Foxtail Research

In the previous blogs, I was discussing about the trends in winning margins over all the election years. We see that seats with less victory margins are increasing over the election years. In the quest to find out which can be tagged as ‘Swing’ seats, I identified seats where the…

In the previous post, I mentioned that there are 39 seats where parties won with less than 1% vote difference and 23 seats where parties won with 1%-2% vote difference. Together there are 62 seats with very less vote difference, and they are close elections. If the results shift in…

In my previous post, I generated a plot which binned constituencies based on number of parties that won in that constituency. We got a plot that showed majority of the constituencies having elected 3-8 parties. A few of them fell in the extremes in the plot having elected less than…

The first set of questions for anyone wanting to know about a constituency is – Which party does he/she belong to? I tried to dig more into these questions. I retrieved all the constituencies and identified/counted the parties elected so far for each of the constituency. Apart from basic questions,…

I am attaching the link to a CSV file which has the election results for all the elections held so far. Other than for recent election years 2014 and 2019, all the other elections have the downloads as PDF file in India Election Commission website. I wrote python script to…