new_contents: from django.conf import settings
  
  # This is actually taken from Pombola's country-specific code package
  # in pombola/country/__init__.py. You should add to this list anything
  # country-specific you want to be available through an import from
  # candidates.election_specific
  
  imports_and_defaults = []
  
  # Note that one could do this without the dynamic import and use of
  # globals() by switching on country names and importing * from each
  # country specific module, as MapIt does. [1] I slightly prefer the
  # version here since you can explicitly list the names to be imported,
  # and provide a default value.
  #
  # [1] https://github.com/mysociety/mapit/blob/master/mapit/countries/__init__.py
  
  for name_to_import, default_value in imports_and_defaults:
      if settings.ELECTION_APP:
          try:
              globals()[name_to_import] = \
                  getattr(
                      __import__(
                          settings.ELECTION_APP_FULLY_QUALIFIED + '.lib',
                          fromlist=[name_to_import]
                      ),
                      name_to_import
                  )
          except (ImportError, AttributeError):
              globals()[name_to_import] = default_value
      else:
          globals()[name_to_import] = default_value
  
subject: Add a module for election-specific functions