Flussi di voto/ flussi elettorali

English translation: vote fluctuations/ electoral flows

10:25 Jan 28, 2017
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / Elections
Italian term or phrase: Flussi di voto/ flussi elettorali
I can't find the exact meaning of the term. I've thought of translating as 'electoral trends' or 'electoral analysis' but I can't figure out which is the right meaning. The sentence I'm grappling with is the following:

YouTrend si basa sulla media dei sondaggi disponibili, il CISE usa una sua stima frutto sia dei sondaggi che dei flussi di voto.
Natalia Baeza
Italy
Local time: 09:36
English translation:vote fluctuations/ electoral flows
Explanation:
Vote fluctuations: see the definition in the first link
Electoral flows: definition in the second link
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bluenoric
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4Voting tendencies /electoral tendencies
Ellen Kraus
3 +1vote fluctuations/ electoral flows
bluenoric
3Vote flows
Patrick Hopkins


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Voting tendencies /electoral tendencies


Explanation:
flussi in the sense of streams / new streams in the voters´ electoral behaviour
Referendum, l'analisi del voto: i flussi dei partiti e le tendenze per ...
www.corriere.it/.../referendum-l-analisi-voto-flussi-partit... - Diese Seite übersetzen
06.12.2016 - Referendum, l'analisi del voto: i flussi dei partiti e le tendenze per fasce di età. L'esame dei flussi elettorali. Tornata alle urne una quota degli

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I think One could Interpret the Term as "voting tendencies and electoral tendencies"


Ellen Kraus
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1 day 9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Vote flows


Explanation:
Third time's a charm (maybe).

Looking at the CISE website (as others have mentioned) makes it clear that we are talking about a specific phenomenon, i.e., the shift in voting from one election to the next. To do this, they use a specific kind of chart that illustrates movement or "flows", so the word "flow" needs to be in the translation. Therefore we are talking about "vote flows", more specific than "trends".

For example:

http://www.ippr.org/juncture/learning-the-right-lessons-from...

See Figure 3: VOTE FLOWS BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015

It is a square flow chart, illustrating the same phenomenon as the circular chart at CISE.

Here, we have a generic description of these types of "flow" charts:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28940517/d3-how-to-create...



Patrick Hopkins
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1 day 22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
vote fluctuations/ electoral flows


Explanation:
Vote fluctuations: see the definition in the first link
Electoral flows: definition in the second link


    https://books.google.de/books?id=lugIjqeH1DcC&pg=RA1-PR116&lpg=RA1-PR116&dq=%22vote+fluctuation%22&source=bl&ots=K7N31NECg9&sig=qBxy36lgepaH
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/2132071?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
bluenoric
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agree  Michael Korovkin: yep, that's it
5 hrs
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