Election

Reading Time: 3 minsNow that ADR’s tabulated analysed affidavits for all 543 constituencies, let’s see where the rich candidates live. On measure is to look at the number of crorepati candidates. Uttar Pradesh, with over 400 crorepati candidates, […]

Reading Time: 3 minsNow that most candidates’ affidavits have been processed by ADR, we revisit our earlier visualisations on criminal cases. Let’s start with the % of candidates with criminal cases. On the left was our earlier result.

Reading Time: 2 minsFor measuring a company performance “Return on equity” is a primary metric. But for measuring a government’s performance, there is no similar metric. Traditionally Indian elections are contested by parties based on social aspects like

Reading Time: 2 minsHere’s a brief overview of the technology that’s powering the CNN-IBN Microsoft Election Analytics Centre. (That’s the site behind http://bing.com/elections and http://ibnlive.in.com/general-elections-2014/analytics/.) The entire EAC is sitting on a single server in Southeast Asia, hosted

Reading Time: 4 minsADR’s painstaking reports of the ECI affidavits makes for interesting analysis. As of today, 693 candidates out of the 5,380 analysed have cases filed filed against them. As has been pointed out in the press