Sri Lankan Presidential Election Insights from 2005–2015

Leyon
Leyon
Nov 2 · 2 min read

Given the heat of 2019 presidential elections in Sri Lanka I felt that it would be handy for anyone interested to observe what has been taking place in the past elections. The search for an organised data set was a futile effort, as each data-set available in the public domain was unstructured and required a heavy cleansing process. Yet once structured and laid out for comparison it is mind blowing to see voting patterns such as majorities, minorities and interestingly even percentages of non- voters. The data in this exercise has been sourced from the Election Commission of Sri Lanka and then organised by using a couple of data extraction, wrangling and analytics tools. I’ll spare you from that tedious process for the moment.

Voilà !! Click the link below to check what took place in 2005, 2010 & 2015 in the presidential elections. Oh! do note that I have classified the political party’s into four broad categories i.e. Blues-PA, Greens-UNP, Others, Not-Voted. With a bit of intuition you can comprehend this. ;)

Link to the Power BI Report

This dashboard is built on Microsoft Power BI therefore it’s interactive and hence feel free to click, drill or expand the visuals.


Screenshots from the dashboard

Controls on each page are indicated in red.

Image #1 This page provides a high level overview of the main contributors to the variances year on year.
Images #2 This page depicts a detail view of the how districts and electorates voted in the three years.
Images #3 This page depicts a detail view of the how districts and electorates voted in the three years broken down by party.
Images #4 This page provides the variances for each party broken down by electorate.
Image #5 A spacial view of the electorates with the winning party represented by the assigned color to the party.

Leyon

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Leyon

Senior Investment/Finance Analyst and a data modeling enthusiast.

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