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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Decoding Congress, BJP poll picks

Hindustan Times
By Gilles Verniers
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Smallest and biggest victory margins in the history of the Lok Sabha elections

The Hindu
By Vignesh Radhakrishnan
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Evolving Shades of Elections

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By S.Y. Quraishi
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Parties pick new candidates as anti-incumbency plays spoiler

Hindustan Times
By Gilles Verniers
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What UP tie-ups portend for BJP in Lok Sabha polls

Hindustan Times
By Neelanjan Sircar
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This Congress is Unholy

The Economic Times
By Gilles Verniers
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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Why states matter in the battle for India

Hindustan Times
By Roshan Kishore
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Lok Sabha election 2019: The gains for BJP were not uniform across all states after the Kargil war

Hindustan Times
By Neelanjan Sircar
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Why voters don’t turn up in larger numbers in Lok Sabha elections – all politics is local

ThePrint
By Pradeep Chhibber, Francesca Jensenius and Harsh Shah
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February 2019

Project Updates: SURF is a data cleaning tool that the Trivedi Center built to map out trajectories of politicians – how they contest, and when they win. The challenge in analyzing this is that there are variations in the names of contestants across elections – for example, Mr. L.K. Advani has run under several different variations of the spellings (Lal Krishna Advani, Advani Lalkrushna, etc). This problem is overcome by implementing a name matching algorithm that is customized to the task of matching Indian names.