Document History

Original Publish Date: 10th August 2021

Updated on: 17 September, 2021

GRAM PRADHAN DATA

It contains data of 4,32,185 candidates

Main variables

##  [1] "Name"               "Gender"             "TotalAssets"       
##  [4] "Turnout_Percentage" "Vote_Percentage"    "Result"            
##  [7] "Block"              "Caste Candidate"    "Age"               
## [10] "EducationDetails"   "CriminalStatus"     "Seat Reservation"  
## [13] "Movable  Assets"    "Immovable Assets"

ALL INFO

Columns Value
Total Districts 75
Total Blocks 826
Total GPs 58064

SEAT INFORMATION

SeatReservation Count Percentage Mean_Turnout_Percentage Mean_Age Mean_Candidates
Unreserved 20359 35.07 74.58 42.20 7.52
Other Backward Caste 10198 17.56 71.85 42.06 7.70
Female 9720 16.74 72.50 41.32 7.82
Scheduled Caste 7740 13.33 69.29 42.47 8.80
OBC Female 5471 9.42 73.06 40.53 7.04
SC Female 4269 7.35 69.71 40.61 8.51
Scheduled Tribe 182 0.31 64.52 41.54 6.24
Scheduled Tribe Female 120 0.21 66.28 38.08 6.40

TOP TWO POSITIONS (MEAN)

Result Age Vote_Percentage Total_Assets_Millions
2nd Rank 42.58 28.92 1.27
Winner 41.78 40.14 1.37

DENSITY PLOT ASSETS

ALL CANDIDATES

ALL CANDIDATES GENDER

ALL CANDIDATES CASTE

Caste_Candidate Mean_Assets_Millions median_Assets_Millions
Other Backward Caste 1.05 0.28
Scheduled Caste 0.63 0.21
Scheduled Tribe 0.40 0.11
Unreserved 1.40 0.35

WINNER

WINNER CASTE

Caste_Candidate Mean_Assets_Millions median_Assets_Millions
Other Backward Caste 1.52 0.35
Scheduled Caste 0.72 0.25
Scheduled Tribe 0.46 0.14
Unreserved 1.80 0.46

WINNER GENDER

Gender Mean_Assets_Millions median_Assets_Millions
Female 1.30 0.30
Male 1.44 0.35

TOP TWO RANKS ASSETS

Winner Distribution

Education Distribution

EducationDetails Count Percentage
Primary 17514 30.17
Inter 8522 14.68
HighSchool 7587 13.07
Graduate 7020 12.09
Illiterate 6236 10.74
Junior High School 5773 9.94
Others 2779 4.79
Post Graduate 2537 4.37
Phd 44 0.08
Diploma 43 0.07

Gender Distribution

Gender Count Percentage
Male 31153 53.66
Female 26902 46.34

Criminality Distribution

CriminalStatus Count Percentage
No 49916 85.98
Not Known 8040 13.85
Yes 99 0.17

ALL CANDIDATE Distribution

Education Distribution

EducationDetails Count Percent
Primary 138441 32.03
Illiterate 57954 13.41
Inter 57371 13.27
HighSchool 54637 12.64
Graduate 44363 10.26
Junior High School 43758 10.12
Others 20498 4.74
Post Graduate 14630 3.39
Diploma 279 0.06
Phd 254 0.06

Gender Distribution

Gender Count Percent
Male 229305 53.06
Female 202880 46.94

Criminality Distribution

CriminalStatus Count Percent
No 371752 86.02
Not Known 59872 13.85
Yes 561 0.13

Caste Distribution

Caste_Candidate Count Percent
Other Backward Caste 224186 51.87
Scheduled Caste 126331 29.23
Unreserved 78847 18.24
Scheduled Tribe 2821 0.65

AVERAGE MARGIN PERCENTAGE

Average Margin Percentage is 11.21

By Gender

Gender Margin_Percentage
Female 11.20
Male 11.24

By Criminality

CriminalStatus Margin_Percentage
No 11.24
Not Known 11.05
Yes 12.01

Assets Distribution

Rank Wise

Education Wise

Gender Wise

CriminalStatus

Type of Assets

ranknew Movable_Percentage Immovable_Percentage
1 18.33 81.67
2 19.29 80.71
>3 19.64 80.36

