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Original Publish Date: 09 August, 2020

Updated on: 27 April, 2021

We will be using the dynasties data for last few elections from UP in this post.

GE

Basic summary of the data

Type of election - General elections

State - Uttar Pradesh

Year - 2009:20019

at 5% percentage vote share

  • Number of observations - 787

  • Average vote share percentage - 32%

  • Distribution of the positions -

## 
##    1    2    3 
## 0.36 0.36 0.28
  • Proportion of dynasts in the data - 0.36

Dynasts

Proportion of positions won by dynast candidates

position Dynast
1 0.42
2 0.31
3 0.36

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.41 0.30 0.29
Non-Dynast 0.33 0.39 0.28

Turncoats

Turncoats proportion wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_turncoat
Dynast 0.13
Non-Dynast 0.10

by posiiton

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.15 0.15 0.10
Non-Dynast 0.11 0.10 0.08

Same party

Party retention wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_same_party
Dynast 0.76
Non-Dynast 0.75

Position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.78 0.74 0.73
Non-Dynast 0.75 0.71 0.80

Incumbents

Proportion of incumbents wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_incumbent
Dynast 0.35
Non-Dynast 0.17

By position

dynast 2009 2014 2019
Dynast 0.36 0.35 0.34
Non-Dynast 0.16 0.10 0.27

Recontest

Proportion of re-contestants wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_recontest
Dynast 0.50
Non-Dynast 0.36

Number of terms

Number of terms wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_no_terms
Dynast 1.54
Non-Dynast 0.87

By posiiton

dynast 2009 2014 2019
Dynast 1.62 1.40 1.61
Non-Dynast 0.79 0.77 1.08

Constituency type

Constituency type wrt Politicians identity

dynast GEN SC
Dynast 0.86 0.14
Non-Dynast 0.76 0.24

By position

year dynast GEN SC
2009 Dynast 0.88 0.12
2009 Non-Dynast 0.74 0.26
2014 Dynast 0.87 0.13
2014 Non-Dynast 0.75 0.25
2019 Dynast 0.82 0.18
2019 Non-Dynast 0.80 0.20

AE

Basic summary of the data

Type of election - Assembly elections

State - Uttar Pradesh

at 5% percentage vote share

  • Number of observations - 2960

  • Average vote share percentage - 28.74

  • Distribution of the positions -

## 
##    1    2    3 
## 0.34 0.34 0.33
  • Proportion of dynasts - 0.18

Dynasts

Proportion of positions won by dynast candidates

position Dynast
1 0.21
2 0.20
3 0.13

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.39 0.37 0.24
Non-Dynast 0.32 0.33 0.35

Turncoat

Turncoats proportion wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_turncoat
Dynast 0.14
Non-Dynast 0.12

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.13 0.15 0.13
Non-Dynast 0.14 0.11 0.12

Same Party

Party retention wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_same_party
Dynast 0.68
Non-Dynast 0.70

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.72 0.68 0.59
Non-Dynast 0.70 0.77 0.62

Incumbency

Proportion of incumbents wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_incumbent
Dynast 0.23
Non-Dynast 0.16

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.27 0.25 0.12
Non-Dynast 0.18 0.22 0.09

Recontest

Proportion of re-contestants wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_recontest
Dynast 0.44
Non-Dynast 0.36

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 0.47 0.46 0.35
Non-Dynast 0.41 0.41 0.27

Number of terms

Number of terms wrt Politicians identity

dynast mean_no_terms
Dynast 1.10
Non-Dynast 0.86

By position

dynast 1 2 3
Dynast 1.88 0.69 0.46
Non-Dynast 1.63 0.59 0.40

Constituency type

Constituency type wrt Politicians identity

dynast GEN SC
Dynast 0.86 0.14
Non-Dynast 0.77 0.23

By position

position dynast GEN SC
1 Dynast 0.86 0.14
1 Non-Dynast 0.77 0.23
2 Dynast 0.87 0.13
2 Non-Dynast 0.77 0.23
3 Dynast 0.88 0.12
3 Non-Dynast 0.78 0.22