Hemanth-thunder/tnelection2026data

📊 Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2026 – Candidate Affidavit Dataset

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains structured information extracted from candidate affidavits submitted during the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. The affidavits are sourced from the official Election Commission of India (ECI) portal: affidavit.eci.gov.in.

The dataset includes detailed financial, professional, and legal disclosures of 4000+ candidates contesting across constituencies in Tamil Nadu.

Candidate affidavits are legally mandated documents submitted during nomination filing and provide transparency regarding candidates’ backgrounds, including assets, income, and criminal records ([MyNeta][1]).

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🧾 Dataset Description

• Source: Election Commission of India (ECI) affidavit portal
• Region: Tamil Nadu
• Election Year: 2026
• Total Records: 4000+ candidates
• Data Type: Structured JSON

The dataset corresponds to the election process where nominations and affidavits are submitted prior to polling ([Wikipedia][2]).

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📂 Dataset Structure

Each record represents a single candidate affidavit.

🔹 Top-Level Fields

{
  "candidate_name": "",
  "constituency": "",
  "party": "",
  "occupation": "",
  "income_details": {},
  "bank_accounts": [],
  "movable_assets": {},
  "immovable_assets": {},
  "criminal_cases": [],
  "notary_details": {}
}

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💰 Income Details

"income_details": {
  "self_income": "",
  "spouse_income": ""
}

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🏦 Bank Accounts

"bank_accounts": [
  {
    "bank": "",
    "account_number": "",
    "balance": "",
    "amount": ""
  }
]

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🚗 Movable Assets

"movable_assets": {
  "cash": "",
  "bank_deposits": "",
  "vehicles": "",
  "jewellery": "",
  "other_assets": ""
}

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🏠 Immovable Assets

Includes land, buildings, and other fixed properties declared in affidavits.

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⚖️ Criminal Cases

Contains information about declared criminal cases, including:

• Case status
• Court details
• Sections of law

Such disclosures are important for voter awareness and transparency in elections ([MyNeta][1]).

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🖋️ Notary Details

Information related to affidavit verification:

• Date of notarization
• Place
• Notary officer details

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🎯 Use Cases

• Election transparency analysis
• Political data analytics
• Criminal background studies
• Wealth distribution among candidates
• NLP tasks (Information Extraction, Summarization)
• Tamil + multilingual structured data modeling

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⚠️ Limitations

• Data is self-declared by candidates
• Possible inconsistencies or missing fields
• OCR/parsing errors (if extracted from PDFs)
• Financial values may not be standardized

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📜 Licensing & Usage

• Source data is publicly available from ECI
• Intended for research, transparency, and public awareness
• Users should validate data before critical use

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🙏 Acknowledgements

• Election Commission of India
• Public affidavit archive (affidavit.eci.gov.in)

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✍️ Citation

@dataset{tn_election_affidavit_2026,
  title={Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2026 Candidate Affidavit Dataset},
  author={HemanthThunder}
  year={2026},
  source={Election Commission of India},
  note={Structured extraction of candidate affidavit data}
}