About Us

Elections are a complicated, messy business, particularly in Pakistan where every 5 years over 40 million citizens cast their votes in a single day to elect representatives from over a dozen major political parties. The entire exercise is managed and orchestrated by around 200,000 election officers and is monitored closely by several international and local observers. It is also analyzed and reported on by an increasing lineup of news channels. Despite all this coverage, voters participation in and understanding of the electoral process remains abysmal. Pakistan historically has had one of the lowest election turnouts among modern democracies, and many of the past elections have been plagued by allegations of fraud and rigging.

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It is in this backdrop that we're creating this website as a forum for understanding and analyzing Pakistan's elections through a data driven approach that is free of political punditry or ideological narratives, and instead allows the data to do the talking. Our goal is to collect and curate meaningful data on elections in Pakistan, clean it up, and then use statistical and data science techniques to uncover interesting insights that will be of value to the reader. Our desire to use data analysis to educate our readers is inspired in part by the rise of data journalism websites like FiveThirtyEight, The Upshot, Vox, and others in the West. These websites have helped engage and inform voters in those countries at a deeper level and have also demonstrated the predictive power of election data. We hope to bring that level of high quality analysis, rigor, and sophistication to the discourse around Pakistani elections and play our part in making the electoral exercise more transparent and fair in this country. 

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