Speed Matters – Another look at Afghan Elections

Preliminary Results for the Wolesi Jirga Elections are now up.

NDI and Development Seed have continued their collaboration (see here) to present electoral datasets in a format that is more accessible to citizens, analysts, journalists, and policymakers.

Using new data browsing technology (node.js), maps load faster, and site components can be navigated more efficiently.

The information represents preliminary results as announced by the Independent Elections Commission on October 20, 2010.

Special data highlighted in this version include:

• Complaints from the Electoral Complaints Commission as of early October
• Estimated voter counts from the IEC in both 2010 and 2009
• Candidates' English names, photos, and party affiliation from the IEC's final list of candidates
• Candidate gender and incumbency status as compiled by NDI
• Security data provided by iMMAP

Happy digging!