ALL CANDIDATES ASSETS CLASSIFICATION

By Gender

Gender Movable_Percentage Immovable_Percentage
Female 20.27 79.73
Male 18.60 81.40

By Criminality

CriminalStatus Movable_Percentage Immovable_Percentage
No 19.31 80.69
Not Known 19.47 80.53
Yes 20.80 79.20

Education Details

EducationDetails Movable_Percentage Immovable_Percentage
Diploma 42.29 57.71
Graduate 24.31 75.69
HighSchool 18.38 81.62
Illiterate 18.69 81.31
Inter 20.22 79.78
Junior High School 19.84 80.16
Others 19.86 80.14
Phd 21.24 78.76
Post Graduate 21.91 78.09
Primary 16.68 83.32

DENSITY PLOT

ALL CANDIDATES

Mean No.of Candidates is 9.84

Gender Wise

Seat Reservation

Age

Mean Age of Candidates is 41.04

DENSITY PLOT

EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES

  • Mean ENOC is 3.37
  • Median ENOC is 3.52

Seat Reservation Wise

SeatReservation mean_enop median_enop
Female 4.15 3.68
OBC Female 3.75 3.39
Other Backward Caste 3.88 3.45
SC Female 4.21 3.73
Scheduled Caste 4.14 3.69
Scheduled Tribe 3.66 3.27
Scheduled Tribe Female 3.50 3.27
Unreserved 3.80 3.41

TURNOUT PERCENTAGE ALL UP

Median=71.91 mean=71.49

DISTRICT WISE TURNOUT MEAN & MEDIAN

REGRESSION AT DISTRICT LEVEL

Dependent variable:
Enoc
(1) (2)
Turnout_Percentage -0.006*** 0.003***
(0.0004) (0.001)
Median_Assets_Millions -0.016*** -0.006*
(0.003) (0.003)
Median_Age 0.001* 0.002***
(0.001) (0.001)
Valid_Candidates 0.233*** 0.243***
(0.001) (0.001)
Margin_Percentage -0.056*** -0.055***
(0.0004) (0.0004)
Seat_ReservationSC/ST -0.041*** -0.020
(0.014) (0.013)
Seat_ReservationOBC -0.007 0.011
(0.012) (0.012)
Seat_ReservationOBC Female 0.092*** 0.110***
(0.015) (0.015)
Seat_ReservationSC/ST Female 0.079*** 0.100***
(0.017) (0.017)
Seat_ReservationFemale 0.130*** 0.149***
(0.012) (0.012)
Fixed effects District
Observations 57,899 57,899
R2 0.592 0.617
Adjusted R2 0.592 0.616
Residual Std. Error 1.003 (df = 57888) 0.973 (df = 57814)
Note: p<0.1; p<0.05; p<0.01

VARIATION IN 2015 and 2021 Elections

  • Merged 55,324 villages,761 Blocks,71 districts

TURNOUT DIFFERENCE

  • Mean Turnout Difference Percentage: -2.80
  • Median Turnout Difference Percentage: -2.88

Seat Reservation Turnout Difference

SeatReservation_2021 Turnout_Mean_Diff_Percentage
Female -0.1211163
Unreserved -1.1489365
OBC Female -2.3941749
Other Backward Caste -2.4881551
SC Female -8.0304519
Scheduled Caste -8.1904050
Scheduled Tribe -8.5922857
Scheduled Tribe Female -9.4671186

Candidate Contested Percentage Diff

  • Mean Candidate Difference Percentage: 12.85
  • Median Candidate Difference Percentage: 0

Seat Reservation Candidate Difference

SeatReservation_2021 Cand_Mean_Diff_Percentage
Scheduled Caste 28.809646
SC Female 28.008414
Unreserved 16.431212
Female 5.102546
Scheduled Tribe 4.111854
Other Backward Caste 3.014579
OBC Female -1.868044
Scheduled Tribe Female -2.448908

Margin Percentage Diff

### Seat Reservation Margin Difference median

SeatReservation Median_Margin_Percentage_Diff
Scheduled Tribe Female 22.5973209
OBC Female 11.5711552
Other Backward Caste 6.9868996
Scheduled Caste 5.8975485
SC Female 5.1954000
Unreserved 4.6538312
Female 0.5086874
Scheduled Tribe -5.5944056