kentucky_governors_race_nytimes.py

"""Print out nytimes kentucky governors results

e.g.

while [[ 1 ]]; do echo; echo ; date; python ./nytimes.py; sleep 5; done

"""


import urllib, json

def main():
  url = 'https://int.nyt.com/applications/elections/2019/data/api/2019-11-05/kentucky/governor.json'
  response = urllib.urlopen(url)
  data = json.loads(response.read())
  race = data['data']['races'][0]
  reporting_display = race['reporting_display']
  precincts_reporting = int(race['precincts_reporting'])
  precincts_total = int(race['precincts_total'])
  votes = int(race['votes'])
  result = race['result']
  print "precincts_reporting\t%d" % precincts_reporting
  print "precincts_totalt\t%d" % precincts_total
  print "reporting_display\t%s" % reporting_display
  print "votes\t\t\t%d" % votes
  print "result\t\t\t\t\t%s" % result

  bevinm = 0
  besheara = 0
  hicksj = 0
  for c in race['counties']:
    bevinm += int(c['results']['bevinm'])
    besheara += int(c['results']['besheara'])
    hicksj += int(c['results']['hicksj'])

  diff = besheara-bevinm

  votes_left = 13000.0 * (float(precincts_reporting) / float(precincts_total))

  besheara_perc = 100*(float(besheara)/float(votes))
  bevinm_perc = 100*(float(bevinm)/float(votes))
  perc_diff = besheara_perc-bevinm_perc
  print "besheara\t%d\t%0.2f" % (besheara, besheara_perc)
  print "bevinm\t\t%d\t%0.2f" % (bevinm, bevinm_perc)
  print "hicksj\t\t%d\t%0.2f" % (hicksj, 100*(float(hicksj)/float(votes)))
  print "diff\t\t%d\t%f" % (diff, perc_diff)
  print "votes_left\t%d" % votes_left

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()