Billion Ballots

Indian election analysis and forecast builder

Politics

Maps

Data Visualization

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I've been interested in political and data analysis since I was a teenager. What always bothered me was how hard it was to see the record of modern India's own democracy – who won where, by how much, and how that has changed. I wanted something that didn't exist: a way to look at any Indian election, in any year, on the map as it actually was. Not a spreadsheet or a static table, not a news-night dashboard that vanishes after the count, and not history flattened onto today's boundaries. India has a billion voters and one of the richest electoral records anywhere in the world, and most of it sits in PDFs. Billion Ballots is my attempt to change that: to make serious political analysis of India something anyone can do from a browser, for free. It covers Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha results from 1951 to today, drawn on the constituency boundaries in force at the time. Here's what you can do: Billion Ballots is an election atlas for India: Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha results, 1951 to today, drawn on the constituency boundaries that were in force at the time, not today's. What you can do 🗺️ Map any election. Colour a state or the whole country by winning party, zoom to a single seat, and step through years. 📇 Open a seat profile. Every constituency has its result history, margins, runner-up, candidates and a plain-English rating: Safe, Lean, Competitive or Toss-up. Each rating shows the number that sets it. 🔄 See the swing. Compare two elections seat by seat, only where both were fought on the same boundaries, so the comparison is fair. 🎛️ Build your forecast. Move the swing slider and watch seats change hands. It starts from each seat's last result and is a what-if tool, not a prediction. You can share your scenario as a link. ⏳ Watch the timeline. Replay the map election by election, for the Lok Sabha or any state. 📍 Find my seat. Your location is matched to your Lok Sabha and assembly seats in your browser. The coordinates never leave the page. 🏛️ Try the Delimitation Bill 2026 Simulator. See how seats could be redistributed state by state in an 815-seat House. 🎨 Party and alliance pages. NDA, UPA and INDIA appear only in the years they existed. 📊 Development context. Census 2011 and NFHS-5 figures for each seat's district. It describes places and never ranks them. 📖 Story cards. A short, fact-checked written account of each election. 🎬 A guided tour. A short film drawn live from the site's own maps and results, with narration in English or Hindi. It's free and needs no sign-up. I'd love to hear which seat you looked up first and what's missing.