🗳️ Live Election Dashboard for 2024 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

A real-time election results dashboard for the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election, utilizing web scraping and data visualization techniques to display live updates.

🔗 Data Source

The live election data is sourced from the official Sri Lanka Elections Commission Results Website.

🚀 Features

• Live Updates: Refreshes data every 60 seconds
• Interactive Chart: Visualizes vote counts and percentages
• Responsive Design: Works on desktop and mobile devices
• Easy to Use: Simple setup and execution

📊 Preview

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🛠️ Setup and Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/govarthenan/live-election-dashboard.git
   cd live-election-dashboard

2. Create a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual environment:

   • On Windows:

     venv\Scripts\activate

   • On macOS and Linux:

     source venv/bin/activate

4. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

🖥️ Running the Application

To run the Live Election Dashboard, ensure you acitvated the virtual environment and then run the following command:

python main.py

Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8050 to view the live dashboard.

🔧 Configuration

You can modify the number of candidates displayed by changing the num_pairs parameter in the scrape_data() function call within live-chart.py:

data = scrape_data(num_pairs=5) # Change this number to scrape more or fewer pairs

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.

👨‍💻 Author

Govarthenan Rajadurai

• GitHub: @govarthenan
• Email: [email protected]

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Dash for the interactive web application framework
• Plotly for the beautiful charts
• Beautiful Soup for web scraping capabilities

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Made with ❤️ and Python