Election_Analysis - Overview of Election Audit

Project Overview

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?

Election-Audit Results

• In order to determine the total votes cast in this congressional election, the variable total_votes was set to 0 and iterated through each row and increments by 1

• 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 = [] and county_votes = {}and tracking the largest county and county voter turnout winning_county = "" winning_votes = 0, as well as running a for loop to retrieve vote count and percentage, calculate the percentage of votes for the county using the script vote_percentage_county = float(votes_county)/float(total_votes) * 100 and printing the the county results using an f" stringfunction. An if statement was looped into the above for loopto determine the winning county and get its vote count

• To obtain the county with the largest number of votes, using the for loop above, the veriable winning_county was nested into the f" string ( f"------------------------------\n" f"Largest County Turnout: {winning_county}\n" f"------------------------------\n" ) and the winning county was printed and saved to a .txt file.

• An if statement was looped into another for loopto determine the number of votes and the percentage of the total votes each candidate received and initializing a varable candidate_results to be equal to an f" string the result was printed and saved to a .txt file

• Below is a breakdown of the election results

  • The analysis of the election show that:

    • There were "369,711" votes cast in the election.

    • The canditates were:

    • Charles Casper Stockham

    • Diana DeGette

    • Raymon Anthony Doane

    • 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

    • The winner of the election was

      • Diana DeGette, who received "73.8%" of the vote and "272,892" number of votes
  • 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

  

Election-Audit Summary

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 the for loop.
• The f" string can also be formatted to show several election variables