Data on voting/opinions of the members of State Legislative Assemblies

Eduardo Campillo Betancourt

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Sep 28, 2020, 8:13:11 PM9/28/20

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Hello,

I am looking for any data on how people in state assemblies voted on specific bills or laws. I have found that roll call voting does not happen in India and that there might not be data on how specific members of the legislative assemblies voted. However, are you aware of any potential proxy at the member level? For instance, perhaps text analysis of transcripts of the assembly discussions. Or do you know if there are such transcripts themselves for me to scrape/analyze?

Additionally, I know there is pretty good data on affidavits of candidates to parliament but is there such data on candidates to the state assemblies as well?

Thank you in advance for your help and attention!

Best,

Eduardo

Akshay Aditya

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Sep 28, 2020, 10:26:37 PM9/28/20

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Eduardo,

It might be difficult to find this information. However there are a few possible proxy sources, the parliamentary website of the central government has a day to day log of proceedings, and many state assembly websites also have a similar website. While it’s not possible to find individual votes, you can find two things:

1. Opposition opinion : This will tell you each parties position regarding the bill.

2. Members present on the day of the vote : The anti- defection bill makes it impossible for people to vote outside party whip. So if a whip has been issued (which in most cases will be true), you can be 100% sure that all members present voted along party lines.

You can cross reference these two things and get the data you need.

Hope this helps,

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Kishore Kumar

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Sep 29, 2020, 7:35:04 AM9/29/20

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Hi Akshay Aditya.

Just wanted to add one thing regarding "So if a whip has been issued (which in most cases will be true), you can be 100% sure that all members present voted along party lines"

There are cases where the rebel MLA will do invalid votes on purpose instead of voting along party lines or against the party.

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Eduardo Campillo Betancourt

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Sep 30, 2020, 7:12:12 PM9/30/20

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Hi Ashkay,

That is excellent, I was looking for exactly a record of day-to-day proceedings. Thank you!

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Eduardo

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Eduardo Campillo Betancourt

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Sep 30, 2020, 7:12:26 PM9/30/20

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Hi Kishore,

I guess there might not be many instances but maybe I could use absenteeism as a potential proxy for wanting to vote against the party. Thank you for this information, it is very useful!

Best,

Eduardo

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