Dataset Overview

The Dataset contains data on Year-wise, State-wise, Constituency-wise, Constituency Category-wise and Gender-wise Number of Candidates who have Contested in the Elections, who filed Nominations, whose Nominations were rejected and withdrawn and who have forfeited Deposits. This data is available across all the Lok Sabha Elections held in India

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Organisation

Election Commission of India

Sectors

Electoral Statistics

Update Frequency

As and When

Granularity

Yearly, State

Time Saved

4 hours

Number of rows

87835

Number of Columns

Sources

ECI Statistical Reports

Time Period

1971, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019

Units

value in Absolute Number

Data Preview

year	lok_sabha_number	state	constituency_number	constituency_name	constituency_type	category	gender	value	unit
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Contesting Candidates	Female	1	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Contesting Candidates	Male	10	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Contesting Candidates	Total	11	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Forfeited Deposits	Male	8	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Forfeited Deposits	Female	0	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Forfeited Deposits	Total	8	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Nominations Filed	Male	10	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Nominations Filed	Female	1	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Nominations Filed	Total	11	value in Absolute Number
2019	Seventeenth	West Bengal	9	Jangipur	General	Nominations Rejected	Female	0	value in Absolute Number

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	14	0	Number	87835
lok_sabha_number	12	0	Text	87835
state	38	0	Text	87835
constituency_number	85	0	Number	87835
constituency_name	713	0	Text	87835
constituency_type	3	0	Text	87835
category	5	0	Text	87835
gender	4	0	Text	87835
value	129	40	Number	87835
unit	1	0	Text	87835
note	0	0	Unsupported	0

Citation

Election Commission of India. Master Data: State, Gender, Constituency and its category-wise Number of Candidates who have Contested, Nominations filed, rejected, withdrawn and forfeited deposits in all the Lok Sabha Elections [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/18043

Master Data: State, Gender, Constituency and its category-wise Number of Candidates who have Contested, Nominations filed, rejected, withdrawn and forfeited deposits in all the Lok Sabha Elections