Articles by Nishant Ranjan
Number Theory: How socially representative is Bihar’s candidature?
The data shows that the NDA has a bigger share of candidates from upper castes (Rajput, Bhumihar, Kayasth and Brahmin) and EBCs than the INDIA block.
Published on Apr 25, 2024 02:16 PM IST
Number Theory: What is at stake in today's voting?
After Friday’s polling, the casting of votes will have concluded in almost one-fifth of India’s 543 PCs.
Published on Apr 19, 2024 09:04 AM IST
Lok Sabha elections: What does the NDA-INDIA contest look like in Phase 1?
As far as the parties in the INDIA bloc are concerned, they have put up 114 candidates in the 102 PCs which are going to polls in this phase.
Updated on Apr 19, 2024 07:10 AM IST
Nishant Ranjan, New Delhi
Number Theory: How the electorate has changed over the years
This is the first of a two-part data journalism series on voters in 2024 general elections. The 2nd part will look at the economic status of first-time voters.
Published on Apr 17, 2024 10:13 AM IST
Number Theory: How the electoral math in Punjab has changed since 2019
What has made the political situation even more complicated is that the BJP and the SAD have parted ways
Published on Apr 15, 2024 08:59 AM IST
Number Theory: Four questions which will define the 2024 elections
Here are four charts that describe the four questions the results of this election will answer.
Updated on Mar 17, 2024 06:35 AM IST
Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?
Because the BJP has a big regional skew in its performance, this is an important consideration for the BJP’s electoral math in the 2024 elections.
Updated on Mar 17, 2024 06:36 AM IST
Four questions that will define the 2024 elections
Will the BJP be able to meet its seat target, will the Congress improve its tally — these are among the key questions the LS elections could answer
Updated on Mar 17, 2024 05:56 AM IST
Number Theory: What is the AAP’s core politics?
The AAP’s decision to have an alliance with the Congress in Delhi will make it relatively immune to the voter flight towards the Congress
Published on Mar 13, 2024 07:08 PM IST
Number Theory: What will a BJP-BJD alliance mean in Odisha?
The BJD is perhaps the only regional political party in a major Indian state where the party's leadership will not be passed on to someone within the family
Updated on Mar 08, 2024 09:18 PM IST
Number Theory: Political and social battles that women in India fight
Women are still forced to shoulder a disproportionate share of household responsibilities. This unfair burden doesn't disappear with education or rise in income
Published on Mar 08, 2024 09:01 AM IST
The limits of anti-Congress politics
The first non-Congress government at the Centre was sworn in soon after Emergency, in 1977. It lasted less than three years. What followed was a rather misleading triumph for the Congress, however. The 1984 election would, in fact, mark the end of single-party dominance for a long time in India.
Updated on Apr 05, 2024 01:37 PM IST
The making and unmaking of Indira Gandhi
Let three charts narrate the story of one of the most influential politicans in India's modern history.
Updated on Apr 05, 2024 01:35 PM IST
Number Theory: What explains BJP’s love for Charan Singh?
Charan Singh began his political career in the Congress party and only parted ways with it after the 1967 elections when he was not made the chief minister.
Published on Feb 21, 2024 01:42 PM IST
Number Theory: Can the BJP win 370 seats in Lok Sabha polls?
One way to answer this question is to look at how much the BJP will have to gain compared to previous elections to achieve this target.
Updated on Feb 07, 2024 12:32 AM IST
Number Theory: Will Hemant Soren’s ST pitch aid JMM prospects?
The BJP performed much better than the JMM even in ST-reserved Lok Sabha constituencies during the 2019 general elections
Updated on Feb 06, 2024 07:39 AM IST
Number Theory: Will the BSP play a role in this year's elections?
With the BJP becoming a dominant party, a lot of the non-SC support, and perhaps even non-Jatav SC support the BSP enjoyed, has gone back to the BJP
Updated on Jan 16, 2024 08:34 AM IST
Number Theory: A look at urban migration amid language riots in India
Is fear of migrants taking over the most lucrative segments of Karnataka’s economy fuelling such violence in India’s biggest urban centres?
Updated on Jan 05, 2024 09:39 AM IST
Number Theory: 4 charts that capture 2024’s biggest political questions
The BJP’s first full-term government at the Centre was formed after the 1999 elections. That victory came on the back of a broad-based alliance.
Published on Jan 01, 2024 10:25 AM IST
Number Theory: Are state poll verdicts becoming clearer now?
Twenty-seven of 30 state elections (90%) from 2019 to 2023 ended in a clear verdict
Updated on Dec 21, 2023 01:14 AM IST
Nishant Ranjan, New Delhi
Number Theory: Decoding BJP’s improved showing in state elections
The BJP’s record in the last two Lok Sabha elections continues to be better than its performance in state elections in most cases
Updated on Dec 19, 2023 01:11 AM IST
Number Theory: Why is 2023 different from 2018? And what of 2024?
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has won elections in three out of the four states for which results were declared on Sunday.
Published on Dec 04, 2023 07:44 AM IST
Assembly polls: The inability to retain mandate haunts Congress
The Congress’s loss in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh this time is symptomatic of a bigger crisis facing the party.
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 02:12 AM IST
Decoding the mechanics of the Congress win in Telangana
BRS has lost almost ten percentage points in vote share between 2018 and 2023 which exactly how much Congress has gained in the state between the two elections.
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 02:20 AM IST
Number Theory: Results may go beyond states that went to polls
The results of the assembly elections in the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana will be announced today
Published on Dec 03, 2023 07:20 AM IST
Number Theory: Will Telangana elect BRS for the third time?
An HT analysis of past results shows that any opposition party will have to really outperform its previous best
Updated on Nov 30, 2023 07:53 AM IST
Number Theory: The importance of Scheduled Tribe vote for the BJP
Here are the some charts that explain the importance of the ST outreach by the Prime Minister
Published on Nov 29, 2023 07:55 AM IST
Rajasthan’s electoral contest explained
A look at some charts that explain the nature of the electoral battle taking place on November 25
Published on Nov 24, 2023 09:14 PM IST
Number Theory: The largest of the five-phase poll cycle
What is at stake in the election today?
Published on Nov 17, 2023 10:23 AM IST