Learn All About Upcoming Assembly Elections & Predict Results

For the first time in India, all information on past three elections in MP, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is now available in a user-friendly style, with detailed maps at a specially designed portal designed by and available here.

And, if you want to play around with the previous data, factor in current alliances and issues that are affecting voters, then you can do that too!

The data facility has been built using official Election Commission data, so its totally authentic. It can serve as a very useful tool for journalists, political commentators and analysts, and of course, all those interested in how elections play out in these states.

For instance, you want to know the results of the 2013 Assembly elections in Rajasthan and then compare it to the 2014 General Election results in the state. A button leads you to a comparing facility through which you will get the exact number of seats Congress or BJP or other relevant parties got in 2013 and how this changed in 2014 (Parliamentary seats broken down to Assembly segments).

You want to study how BJP has fared in the Malwa region or how BSP does in the Bundelkhand region of MP? Just select the region and look at all the data.

The data repository promises to be an invaluable resource for journalists on the move as it gives them easy access to data drilled down to each constituency in these three states, on the mobile phone or on laptop. The URL is also available for them to copy and use as a hyperlink for the stories they file using this data. There is a separate section for reporters for this, available here.

For those more interested in a more grounded approach to figuring out what the results are likely to be when they are announced on December 11, the Election Game is a handy tool.

You can swing the votes by whatever proportion you want in favour or against whatever party you want. Supposing you think that in Rajasthan, the farmers’ discontent and unemployment are working against the incumbent BJP govt. (actually they are!) and, you estimate, that at least 6% voters will shift away from BJP. Just drag the BJP swing to minus 6%, increase that much for Congress or CPI(M) (which was leading the farmers’ movement) and presto! – you get a state-wide result for the Rajasthan Assembly. It will be this: Congress will get a comfortable 113 seats defeating BJP with 71 seats. The same can be done for MP and Chhattisgarh.

So, there you have it. A one stop portal for all the data and all the permutations and combinations that are possible in the mind-boggling complexity of Indian elections.

Try it out and let us know how it works!