Political Career Tracker

Political Career Tracker (PCT) is an online tool developed by the Trivedi Centre of Political Data to track the political careers of candidates who have contested in any Central or State level Election in India since 1962.

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(i) Please note that this is spelling-sensitive so the results will vary according to what is typed in the search box.
(i) Choose either Lok Sabha (Parliament) or Vidhan Sabha (State Assembly)
(i) Select State/UT
(i) Select the term of the Legislative House that you want to see.
This is displayed on hover with an 'a' suffix.
(i) Choose to include bye-elections or not.
(i) Select the variable that is seen in the candidate box.

No label : No number is displayed in the candidate squares below

Assemblies Won : The total number of unique assemblies in which a candidate has won

Assemblies Contested : The total number of unique assemblies in which a candidate has stood for election
(i) Choose to display Only Winners or All Candidates. A winning candidate is displayed as a square, and a losing candidate is displayed in a circle.
(i) Filter for candidates based on their political history.

Newcomers : Contested elections for the first time

Rerunning Incumbents : Sitting MP/MLAs at the time of elections

Previously Contested : Contested at least once before (candidates who are not newcomers)

Stable political class : Candidates who have served more than two terms

Turncoats : Candidates who contested earlier from a different party.
(i) Filter candidates by gender
(i) Filter by reserveration of constituency