India: election results by polling station

2019 · 1 election · IND

SAGE has legislative election results for India from 2019. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2019 election has 1,020,235 polling stations, and 65% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.

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Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

Year	Election type	Vote type	Round	Units	% located	Votes	Polygons
2019	Legislative (lower house)			1,020,235	65%	590,767,293	yes	[map]

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 121 MB] [gpkg 37 MB] [parquet 67 MB] [rds 65 MB] [codebook 21 MB]

Year	Downloads
2019	[csv 121 MB] [gpkg 37 MB] [parquet 51 MB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("India", years = 2019)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("India", years=[2019])

Sources

Respective State and Union Territory Election Commissions

Notes

Thiessen polygons are generated separately by region, given substantial variation in how results are reported, digitized, and geocoded across states and union territories.
Three supplementary shapefiles for India are provided: Thiessen polygons, 1km point buffer, and 5km point buffer.

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

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