Welcome to Lok Dhaba!

Lok Dhaba is a repository of Indian election results - both Vidhan Sabha (state level) and Lok Sabha (national level) - beginning 1962.

We have recently updated Lok Dhaba with the results of the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha 2023 elections. These results are provisional, and will be finalized once the Election Commission of India issues its final reports. Please note that the detailed data for voter turnout across these states is also released later by the Election Commission. As a result, you will find voter turnout visualizations for these elections to show null data for now. However, for individual constituencies, ECI has released the turnout data. Using this, we've calculated the electors. You can see the constituency-level turnout data for these states in our visualizations, but not the aggregate turnout for the entire state.

We have built a data dashboard that builds on the data available via Lok Dhaba to provide a broad overview of the 7 states for which elections have taken place last year. The available metrics show change between 2017 and 2022 for the states of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.

The data in Lok Dhaba comes originally from the statistical reports published by the Election Commission of India. We have cleaned and treated the data and organized it in a tabular format (which you can see under the “Browse Data” tab). In addition, we have integrated data from bypolls and assigned each contestant a person ID. The latter lets us track individuals' career trajectories over time and is the first of its kind in the context of Indian politics. Using this information, our data allows identification of turncoats and incumbents.

The Lok Dhaba data is free and open for anyone to use. We encourage students, researchers, media persons, policy makers and others to engage with our data. Read what we have published using this data and how its been used by others. Should you have any query and/or notice an error, please send us a message or write us at tcpd-contact@ashoka.edu.in.

For more information, please see the documentation tab, which includes a detailed codebook containing all the variables in Lok Dhaba. Should you use any information from Lok Dhaba, please be sure to cite the Trivedi Center for Political Data at Ashoka University.