The AEC produce a data file which lists, for each 2016 SA1, how many votes were cast at each polling place, and how many votes by other methods e.g absentee votes.
This code processes that file to produce an estimate for primary, two-party, and two-candidate results by SA1.
- Requires a python 3 environment, e.g through WSL on windows, or anaconda, etc.
- Requires pipenv On ubuntu 22.04 you could start with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python-is-python3
sudo apt-get install pip
pip install pipenvTo configure this project, clone the repo, and then:
pipenv installTo create the virutal python env with the necessary packages.
the "get" file will get all the data the "clean" file will structure it and produce our output
pipenv run python get.py
pipenv run python clean.py