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# Wahlrecht (Electoral Law)
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This application allows the storage of core election data (elections, parties, nominations,
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candidates, election results) and the calculation of election results. This can be used to
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quickly get the list of elected candidates from each party based on a final, incomplete
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or fictional election result.
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## Motivation
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The electoral law for the district and city elections in Hamburg is rather complex on the side
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of counting the results. This application takes away the complex part of determining the
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elected candidates based on the vote results. This allows, for example, playing around with
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what-if scenarios: What if one party gets 100 more votes in one constituency, how would that
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change the set of elected candidates?
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Another motivation: the official list of vote results per candidate is only available in a PDF
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and not in machine-readable format. All vote results for each candidate were extracted manually
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from that PDF and are now available in easy-to-consume JSON format.
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## Correctness
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The correctness of the calculation was tested with the final election results from the 2019
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district election. When calculating, the application returns the utilized election numbers which
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can be used to compare with the official calculation as documented by the Statistikamt Nord.
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Except rounding differences a couple positions after the point, the numbers are equal.
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Furthermore, unit tests check those results automatically.
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## Data source
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The source for the data that will be available on the hosted service is the Statistikamt Nord.
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All information can be obtained from there (in German): https://www.statistik-nord.de/wahlen/wahlen-in-hamburg/bezirksversammlungswahlen/2019#c7624 |