electionwatch.et
Data on Ethiopia’s 7th General Election.
An independent open-data civic project making Ethiopia's 7th General Election information publicly accessible, covering candidate lists, polling station locations, party debate transcripts, and ballot symbols, through a static website at electionwatch.et.
This is an independent civic project that collects and publishes open data about Ethiopia's 7th General Election. All the source material comes from the National Election Board of Ethiopia, and the goal is to make that information easier for the public to access and explore through a website at electionwatch.et.
The repository holds four types of data. The transcripts folder contains official party debate recordings that have been turned into text and then analyzed to extract each party's stated positions, with references back to specific moments in the source video. The candidates folder holds the full lists of candidates for the House of People's Representatives and the Regional Councils, parsed from the election board's PDF documents. The polling stations folder maps every registered voting location, including GPS coordinates where the board has published them. A separate symbols folder links each political party to the ballot symbol assigned to it.
The website is built with Astro, a static site framework. Each data pipeline converts its source material into JSON files that the website reads directly, so the site does not need to do any heavy processing when someone visits a page. The repository includes instructions for running the site locally and contributing corrections or new data through GitHub issues.
The project is not affiliated with the Ethiopian government, the election board, or any political party. It is an unofficial open-source effort providing the data as-is for informational purposes.
Where it fits
- Look up candidates running for parliament or regional councils in Ethiopia's 7th General Election.
- Find the location of any registered polling station, including GPS coordinates.
- Explore each political party's stated positions drawn from official debate transcripts.
- Identify which ballot symbol belongs to each political party on the election ballot.