
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.





