Looks like this year the government is really thinking digital with the upcoming elections in Kuwait. Last week I posted about their Flickr page where they were uploading pictures taken at different events related to the elections. Well Saud A. Almutairi contacted me and provided me with details regarding the election day website he helped the government setup.
On the day of the elections the Kuwaiti public will have access to preliminary results via the following channels:
Main Website
On the day of the elections after all polls are closed at 8pm that’s when counting will begin. An hour later if you visit the MOI news portal at https://news.gov.kw you will be automatically redirected to a live results website containing 5 tabs each representing a Kuwaiti circle and each containing 3 lists:
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The Candidates
This first list will be a list of all the candidates (ordered alphabetically) and contain two fields that will be constantly updated: the vote count and current rank of the candidate. This list will NOT be auto sorted based on rank as to avoid confusion. This list will remain alphabetically ordered.
Follow
The second list will contain a list of candidates a user wants to follow. This list will be empty by default until the user adds his candidates. In the screen shots below you can see how it looks empty and how it looks with some candidates added.
The Leaderboard
This final list will contain the top 15 candidates based on rank. This list will be constantly changing as per the vote count so unlike the first list, the names of the candidates here will move up or down. This list will also contain the percentage of votes the candidate has based on all votes in the circle.
If there is an update the numbers will flash. Updates to the website should start around 10PM and occur every 5 to 10 minutes.
Mobile Website
When a user visits https://news.gov.kw from a mobile device (tested on the iPhone and Android) they will be presented with a mobile optimized version of the website. You can check out the screenshots below on how the information will be presented. The only thing to note here is that on the mobile website, the list of candidates are sorted by rank.
Twitter Integration
For twitter the MOI will have 5 handles, one for each Kuwaiti circle. The system will be set up to automatically post updates every 5 minutes on the Top 12 candidates.
Here are the twitter handles for all circles: @MediaKuwait1 @MediaKuwait2 @MediaKuwait3 @MediaKuwait4 @MediaKuwait5
Note: The results from the MOI are considered preliminary scores and NOT official scores.
14 replies on “Kuwait Elections 2012 Live Results”
Great job. Hope there is no lag caused by high traffic
I wished if asil alawadhi was elected sad face no girls are elected 🙁
Fantastic!
great post
That post seems weird,like it wasn’t written by Mark…. It’s not in the normal style of 248…
Sorry but all the grammar mistakes, I didn’t have time yesterday to go through my post after I was done since I had to leave the hotel. Just fixed all the mistakes.
good and all, but it’s much more important to set up electronic / remote voting for Kuwaitis abroad
+1
Woo technology! Way to go
While i think the live results and all the digital stuff they couldn’t get a website designer? the design looks so 2002 🙁 at least they should remake it to be Web2.0
Making a website function efficiently and making it look nice are 2 completely different skills. A good coder has no eye for design and a good designer prioritizes form over function 😛
You can often tell just by visiting a website if the designer is an art or tech person
is there some kind of API for public? I would like to make the iphone app or android app if there is any.
it is not an easy nor simple task.
1-He has to depend on wireless network.
2-Electrecity that is not available easily
3-Staff that are not knowing the Election Environment
4-Judge and Min of Int. staff that work as POLICE.
5-Errors That cannot be solved.
I have been in such cases since 1985 – 2006
https://live.kuwait.tt