Election Results day

[Rukmini S]

Hi, all. Would anyone who worked on GE-2009 remember if the results came in on the ECI Results page in the same format as (for example) the 2013 Assembly Election results? i.e. with a state-wise page that gives you the winner, with the constituency's unique number, like so: http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseS26.htm?st=S26

And a constituency-wise detailed page without the constituency number, like so: http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS2653.htm?ac=53

Is this also how the format you'd expect the 2014 results to come in?

Thanks,

Rukmini

[gilles....@sciencespo.fr]

Dear Rukmini,

It is very likely that the results will come in the same form. I'll be collating all the results that day and find it useful to just create the format I need, combined with other variables. I'll be happy to share it once we get everything. Do send me a reminder, though.
Best,
Gilles

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[Srinivasan Ramani]

Hi Rukmini, 

The 2009 way was way different. 

I hope they host it in the same format as the previous assembly elections. Considering the elaborate manner they have hosted the results page, I suspect they will retain the same format. (Although considering they have CrystalReports on their site on various other public info recently, I don't know if they have changed). 

Wrote some scripts (with help from another hacker @pallih) to download and extract this data from ECI into csv files. 

They are available here: https://classic.scraperwiki.com/profiles/vrsrini/index.html

Best,

Srini

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[Venkatraman S]

Are the results published online immediately or is their a lag? 

-V

[Gilles VERNIERS]

There is a lag. They publish results seat by seats. We'll get a fairly complete picture by the evening, that is if their result website does not crash, under the number of hits. 

Gilles 

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[Srinivasan Ramani]

Dear Gilles, 

Yes. They are the most accurate and authentic (but of course). The media channels come up with vastly different numbers and sometimes even random numbers. I wish someone on those various panels call them out on it but it never happens. Last time in 2009, some important constituency numbers - such as Sivaganga were shrouded in major controversy partially because news channels jumped the gun in announcing the winner, which turned out to be inaccurate. 

Besides, the news channels never come up with vote shares early enough. 

One good thing about the news channels and their websites is that the ECI site is relatively traffic-free because of the slight lag and slowness of verified updates. 

Best,

Srini

[rukmini shrinivasan]

Thanks everyone. My colleagues have been working on scraping and then having the numbers go directly into a map as they come in, and so were hoping for a rough idea of what the results page layout will be (esp with respect to unique constituency numbers). If they stick to the Assembly 2013 layout, that would be great but who knows with the ECI.

[Ravi Krishnan]

Is the whole country covered by EVM machines? Are there no more invalid votes, and thus we can find the total number of votes polled in a constituency by adding all candidate votes plus NOTA?

Thanks

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[Gilles Verniers]

there are still invalid votes, that is discrepancies, dysfunctioning machines, etc. The ECI adjusts slightly the data before publishing the official results but that takes a while. My experience with previous assembly elections show that it is very marginal so one can discard it at first, and then correct with the official data later on. 

It would be interesting to map the highest turnout scores and compare them with neighbouring booths. There have been a lot of reports of rigging in these elections (40 booths in Assam with turnout above 100%, etc.). 

Gilles

[Venkatraman S]

Btw, are the election expenses data out?

-V