Datanet India launches Assembly Factbooks for 182 Assembly seats of Gujarat

New Delhi/Gandhinagar: An Information Technology enabled Services Company, has launched an Assembly Factbooks on Gujarat which contains the demographic and electoral features along with past election results at assembly level since independence and polling station level results for elections after 2008 delimitation in all the 182 assembly constituencies in Gujarat.

Co-founder and Director of Datanet India, Dr. R.K. Thukral said that the factbook in all its three versions print, e-book and web access was launched in the national capital today.

“It is more of a vast compilation of relevant data at one place and meant for the researchers, contestants, civil societies and others interested in it. We have taken help from the election commission data and 2011 census also. All the elections and by-elections of Gujarat assembly till date have been included in it,’ he said.

He claimed it to be first of its kind factbook saying that earlier his company had launched such factbooks for UP, Uttarakhand and Punjab before last assembly elections in these states.

‘We have also launched a similar factbook for Himachal Pradesh where elections are due to be held this year. We would also launch such books on Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan before next assembly polls in there,’ Thukral said.

‘The authenticity of the data provided in these paid assembly level books are trustworthy since these have been collected and compiled from the offices of the Election Commission of India (ECI), Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Gujarat and State Election Commission. It also covers the Datanet India’s estimates for demographic and socio-economic access of data at assembly constituency level. The statistical data, maps, graphs and charts are incorporated in these books in order to present the exhaustive information about a particular assembly constituency in an impressive format. This one stop electoral data guide is the absolute solution to all passionate electoral data-seekers which asses the electoral timeline of a particular assembly constituency,’ he said.

Considering the potential usage of Assembly Factbooks, these have been made available online at its portal www.datanetindia-ebooks.com and are also being offered in print, eBook and web access formats to cover the vastly scattered users. To assess the status of a particular assembly constituency with party performance, these demographic and electoral featured data are mainly resourceful for the assembly level strategic planning and research by the election strategists, political parties leadership, contesting candidates, media persons, community/ pressure groups, political parties office bearers, psephologist, political scientists, students/faculty from political science and scholars from other disciplines. These data would further help in analyzing the past election results and preparation for the forthcoming assembly elections in terms of performance by parties and candidates,’ he added.

He said, ”in this an era of internet, where everything is available in one single touch but still encapsulated constituency wise electoral data is not easily accessible. There is a need of more electoral data and more analysis in present days so that more research in this field should come out, which is, an utmost vital aspect to make India’s democratic framework better. Hence, this book is the answer and perfect key to this problem.”

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