localgov_elections

This module provide content types, views and configuration that allow the reporting of election results for the LocalGov Drupal distribution.

Features

First past the post single seat per electoral area elections
'All-out' and not 'all-out' (e.g. halves or thirds) elections
Table, graph and map based views of the results
Extensible boundary source provider for electoral areas and geo data
How to use
See the Documentation for more details

Installing

You can install this module with the following composer command.

composer require drupal/localgov_elections

Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x

The 3.x branch removes the dependency on drupal/charts and charts.js

To upgrade localgov_elections, you might need to composer require drupal/charts to allow you to uninstall charts manually.

For example.

composer require 'drupal/charts:^5.2'
composer require 'drupal/localgov_elections:^3.0@beta'
drush updb 

To uninstall drupal/charts, you might also need to reset the configuration to default.

To do this, visit the charts configuration page at /admin/config/content/charts

At the bottom of the form, click on the button to "Reset to default configurations".

If nothing else depends on charts, you should now be able to uninstall it at /admin/modules/uninstall

Or using drush with:

drush pmu charts

If you have any problems upgrading, do please report it in the issue queue.

Libraries

The libraries required by Charts/Highcharts are included, by default via CDN. If you wish to have these locally follow the instructions at https://www.drupal.org/docs/contributed-modules/charts/50x-getting-start... which uses the composer.json provided by the Charts module to install.

Submodules

You may also wish to use the submodules provided as part of the Localgov Election Reporting module. They are:

• LocalGov Elections Reporting ONS Wards 2023 - Boundary source provider for Office of National Statistics 2023 District Wards - DEPRECATED
• LocalGov Elections Reporting ONS Wards 2023 - Boundary source provider for Office of National Statistics 2023 District Wards
• LocalGov Elections Reporting ONS Divisions 2024 - Boundary source provider for Office of National Statistics 2024 County Divisions
• LocalGov Elections Reporting ONS Parishes 2024 - Boundary source provider for Office of National Statistics 2024 Parishes
• Localgov Elections Parliamentary Constituency Provider - Boundary source provider for Office of National Statistics 2024 constituency boundaries
• LocalGov Elections Reporting Demo - Demo content to help with testing/evaluation
• LocalGov Elections Reporting - UK Parties - Adds the majority of UK political parties to the party taxonomy.

Further details for these modules are in their own module READMEs and the Documentation.

Issues

If you run into issues using this module, please report them here on drupal.org.

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Known issues

Node Revisions

Revisions do not currently work with the 'Areas vote' content type. We have implemented a work around to mitigate the situation by preventing the creation of revisions for the candidate paragraph entities.

For the time being, we suggest not using attempting to use revisions with 'Areas vote' nodes.

If you have Localgov Workflows turned on, it will enable 'Create new revision' by default. This should not be a cause for concern, as the problematic candidate paragraphs are being forced to ignore revisions.

If you have any questions or problems, please ask in the #feature_elections channel in the LocalGov Drupal Slack channel.