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Bhavnani India National and State Election Dataset V 2.0

This document contains detailed candidate-level data for elections to the lower houses of India’s national and state legislatures from 1977-2015. The data includes variables like state, year, constituency details, candidate details, party details, votes received, and registered voters. The data can be used to calculate metrics like turnout, vote shares, and winning status.

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Bhavnani India National and State Election Dataset V 2.0

This document contains detailed candidate-level data for elections to the lower houses of India’s national and state legislatures from 1977-2015. The data includes variables like state, year, constituency details, candidate details, party details, votes received, and registered voters. The data can be used to calculate metrics like turnout, vote shares, and winning status.

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India 

National and State Election Dataset 
 
Rikhil R. Bhavnani1 
 
Version 2.0 
 
April 2017 
 
 
This database contains detailed candidate‐level data for elections to the lower houses of India’s national 
and state legislatures, i.e., the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas.  The data span 1977‐2015, with each row 
representing a candidate that ran for office in that state‐year.  
 
The variables in the national election data file are: 
Variable  Storage 
name  type  Variable contents 
     
st_name  str35  State 
Year  Int  General election year 
pc_no  Byte  Parliamentary constituency number 
pc_name  str25  Parliamentary constituency name 
pc_type  str3  Parliamentary constituency reservation status 
cand_name  str70  Candidate name 
cand_sex  str1  Candidate sex 
partyname  str57  Party name 
partyabbre  str10  Party abbreviation 
totvotpoll  Long  Votes received 
electors  Long  Number of registered voters 
     
The variables in the state election data file are: 
Variable  Storage    
Name  type  Variable contents 
 
st_name  str35  State 
Year  float  Assembly election year 
ac_no  int  Assembly constituency number 
ac_name  str28  Assembly constituency name 
ac_type  str5  Assembly constituency reservation status 
cand_name  str98  Candidate name 
cand_sex  str1  Candidate sex 
partyname  str60  Party name 
partyabbre  str11  Party abbreviation 
                                                            
1
 University of Wisconsin‐Madison. 110 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706. 
[email protected]. Please email if you find any errors.  

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totvotpoll  long  Votes received 
electors  long  Number of registered voters 
 
These data can be used to calculate a number of fields, including turnout, vote shares, winning status, 
effective number of parties and so forth.  
 
There were two state elections in Bihar in 2005. In order to distinguish data for the two elections from 
one another, data for the second have the year 2005.1. 
 
Data for bye‐elections are not included.  
 
Data were sourced from the Election Commission of India’s online reports, and from field visits.  
 
If using these data, please cite them as  
 
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., 2017, "India National and State Election Dataset", 
http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26526 Harvard Dataverse Network V2. 
   

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