Introducing http://www.boards.ie/vote

okedoke · 04-02-2011 8:18pm

good idea, but when you see the constituency vote % breakdown could you give the candidates votes as well as the party votes. Would be useful to see how votes are splitting between candidates withing parties.

steve

EDIT: Just saw that you already do this.

John mac · 04-02-2011 8:25pm

there's someone missing from the Mayo voting. cant remember her name but she is a 20 something solicitor ,

loobylou · 04-02-2011 8:37pm

Excellent stuff
Well done

Sir Oxman · 04-02-2011 8:40pm

Hey Victor, will there be a lock on boards members voting in their initial constituency choice?
I think that makes sense if possible as the initial choice will be the constituency members actually will vote in.

yoshytoshy · 04-02-2011 8:42pm

Absolutely brilliant idea ,I'm already pro-active in finding out who the hell the independents in my area are:)

Eliot Rosewater · 04-02-2011 8:44pm

mikegalway wrote: »

Well done. This will turn out to be a very accurate forecaster.

There's two competing factors: on the one hand, the Boards.ie demographic is likely to be dissimilar to the electorate demographic, giving a bigger margin of error, but on the other hand a very large number of people will be voting in this, giving a lower margin of error.

Either way I think it's fantastic, now that votes are coming in. I look forward to when they start doing the real PR-STV magic!

Kalimah · 04-02-2011 8:48pm

Love this. It's a fantastic idea. Politics.ie is most complimentary of the whole site too.

Victor · 04-02-2011 8:49pm

gambiaman wrote: »

Hey Victor, will there be a lock on boards members voting in their initial constituency choice?
I think that makes sense if possible as the initial choice will be the constituency members actually will vote in.

I don't know. A problem arises where people accidentally vote in the wrong constituency (boundaries have changed).

Sir Oxman · 04-02-2011 9:09pm

Victor wrote: »

I don't know. A problem arises where people accidentally vote in the wrong constituency (boundaries have changed).

Appreciate that but to allow hopping and changing isn't very realistic.
Hopefully the people behind it consider this request.

madmoe · 04-02-2011 9:45pm

Well done guys on this! My first time ever to vote at the tender age of 31 so this will be well helpful to me!

Cheers,
M

nkay1985 · 04-02-2011 9:46pm

Great idea lads. Looks and functions really well. Obviously it won't be that accurate but it'll give an indication and will also be a look at the younger generation's attitudes and voting preferences. Can't wait until the PR-STV comes into it.

It's a pity we don't have nationwide broadband isn't it? Maybe it would be more accurate then if more people in rural areas could access it! :P

greendom · 04-02-2011 9:52pm

Brilliant stuff - well done to everyone who designed this

5h4mr0(k · 04-02-2011 9:52pm

Looks great but....

Clare has 12 candidates, but there are only 9 on the ballot. I'll save my vote until this is corrected.

acalmenvoy · 04-02-2011 9:56pm

Over 2500 votes already, would I be right in thinking this would be far superior to any opinion polls?

Great work Boards.....;)

Sir Oxman · 04-02-2011 9:56pm

It's interesting that the percentages so far are within a percent or two of official polls so far, except FF and Labour - with FF understated by ~7/8% and Labour overstated by the same versus the other polls.
The prefs will be very interesting

Waiting for the upsurge in membership just to vote by the party workers...;_)

emo72 · 04-02-2011 9:59pm

glad to see the indies doing well. shows dissatifaction with mainstream parties?

leincar · 04-02-2011 10:21pm

At 9.15pm FG have 68 seats and FF have 5. I'm sure Enda Kenny would love the vote to take place now.

Is there any chance of a daily track of projected seats at a certain time each day. Probably not scientific but good none the less.

On election day polls close at 10.00pm, so maybe that might be the cut off time every day.

For now;

FG - 68
FF - 5
LAB - 50
SF - 24
ULA - 4
IND - 10
GP - 1

yoshytoshy · 04-02-2011 10:26pm

Good oul Sofflaw is probably the one green party vote

LeixlipRed · 04-02-2011 10:27pm

leincar wrote: »

At 9.15pm FG have 68 seats and FF have 5. I'm sure Enda Kenny would love the vote to take place now.

Is there any chance of a daily track of projected seats at a certain time each day. Probably not scientific but good none the less.

On election day polls close at 10.00pm, so maybe that might be the cut off time every day.

For now;

FG - 68
FF - 5
LAB - 50
SF - 24
ULA - 4
IND - 10
GP - 1

How can you possibly work that out without knowing the transfers?

