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Political Parties Dataset

Chief Ministers of India

TCPD–CMID is a dataset on the Chief Ministers for 20 Indian states along with their electoral history.

Governors of India

TCPD–GID is a dataset on the Governors for all Indian states and union territories.

LokDhaba: Indian Elections Dataset

TCPD-IED is a dataset of Indian election results - both Vidhan Sabha (state level) and Lok Sabha (national level) - beginning 1962.

Individual Incumbency Dataset

TCPD-IID is a dataset of candidates contesting elections with a unique politician identifier.

Indian Council of Ministers

TCPD–ICoM is a dataset on the sociological composition of governments in India, both at the Union and at the State level.

Question Hour: Indian Parliament Dataset

TCDP-IPD is a dataset of all questions & answers asked between 1999 (Winter Session) and 2019 (Winter Session) along with full text of question.

The Welfarist Prime Minister: Explaining the National-State Election Gap
by Neelanjan Sircar
March 6, 2021
Engage, Economic and Political Weekly
LokDhaba: Acquiring, Visualizing and Disseminating Data on Indian Elections
by Mohit Kumar, Chinmay Narayan, Sudheendra Hangal and Priyamvada Trivedi
June 15, 2020
ACM Compass 2020
A new party system or a new political system?
by Gilles Verniers
June 5, 2020
Contemporary South Asia