In a landmark transfer aimed toward selling transparency and analysis, the Election Fee of India (ECI) has launched the world’s largest electoral dataset unveiling 42 statistical experiences on 2024 Lok Sabha elections and 14 experiences every on 4 state meeting elections.
The Election Fee stated that these 100 statistical experiences will likely be a treasure trove for academicians, researchers, and election watchers worldwide for in-depth evaluation and coverage insights.
The information units present particulars of Parliamentary Constituency/Meeting Constituency /State-wise electors, variety of polling stations, State/ PC smart voter turnout, Social gathering smart vote share, gender-based voting behaviour, state smart participation of girls electors, regional variations, constituency knowledge abstract report, efficiency of Nationwide/ State events/ RUPPs, successful candidates evaluation, constituency smart detailed outcomes and plenty of extra.
“This exhaustive knowledge set empowers stakeholders to slice and cube knowledge for a granular stage evaluation with comparability from knowledge units of earlier elections already obtainable on ECI web site, these experiences will facilitate time-series evaluation to trace long-term outlook and shifts in electoral and political panorama,” an EC official stated.
As per the information, Lok Sabha Elections created world report with 64.64 crore voters exercising their franchise. Variety of nominations filed stood at 12,459 in 2024, as in comparison with 11,692 in 2019. 8,360 candidates contest elections as towards 8,054 in 2019.
The report additionally highlighted that ladies voters outshined male participation, signaling a brand new regular of girls enfranchisement. Feminine voters stood at 65.78 per cent as in comparison with 65.55 per cent for male electors. Feminine Contesting Candidates have been 800, as towards 726 in 2019.
Based on the information, a large 46.four per cent enhance in third-gender electors from 2019. 90,28,696 registered PwD Electors in 2024, as in comparison with 61,67,482 in 2019. Repolling was merely in 40 Polling Stations 0.0038% of Complete Polling Stations (10.52 lakhs) as in comparison with 540 in 2019.
The ECI’s transfer to proactively share the huge dataset ought to silence critics alleging non-disclosure by the ballot physique.
