A live public-opinion leaderboard for a national election

Outcomes

• 2026national election, delivered on scheduleVerified

The problem

A national election generates plenty of opinion but no easy way to measure it. Candidates answered the same ten policy questions, and the public needed a way to rate those answers and see a live, national-scale leaderboard, with no soft launch and no acceptable downtime, since it ran through an active campaign.

What I did

• Built the front-end where the public rated each candidate's answers to ten fixed policy questions, with per-candidate scores averaged live into a continuously-updating leaderboard.
• Delivered the front-end for a companion real-time results dashboard on schedule; its backend was never finished after the client paused that part of the engagement, so it did not go live.

Constraints

• National scale with concentrated peak load, live through an active campaign
• Accuracy of the averaged score and leaderboard ordering, publicly visible and depended on by media

Stack & tools

• React
• WebSockets
• REST