Election Sim

A engine for simulating and comparing voting systems.

Core Design

Architecture

• Each voter has a set number of views (-1.0 to 1.0)
• Voters are members of a constituency.
  • Constituencies have bias that is added to voters own views.
  • "conFactor" effects how great this bias is (0.0 to 1.0)
• Each party has the same number of views (-1.0 to 1.0)
  • Voter's views of each party is calculated using euclidean distance.

Performance

By using numpy matrices we have been able to see high performance.

• Simulations of 50,000,000 voters can be run easily in background.
  • Time : ~30mins
  • RAM : ~1.2Gb
  • CPU : 10% [Ryzen 5 2600x (4GHz)]

Contributions

Please do contribute, if you want. You can easily add your own voting system and test it out. I would love to hear what you do with it.

Goals

Target

• Votings Systems
  • Single Transferable Vote
  • Additional Member System
  • Alternative Vote
  • AV+
• Ranking Systems
  • Measure Voter distain for winner
• Core
  • Support for Constituency Merging (STV with 3 seat per constituency)
  • Better parallelization

Issues

• Does not account for two party system shift.
• Party votes distribution unrealistic.
• Constituency constant size.