04-02-2011 10:31pm

leincar wrote: »

FG - 68
FF - 5
LAB - 50
SF - 24
ULA - 4
IND - 10
GP - 1

Out of interest, why would you put them in that order? Surely it would either make sense to do it in order of seats ie:

FG: 68
LAB: 50
SF: 24
IND: 10
FF: 5
ULA: 4
GP: 1

Or alphabetical:

FF: 5
FG: 68
GP: 1
IND: 10
LAB: 50
SF: 24
ULA: 4

Sorry for being pedantic

You did a good job there, but I see no order in your list!

\edit: I presume you're basing this just on 1st preferences also?

04-02-2011 10:35pm

Hi, in the Mayo constituency - you are missing Lisa Chambers (FF)

leincar · 04-02-2011 10:36pm

LeixlipRed wrote: »

How can you possibly work that out without knowing the transfers?

The anorak tendancy in me just went through the 43 constituencies. As the PR element has not come in to play yet, it was the first candidates for each constituency.

leincar · 04-02-2011 10:41pm

Papa Smut wrote: »

Out of interest, why would you put them in that order? Surely it would either make sense to do it in order of seats ie:

FG: 68
LAB: 50
SF: 24
IND: 10
FF: 5
ULA: 4
GP: 1

Or alphabetical:

FF: 5
FG: 68
GP: 1
IND: 10
LAB: 50
SF: 24
ULA: 4

Sorry for being pedantic You did a good job there, but I see no order in your list!

\edit: I presume you're basing this just on 1st preferences also?

Yes 1st preference until the PR element comes in to play. Then It'll be like watching TV trying to work out who will transfer to who.

The system for listing is just a slight reversal of how opinion graphics show, with FF and FG revearsed.

If you look through the constituencies though, FF are lagging well behind in a lot of them. Thats fine by me, but I just can't see them doing as bad on the day.

Corsendonk · 04-02-2011 11:12pm

Some of the protesting FF voters most likely voted FF on the 3rd-5th preference but considering some of the very low 1st preference counts on FF candidates so far they might not be around to benefit.

For some reason 7 people gave Dan Boyle their No. 1 to put him in joint 5th in Cork South Central.

Corsendonk · 04-02-2011 11:13pm

leincar wrote: »

The anorak tendancy in me just went through the 43 constituencies. As the PR element has not come in to play yet, it was the first candidates for each constituency.

How did you sort candidates that had the same score for the last seat?

Min · 04-02-2011 11:15pm

There is a candidate on the Carlow/Kilkenny constituency voting section and I checked his profile as he is an independent - it says he is standing in Cavan/Monaghan - Jonathan Rainey.

thetonynator · 04-02-2011 11:37pm

Min wrote: »

There is a candidate on the Carlow/Kilkenny constituency voting section and I checked his profile as he is an independent - it says he is standing in Cavan/Monaghan - Jonathan Rainey.

Also IND Noel Walsh is missing from the list. (In carlow-Kilkenny)

Sir Oxman · 04-02-2011 11:58pm

Corsendonk wrote: »

Some of the protesting FF voters most likely voted FF on the 3rd-5th preference but considering some of the very low 1st preference counts on FF candidates so far they might not be around to benefit.

For some reason 7 people gave Dan Boyle their No. 1 to put him in joint 5th in Cork South Central.

Free will? Never mind Boyle, one person has voted for Frank Fahey in Galway West!:eek::eek:

Corsendonk · 04-02-2011 11:59pm

Dublin North

Missing a face pic of Clare Daly- that might have been to keep the page child friendly

http://www.socialistparty.net/election07/daly.html

AckwelFoley · 05-02-2011 12:03am

Its a pretty cool survey and worth doing from a boards.ie point of view, but it will be wholly inaccurate when compared to the actual election results - demographics, its all about demographics.. or the lack of a variety of demographics on the Internet

Corsendonk · 05-02-2011 12:10am

Both Limericks are showing Seats Available as 0.

Limerick

Seats Available: 0

Limerick City

Seats Available: 0

Drummer Mummer · 05-02-2011 12:17am

I stand corrected but the list of candidates for Meath East is incorrect. There are posters all over my area of Gerry Adams and Fergus O'Dowd. As far as I know the boundries have been changed and we are now in the Drogheda area. I haven't decided who to vote for as yet, I don't know any of these guys and no one has called to my door yet!

Corsendonk · 05-02-2011 12:24am

Yeap Julianstown is now in Louth as is the Meath Riveria under the new boundary changes.

Drummer Mummer · 05-02-2011 12:38am

What is the current Louth Football Manager running in this election for??? Does he equate politics to football, then again..........!!! what is Fine Gale thinking!!

