0 and -1 votes in GE dataset need to be fixed

[hangal]

GE dataset

1. RINCHIN KHANDU KHIMRE Arunachal, AC 1 in 1977 has 0 votes, but has position 1.
2. Y.B.R.CHAVAN Maha AC 22 1963 has -1 votes
3. D.K.BHANDARI(W) Sikkim AC 1 1985 has -1 votes

Were these uncontested? Does the code book specify whether uncontested should be 0, -1 or something else?

@gilkumar

[gilkumar]

If there are no other candidates, we consider them uncontested. We should have a way to identify them. Maybe just a note in the code book: “if position = 1 and votes = 0, means uncontested”.

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On 04-Nov-2018, at 2:39 PM, hangal notifications@github.com wrote:

GE dataset

RINCHIN KHANDU KHIMRE Arunachal, AC 1 in 1977 has 0 votes, but has position 1. Y.B.R.CHAVAN Maha AC 22 1963 has -1 votes D.K.BHANDARI(W) Sikkim AC 1 1985 has -1 votes Were these uncontested? Does the code book specify whether uncontested should be 0, -1 or something else?

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[mohitkharb]

all the cases in GE where position ==1 and votes <= 0 have only 1 contesting candidates. -1 votes were given in bypolls sheet shared by eci for uncontested constituencies. Updated in GE candidates_electoral_info.csv file, ( commit 7643776ec1)

[hangal]

5 rows also have NA in Votes field. What are these? @mohitkharb @gilkumar

[hangal]

@mohitkharb how do we capture uncontested? Votes = 0 is not a good way because a real contestant could get 0 votes. Maybe -1? Codebook needs to be updated in any case.