Live data stream for election results and trends

[Arun Ganesh]

Is there a hidden API from the ECI where one can get the live counts during the tallying process. They are currently updating all the results on http://eciresults.nic.in/ every 5-10minutes.

How do the TV channels do it? Is it all manual?

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Arun Ganesh

(planemad)

[Pratap Vardhan]

TV channels usually use private feeds like Nelson, which have faster data polling than ECI site. If you re looking to use ECI site data, you could scrape using candidate.py and constituency.py from here https://github.com/pratapvardhan/Maharashtra-State-Elections-2014

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

If you looking at spreadsheet analysis of 5 states election data, you can download here[1]. I used my 5-year-old script written to get 2011 results[2] and hats off to ECI for retaining the same system, its still working without a change. I am trying to use Cartodb and visualize some of these data (more specifically TN). Sample [3], more to come.

[1] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2Uxzk6vMxNSc0YzMzMwZ3BoWms

[2] https://gist.github.com/srikanthlogic/971974 

[3] https://srikanthlogic.cartodb.com/tag/tnvotes16viz

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Regards
Srikanth.L