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The data on our website is available to the users to refer, display or include the data in research publications/other products of research and information dissemination for non-commercial purposes at no cost subject to following requirements:

  1. Citation: The user must cite the data they use in the manner indicated below:

Data set

Basic form:
Author/Rightsholder. (Year). Title of data set (version number) [Description of form]. Location: Name of producer

Or

Author/Rightsholder. (Year). Title of data set (version number) [Description of form]. Available from [website name and url]

The user must not claim or imply that ADR endorses the user’s use of the data or use ADR’s logo (s) or trademark (s) in conjunction with the same.

  1. Publication: Users of our data are required to send us bibliographic citations and information on your publication at [email protected] about any publications that result from the use of any of our data.


If you are a news media house/independent journalist citing our data in your publications/web articles, kindly mention that data was sourced from Association for Democratic Reforms; you may also take the liberty to link it to our website.

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Please do not:

  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
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  • redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without ADR’s express written consent.

  1. Disclaimer: All data on the our website has been sourced from the information made available by the Election Commission of India on political parties contesting candidates etc. In absence of availability of information on the ECI website, ADR files RTI applications from time to time to procure such information. ADR does not add or subtract any information, unless the ECI changes the data. In particular no unverified information from any other source is used.


While all efforts have been made to ensure that the information is in keeping with what is available in the ECI website, in case of discrepancy between information on the our website and that given in the ECI website, the information available ECI website should be treated as correct. Association for Democratic Reforms, National Election Watch and their volunteers are not responsible or liable for any damage arising directly or indirectly from the publication of this information on the website.

The user is encouraged to report any errors, omissions and/or misrepresentations to us by contacting us at [email protected]

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