Encompassing India's Electoral Rolls for 2024 and 2025, along with deleted voter records from the Special Intensive Revision draft list for 2025-26. It is provided in parsed, analyzable formats by author Sharik Laliwala through Harvard Dataverse. Access requires IRB approval or a formal data privacy affirmation.
Use Cases
- Analyze voter list changes by comparing the main Electoral Rolls with the deleted voters' records from the SIR Draft List.
- Study demographic or geographic patterns in voter registration and deletion across the 2024-2026 period.
- Audit the electoral roll revision process using the parsed data from the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
Strengths
- Covers a multi-year period including 2024, 2025, and the 2025-26 draft revision cycle.
- Provides data from a formal electoral process, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), conducted in India.
Limitations
- Specific data structure, column names, and row counts are unknown, limiting immediate analytical utility.
- Access is restricted and requires formal institutional review board (IRB) approval or equivalent, creating a significant barrier to use.
- The dataset's completeness and geographic granularity within India are unspecified.