Disclaimer & License
What this site is, where its numbers come from, and what you may do with them.
Disclaimer
Janadesh is an independent, public-interest project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Election Commission of India, any political party, or any government body.
The underlying data spans more than six decades and includes records compiled and harmonised from historical statistical reports, along with a set of 2024 Lok Sabha results recovered from archived captures of a since-withdrawn Election Commission site. Errors and gaps are possible across a dataset this size and this old — the known ones are listed on the methodology & gaps page, and a correction is made by fixing the load script that produced the number, not by editing a database row.
Where a figure here disagrees with the Election Commission’s own publications, the Commission is right.
License
Election results published on this site are drawn from public records of the Election Commission of India and from the Trivedi Centre for Political Data’s Lok Dhaba dataset. The underlying facts — who contested a seat, who won it, how many votes were cast — are not subject to copyright.
Personal & research use
Free to read, cite, and reference for personal use, journalism, and academic research.
Building on the data
The JSON API that backs this site needs no key, has no rate limit, and is CORS-open — free to query from your own page, script, or product, commercial ones included, subject to the terms the Election Commission and TCPD themselves place on their data.
Attribution
Credit the data to its sources — the Election Commission of India and TCPD Lok Dhaba — not to Janadesh. If you also link to where you read it, link the specific page (a constituency, an election, a candidate) rather than the homepage, so a reader can check the number themselves.
No warranty
This site is provided as-is, without warranty of completeness or accuracy. See methodology & gaps for what is known to be missing, and treat it as a companion to the Commission’s own publications, not a replacement for them.
Credits & sources
Election results
Election Commission of India statistical reports, and the TCPD Lok Dhaba dataset from the Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University — 1962–2019 Lok Sabha and 1961–2023 state assemblies.
2024 Lok Sabha
Recovered from Internet Archive Wayback Machine captures of the Commission’s 2024 results site, withdrawn after the election.
State outline map
The India and state maps are drawn from an SVG by Simplemaps.
Prime Ministers’ photographs
Sourced from Wikimedia Commons, via Wikipedia.
Design & colour
No third-party palette — party colours follow the convention Indian media has used for decades, laid out in the site’s own theme. Built with Tailwind CSS, themed for light and dark independently.
Typography & software
Type is Inter and Source Serif 4, via Google Fonts. Built on Next.js, React and PostgreSQL — no client-side charting library, no analytics, no cookies, no third-party scripts.
If a credit here is wrong or missing, it belongs on the corrections list — see methodology & gaps for how one gets made.