Dataset Overview

This Dataset contains Election Year-wise list of political parties participated in all the Lok Sabha Elections Conducted in India. It also contains recognition status of each party for each year

Premium

Organisation

Election Commission of India

Sectors

Electoral Statistics

Update Frequency

As and When

Granularity

Yearly

Time Saved

4 hours

Number of rows

2837

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

Not Applicable

Data Preview

year	lok_sabha_number	party_abbreviation	party_name	party_type
2019	Seventeenth	BJP	Bharatiya Janata Party	National Party
2019	Seventeenth	CPI	Communist Party of India	National Party
2019	Seventeenth	INC	Indian National Congress	National Party
2019	Seventeenth	KEC	Kerala Congress	Registered Unrecognised Party
2019	Seventeenth	PPA	People's Party of Arunachal	State Party
2019	Seventeenth	RSP	Revolutionary Socialist Party	State Party
2019	Seventeenth	TDP	Telugu Desam	State Party
2019	Seventeenth	JMM	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	State Party
2019	Seventeenth	SAD	Shiromani Akali Dal	State Party
2019	Seventeenth	JP	Janata Party	Registered Unrecognised Party

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	19	0	Number	2837
lok_sabha_number	17	0	Text	2837
party_abbreviation	1520	967	Text	2837
party_name	1527	998	Text	2837
party_type	4	0	Text	2837
note	0	0	Unsupported	0

Citation

Election Commission of India. Master Data: Election Year-wise list of Political Parties participated in all the Lok Sabha Elections Conducted in India [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/18045

Master Data: Election Year-wise list of Political Parties participated in all the Lok Sabha Elections Conducted in India