Dataset Overview

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Organisation

Election Commission of India

Sectors

Electoral Statistics

Update Frequency

As and When

Granularity

State

Time Saved

4 hours

Number of rows

487

Number of Columns

Sources

ECI Statistical Reports

Time Period

1951, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021

Units

Not Applicable

Data Preview

year	state	party_name	party_abbreviation	party_type
2021	West Bengal	Independent	IND	Independent Candidates
2021	West Bengal	All India Trinamool Congress	AITC	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Communist Party of India	CPI	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Communist Party of India(Marxist)	CPI(M)	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star	CPIM	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Indian National Congress	INC	National Party
2021	West Bengal	National Peoples Party	NPEP	National Party
2021	West Bengal	Jamat-E-Seratul Mustakim	JESM	Registered Unrecognised Party

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	17	0	Number	487
state	1	0	Text	487
party_name	170	79	Text	487
party_abbreviation	185	92	Text	487
party_type	5	0	Text	472
note	0	0	Unsupported	0

Citation

Election Commission of India. List of Political Parties Participated in all the Assembly Elections held in West Bengal [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/14706/

List of Political Parties Participated in all the Assembly Elections held in West Bengal