Just for laughs (Re: PHP Group PHP predictions discussion).

Predictions.php

<?php
/* If [1] Paul the Octopus can successfully predict the winners for the 2010
 * FIFA World Cup 11 out of 13 times, perhaps, just for laughs, we can give it
 * a go in PHP. ;-)
 *
 * The three next closest up-coming general elections in the world at the
 * moment, as far as I could determine via googling, seem to be in [2] Ghana
 * (7 December 2016, with John Dramani Mahama vs Nana Akufo-Addo), [3]
 * Macedonia (11 December 2016, with Nikola Gruevski vs Zoran Zaev), and [3]
 * Romania (11 December 2016, with Liviu Dragnea vs Alina Gorghiu vs Călin
 * Popescu-Tăriceanu). Let's see how PHP will predict the results via using [5]
 * mt_rand(), and we can compare the results of the predictions after the
 * elections (pro-tip: I anticipate a very poor success rate).
 *
 * References:
 * - [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus
 * - [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_general_election,_2016
 * - [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_parliamentary_election,_2016
 * - [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_legislative_election,_2016
 * - [5] http://php.net/mt_rand
 *
 * (I just wrote this for fun, just now).
 *
 * Offsets: Based on percentile of results from the previous election (where
 * available) or popular opinion polls (where previous elections results aren't
 * available).
 */

$TestParams = array(
  'Ghana' => array(array('John Dramani Mahama' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.4133), array('Nana Akufo-Addo' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.5333)),
  'Macedonia' => array(array('Nikola Gruevski' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.43), array('Zoran Zaev' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.253)),
  'Romania' => array(array('Liviu Dragnea' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.3352), array('Alina Gorghiu' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.2841), array('Popescu-Tăriceanu' => 0, 'Offset' => 1.0))
);

$Elections = count($TestParams);
for ($ElectionNumber = 0; $ElectionNumber < $Elections; $ElectionNumber++) {
    $Country = key($TestParams);
    next($TestParams);
    echo $Country . ' election winner: ';
    $Candidates = count($TestParams[$Country]);
    $TotalVotes = 0;
    for ($CandidateNumber = 0; $CandidateNumber < $Candidates; $CandidateNumber++) {
        $Candidate = key($TestParams[$Country][$CandidateNumber]);
        for ($Iterate = 0; $Iterate < 100000; $Iterate++) {
            $ThisCycle = mt_rand(0, 100) * $TestParams[$Country][$CandidateNumber]['Offset'];
            $TotalVotes += $ThisCycle;
            $TestParams[$Country][$CandidateNumber][$Candidate] += $ThisCycle;
        }
    }
    usort($TestParams[$Country], function() {
        $Results = func_get_args();
        $Candidates = count($Results);
        $A = key($Results[0]);
        $B = key($Results[1]);
        if ($Results[0][$A] === $Results[1][$B]) {
            return 0;
        }
        return ($Results[0][$A] < $Results[1][$B]) ? 1 : -1;
    });
    reset($TestParams[$Country]);
    $WinnerNumber = key($TestParams[$Country]);
    $WinnerName = key($TestParams[$Country][$WinnerNumber]);
    $VotePercent = round(($TestParams[$Country][$WinnerNumber][$WinnerName] / $TotalVotes) * 100, 2);
    echo $WinnerName . ', by ' . $VotePercent . "% of the vote!\n";
}

/*
 * Results:
 *
 * Ghana election winner: Nana Akufo-Addo, by 52.14% of the vote!
 * Macedonia election winner: Nikola Gruevski, by 53.13% of the vote!
 * Romania election winner: Liviu Dragnea, by 36.82% of the vote!
 *
 * BTW, if I actually somehow manage to get all three correct, you guys all owe cookies.
 */