Corsendonk · 05-02-2011 12:52am

Drummer Mummer wrote: »

What is the current Louth Football Manager running in this election for??? Does he equate politics to football, then again..........!!! what is Fine Gale thinking!!

Celebrity candidate, you get them in each election. You would think that FG would have learn't from George Lee. Anyway isn't Fitzpatrick ex army? Enda might need a bodyguard to protect him from the Vincent Browne.

johnmcdnl · 05-02-2011 1:17am

Drummer Mummer wrote: »

What is the current Louth Football Manager running in this election for??? Does he equate politics to football, then again..........!!! what is Fine Gale thinking!!

didn't gramham gerathy run in meath for FG last election as well??

martic · 05-02-2011 1:26am

Very good idea,thanks

Humans eh! · 05-02-2011 1:28am

Brilliant, well done, looks fantastic and a great idea.

Aaaaaaagh can't get it to work - I'm on a mac in Safari

must,
keep,
trying!!

Millicent · 05-02-2011 1:48am

I think it would be a good idea if under profile, there was a list of the candidate's election policies/promises. It'd be handy for the ones I'm less familiar with. Just a thought, worth what ye paid for it.

onekeano · 05-02-2011 3:19am

Brilliant idea - congratulations and I;m going to watch this closely as it developes - thank you!

Roy

Nehaxak · 05-02-2011 10:11am

On the basis of 1st pref votes cast thus far, why are media outlets even bothering to include FF in a leaders debate, when it certainly looks like SF will be a bigger party than them ?

Puzzling...

Greenman · 05-02-2011 10:19am

Well done.

Looks great:)

Thanks very much:)

Victor · 05-02-2011 10:23am

Nehaxak wrote: »

On the basis of 1st pref votes cast thus far, why are media outlets even bothering to include FF in a leaders debate, when it certainly looks like SF will be a bigger party than them ?

Puzzling...

They have to base such things on actual past performance, not current performance based on limited polls.

thetonynator · 05-02-2011 11:28am

Nehaxak wrote: »

On the basis of 1st pref votes cast thus far, why are media outlets even bothering to include FF in a leaders debate, when it certainly looks like SF will be a bigger party than them ?

Puzzling...

SF have far higher and FF far lower support on boards than they do in general.

ejmaztec · 05-02-2011 12:50pm

The South Kerry poll isn't representative because the Healy-Rae supporters don't know what the internet is.

BrianD · 05-02-2011 1:15pm

Why is there the 'spoil vote' option? It's ridiculous. Particularly for this particular exercise - which is a brilliant idea otherwise!

There is zero democratic expression in spoiling a vote. Spoiled votes count for nothing and are only an incidental statistic. No conclusions can be drawn - other than perhaps people were to stupid to fill in out a form. I have yet to hear anybody state "There were a lot of spoiled votes in that election"

It would be much appreciated if the spoil vote option was removed. It has no place in our democratic system.

gonedrinking · 05-02-2011 1:21pm

DeVore wrote: »

On Monday we will start again on fixing these errors...

DeV.

I've voted but I'm not getting that tick under my username like you and others have, why is that?

lucernarian · 05-02-2011 1:26pm

BrianD wrote: »

Why is there the 'spoil vote' option? It's ridiculous. Particularly for this particular exercise - which is a brilliant idea otherwise!

There is zero democratic expression in spoiling a vote. Spoiled votes count for nothing and are only an incidental statistic. No conclusions can be drawn - other than perhaps people were to stupid to fill in out a form. I have yet to hear anybody state "There were a lot of spoiled votes in that election"

It would be much appreciated if the spoil vote option was removed. It has no place in our democratic system.

I disagree with that. If people feel that candidates are not up to scratch but want to express their protest, I feel they should be given that option. A lot of spoiled votes count as simple errors and mistakes but those who write Dustin the Turkey on the page and give him the number one are intentionally spoiling their ballot as they are legally entitled to do.

If the poll is to be as realistic as possible, this type of vote needs to be accommodated for.

Dozen Wicked Words · 05-02-2011 1:28pm

So all the money spent by the government on computerised voting wasn't wasted, think I saw the hierachy at Boards with their wheelie wagons pulling all the machinery into HQ!

Slick presentation by the way, once all the little snags are sorted.

oscarBravo · 05-02-2011 1:37pm

gonedrinking wrote: »

I've voted but I'm not getting that tick under my username like you and others have, why is that?

Did you select the option on the voting page to display it? If not, you can cast the same vote again but with the option selected.

Introducing http://www.boards.ie/vote

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