Author:Ittmann, HW; Holloway, Jennifer P; Dudeni-Tlhone, NontembekoDate:Jun 2017General elections are held every five years in South Africa. During the 12 to 24 hour period after the close of the voting booths, the expected final results are of huge interest to the electorate and politicians. In the past, the Council for ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, PDate:May 2017Every five years, the South African population goes to the polls to elect local government councilors. These elections are fought along party lines, however, independent candidates are also allowed to participate. This paper looks at the ...Read more
Author:Greben, JM; Elphinstone, E; Holloway, Jennifer PDate:Jun 2006A novel model has been developed to predict elections on the basis of early results. The electorate is clustered according to their behaviour in previous elections. Early results in the new elections can then be translated into voter behaviour ...Read more
Author:Greben, JMDate:Aug 2005The conference presented, several methods and trend analysis applied to the South African elections. The conference had discussions on trend mix; properties of the resulting trend mix; elimination of negative elements; it also gave examples ...Read more
Author:Moodley, Avashlin; Marivate, Vukosi NDate:Nov 2019In election cycles, the political-themed articles published by news providers present a rich source of information about election discourse. Extracting useful themes from a large article corpus manually is infeasible, text mining techniques ...Read more