About Us

Why Election Mapping?

We believe that Democracy should have deep roots and sustainability in Pakistan. One of the important factors to sustain democracy is to involve majority of the Pakistani nation in the Electoral System. Pakistan ranks much lower in Elections turnout throughout history. To show this picture we have done mapping of how many of Pakistanis vote from each part of the country using a very interactive graph. The primary source of the data is from the Election Commission of Pakistan website. For details on the data please see this website section Data Sources

Why other Nations Vote more?

This Wikipedia article about Voters Turnout explains various reasons for higher voters turnout during elections.

  1. Voting is part of the society and culture in many countries.

    In Pakistan, we should do advocacy campaigns to make voting part of the culture and society.

  2. Ease of voting and adoption of technology

    has also made voting easier in the context of money and time. There are various modern ways to improve the voters participation in Elections. Election Commission of Pakistan should work in this direction.

  3. Higher voters turnout provides legitimacy to the Governments.

    With a higher voters turnout we can provide more legitimacy to our Polictical system.

Taking this map to next level

  1. Constituency wise voting turnout (depend on the availability of the map boundaries according to constituencies)
  2. District wise map of un-verified voters in Pakistan for 2011 Elections
  3. Compiling and Publishing elections data that can be analyzed and used further

Team

The team launched Pakistan's First crowdsourcing platform in disaster reporting and mapping in 2010. This is the continuation of the work in the mapping and reporting domain for advocacy.

The team is headed be Senior Fellow at TED Faisal Chohan

Data and Mapping issues

There may be some compilation or calculation errors in data (Actually there are few minor ones, because of inconsistencies in data, boundaries and changes in the Adminsitrative system of Pakistan). Please report all such errors to us and we will try to rectify these errors.

You can reach us at info at pakreport dot org