11-06-2015, 03:02 AM
I'm placing this in the "Not Remotely HP Calculator" but I guess an HP Calculator could be used to analyze this.
This past Tuesday, we had a local election. I saw the following summary of the results in the local paper:
Now for some general information.
(Rep) is the Republican Party
(Dem) is the Democratic Party
(Ind) is the Independent Party
Since the Township Council is composed of
three members, each voter was to vote for
three choices. The three could be the three
Republicans, the three Democrats or any
combination.
What struck me in the table of results printed by
the newspaper was that there was NOT 14,108
voters. Since each voter voted for three candidates
the actual number of voters was only about 4,702.
I'm guessing the newspaper just enter the election results
into a standard spreadsheet which generates the percentages.
The results of the election was that the three Republicans were
elected to new terms.
The question is: could this data be presented in a better manner to reflect the final results?
One way would be to look at the republicans versus the democrats.
This would be 53% Rep. versus 47% Dem.
What are some other meaningful statistics?
Thanks,
Bill
Smithville, NJ
This past Tuesday, we had a local election. I saw the following summary of the results in the local paper:
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Township Council
Vote-Count Percent
Tony C. (Rep) 2,650 18.78%
Tony D. (Rep) 2,427 17.20%
Rich C. (Rep) 2,309 16.37%
Jim G. (Dem) 2,239 15.87%
Tom S. (Dem) 2,185 15.49%
Joyce P. (Dem) 2,043 14.48%
Tom M (Ind) 252 1.79%
Write-In 3 0.02%
Total 14,108 100.0
Now for some general information.
(Rep) is the Republican Party
(Dem) is the Democratic Party
(Ind) is the Independent Party
Since the Township Council is composed of
three members, each voter was to vote for
three choices. The three could be the three
Republicans, the three Democrats or any
combination.
What struck me in the table of results printed by
the newspaper was that there was NOT 14,108
voters. Since each voter voted for three candidates
the actual number of voters was only about 4,702.
I'm guessing the newspaper just enter the election results
into a standard spreadsheet which generates the percentages.
The results of the election was that the three Republicans were
elected to new terms.
The question is: could this data be presented in a better manner to reflect the final results?
One way would be to look at the republicans versus the democrats.
This would be 53% Rep. versus 47% Dem.
What are some other meaningful statistics?
Thanks,
Bill
Smithville, NJ