Elections In India: An Overview

Women Voters in Indian Elections: Changing Trends and Emerging Patterns

A set of post-poll surveys were conducted in Goa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand by Lokniti. Click here to know more about the surveys and to read our survey-based analysis of the election results published in The Hindu.

Indian Youth: Aspirations and Vision for the Future is a collaborative study of Lokniti, a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

A set of post-poll surveys were conducted in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal by the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Click here to read our survey based analysis.

An election-eve survey was conducted in Delhi by Lokniti during the final week of campaigning for the 2020 Delhi assembly elections. Read our survey-based analysis of how Delhi voted in the elections.

Since the mid-1990s, Lokniti has conducted election studies during all national elections and several state elections in India. Our data unit holdings constitute one of the largest archives of survey data on voter behaviour and attitudes.

Even as Lokniti's core activity revolves around elections, over the years it has also conducted a series of public opinion studies on a wide range of topics particularly those that deal with specific social issues and segments.

Lokniti-CSDS designed and analysed a rural survey conducted by Gaon Connection in 23 States and UTs to find out how lives and livelihoods in villages coped during the Covid-induced lockdown.

Politics and Society between Elections (2017-2019) is a three year research collaboration between Azim Premji University’s Centre for Regional Political Economy and Lokniti (CSDS).Click to find out more about the Study

Status of Policing in India Report .Click to find out more about the study.

National Election Study . Click to find out more about the study.