Hello,
Is there anywhere I can get a database of the present candidates standing for elections? I tried the Election Commission website (http://eci.nic.in) but they do not have a download. All that exists there is a .net form with postbacks, and it looks like a pain to scrape. IBN does have some data, but it seems incomplete with a lot of parties and candidates missing.
Any help would be really useful.
Regards, Aniketh
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, aniketh patrick wrote:
Hello,
IBN does have some data, but it seems incomplete with a lot of parties and candidates missing.
I presume this has something to do with the FOSS petition. Last date for filing is not yet up, so the list wont be complete. The best place would be party HQ.
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 15:23:51 jtd wrote:
IBN does have some data, but it seems incomplete with a lot of parties and candidates missing.
I presume this has something to do with the FOSS petition. Last date for filing is not yet up, so the list wont be complete. The best place would be party HQ.
if it is to do with the FOSS petition, why is it marked OT?
Hello,
No, this has nothing to do with the FOSS petition. Also, the last date for filing is complete for phase 1. This data is already available, but behind a form (http://eci.nic.in/candidateinfo/frmcandidate.aspx).
I was looking for either a direct db download (xml, mdb, csv, txt, anything) or some other place where it is available (website also).
Regards, Aniketh
On 07/04/09 3:23 PM, "jtd" jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, aniketh patrick wrote:
Hello,
IBN does have some data, but it seems incomplete with a lot of parties and candidates missing.
I presume this has something to do with the FOSS petition. Last date for filing is not yet up, so the list wont be complete. The best place would be party HQ.
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Kenneth Gonsalves