county in the precinct was determined by creating a county list and county votes dictionary
county_names = []andcounty_votes = {}and tracking the largest county and county voter turnoutwinning_county = ""winning_votes = 0, as well as running afor loopto retrieve vote count and percentage, calculate the percentage of votes for the county using the scriptvote_percentage_county = float(votes_county)/float(total_votes) * 100and printing the the county results using anf" stringfunction. Anif statementwas looped into the abovefor loopto determine the winning county and get its vote count -
To obtain the county with the largest number of votes, using the
for loopabove, the veriablewinning_countywas nested into thef" string( f"------------------------------\n" f"Largest County Turnout: {winning_county}\n" f"------------------------------\n" )and the winning county was printed and saved to a.txtfile. -
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if statementwas looped into anotherfor loopto determine the number of votes and the percentage of the total votes each candidate received and initializing a varablecandidate_resultsto be equal to anf" stringthe result was printed and saved to a.txtfile -
Below is a breakdown of the election results
- The analysis of the election show that:
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There were "369,711" votes cast in the election.
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The canditates were:
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Charles Casper Stockham
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Diana DeGette
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Raymon Anthony Doane
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The canditates results were:
- Charles Casper Stockham received "23.0%" of the vote and "85,213" number of votes
- Diana DeGette received "73.8%" of the vote and "272,892" number of votes
- Raymon Anthony Doane received "3.1%" of the vote and "11,606" number of votes
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The winner of the election was
- Diana DeGette, who received "73.8%" of the vote and "272,892" number of votes
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- The analysis of the election challenge on the election results show that:
- Jefferson County received "10.5%" of the vote and "38,855" number of votes
- Denver County received "82.8%" of the vote and "306,055" number of votes
- Arapahoe County received "6.7%" of the vote and "24,801" number of votes
- The county with the highest turnout is Denver
- Election screenshot is shown below
Election Results - The analysis of the election show that:
The python script written for this analysis can be used to perform analysis for other elections by;
- Changing the current file part to a file part with the source data with the same number of columns.
- alternatively, this script will also work for other data with more columns by appropriating the correct row index
row[i]in thefor loop. - The
f" stringcan also be formatted to show several election variables