Dataset Overview

This Dataset contains state and political party-wise data related to seats contested, forfeited deposit seats and seats won by each party in all the Lok Sabha Elections Conducted in India.

Premium

Organisation

Election Commission of India

Sectors

Electoral Statistics

Update Frequency

As and When

Granularity

Yearly, State

Time Saved

4 hours

Number of rows

20324

Number of Columns

Sources

ECI Statistical Reports

Time Period

1951, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1971, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019

Units

value in Absolute Number

Data Preview

year	lok_sabha_number	state	party_type	party_name	party_abbreviation	seats_type	value	unit
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	National Party	Indian National Congress	INC	Seats Contested	40	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	National Party	All India Trinamool Congress	AITC	Seats Contested	42	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	National Party	Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	Seats Contested	42	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	National Party	Communist Party of India(Marxist)	CPM	Seats Contested	31	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	National Party	Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	Seats Contested	37	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	Registered Unrecognised Party	Welfare Party of India	WPOI	Seats Contested	2	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	Registered Unrecognised Party	Social Democratic Party of India	SDPI	Seats Contested	1	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	Registered Unrecognised Party	Purvanchal Janta Party (Secular)	PUJP	Seats Contested	3	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	Registered Unrecognised Party	Socialist Unity Centre of India	SUCI(C)	Seats Contested	42	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	Independent	Independent	IND	Seats Contested	112	value in Absolute Number

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	19	0	Number	20324
lok_sabha_number	17	0	Text	20324
state	52	0	Text	20324
party_type	4	0	Text	20324
party_name	1528	10	Text	20324
party_abbreviation	1521	11	Text	20324
seats_type	4	0	Text	20324
value	261	107	Number	20324
unit	1	0	Text	20324
note	0	0	Unsupported	0

Citation

Election Commission of India. Master Data: State and Political Party-wise data related to Seats Contested, Forfeited Deposit Seats and Seats Won by each party in all the Lok Sabha Elections Conducted in India [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/18033

Master Data: State and Political Party-wise data related to Seats Contested, Forfeited Deposit Seats and Seats Won by each party in all the Lok Sabha Elections Conducted in India