The Ballot
is a visual compendium of information about the world’s largest democracy.

On Independence Day 2013, The Ballot was launched with the purpose of being your fix of facts and figures you ought to know about India as the country was preparing for the General Elections in 2014. With regular updates, we brought you easily digestible yet relevant nuggets of information, which were presented as richly illustrated graphs and charts for your convenient perusal.

At this point in time, the 2014 General Elections have been conducted, and we hope that you found our work useful in making informed decisions regarding your franchise. The Ballot is now in archive mode, and no further updates will be made. Our visualization archive is available for perusal and use under a Creative Commons license, and we hope that it continues to be useful to people in some form.

The Ballot also had a presence on Facebook and on Twitter.