Government
Data Governance

Election models built to 80% accuracy.
Cloud costs down 30%.

A rebuilt data governance framework brought multi-jurisdictional electoral data up to 98% accuracy, and the predictive models built on top of it forecast election outcomes with 80% accuracy — all while cutting cloud costs by 30%.

98% data accuracy
multi-jurisdictional
80% election model
accuracy
30% cloud cost
reduction
Real-time campaign
insights

Client

A prominent data analytics and advisory company delivering electoral insight to government and corporate clients across multiple jurisdictions.

Goal

Optimise electoral insights by putting robust data governance in place and building advanced analytics models to support government and corporate decision-making.

Electoral data spanned jurisdictions, but nobody could vouch for it.

The client ran electoral analytics across multiple jurisdictions for government and corporate clients, but the data feeding those projects had no consistent governance behind it. Without a framework to guarantee accuracy and reliability, every downstream model and campaign insight inherited that uncertainty.

On top of that, there was no predictive capability turning the data into decisions. Government clients needed forecasts they could act on, and campaigns needed analytics delivered on the timelines that electoral strategy and policy planning actually run on — not after the fact.

Three constraints were non-negotiable:

  • No consistent data governance across multi-jurisdictional projects
  • No predictive model translating data into electoral forecasts
  • Analytics too slow to inform live campaign and policy decisions

Fix the data. Then build the models on top of it.

The first move was governance, not modelling. Data governance strategies were implemented to enforce integrity across every multi-jurisdictional project, so the numbers feeding into any downstream forecast could actually be trusted.

Government decision-making is only as good as the data behind it — so the data got fixed before a single model was built.

With that foundation in place, predictive models were designed and deployed to forecast election outcomes at 80% accuracy, generating real-time campaign insights rather than retrospective reports.

Cloud infrastructure was rebuilt on Azure and PostgreSQL to improve data processing efficiency, which is what made the cost reduction possible without giving up performance.

Trusted data. Accurate forecasts. Lower bills.

98% Data accuracy achieved across multi-jurisdictional electoral projects, improving data quality and decision-making throughout.
80% Accuracy in the predictive election models, directly shaping key campaign strategies and political decision-making.
30% Cut in cloud costs after optimising the data infrastructure on Azure and PostgreSQL, with performance maintained.
Real-time Campaign insights delivered as they happened, not after the fact, alongside the forecasting models.

Governance came first, and the payoff followed: 98% data accuracy across every jurisdiction, election models forecasting outcomes at 80% accuracy, and a 30% cut in cloud costs — proof that getting the data right is what makes everything built on top of it worth trusting.

* Case studies reflect work undertaken by our Heads of AI either during their tenure with Head of AI or in prior roles before they were part of the Head of AI network; they are provided for illustrative purposes only and are based on conversations with our Heads of AI.

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*Case studies reflect work undertaken by our Heads of AI either during their tenure with Head of AI or in prior roles before they were part of the Head of AI network; they are provided for illustrative purposes only and are based on conversations with our Heads of AI.