This will be a tough nut to crack with just the name.. especially because fielding 'dummy candidates' with same or very similar names is a fairly common practice.. Used to split votes.. As employed by the veteran ajit jogi in mahasamund.. Maybe eci will make some kind of identification number mandatory in future, or they have already. On May 19, 2014 9:32 AM, "Dilip Damle" <cadvis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello to all, > > Thanks for this data. > > I was wondering if there is a way to Uniquely identify the Contestant > If someone wants to create a track record of the contestants over period > then this is important > Just name is not sufficient. > > I tried to look for Duplicate Name&Party combinations > > Including independents there are 97 duplicate combinations > Excluding independents there are 16 > 7 candidates named as Chandu Lal Sahu contested from Chhattisgarh, > Mahasamund > Since they are from same constituency there are obviously different > individuals. > > However there is no way to differentiate multiple persons with same name > and Same person contesting in two constituencies. > Any way out? > > Rgds > Dilip Damle > > On Saturday, May 17, 2014 8:40:52 PM UTC+5:30, Pratap Vardhan wrote: >> >> Ravi, >> >> I did change the code a bit this afternoon. You would find the mentioned >> places in the repo files >> >> Regards, >> Pratap >> > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
