Election Result Prediction Using Twitter Sentiments Analysis

Democracy is the form of government where people have the right to choose their leaders. In our country, India, elections are held periodically to choose their political leader. Nowadays, people like to know beforehand that who is going to win the elections. They predict results based on news, their discussions and online platforms. Online sites such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp have become a trend these days. Anyone with internet connection has access to these social sites. The views, news and discussions available on these platforms help in predicting the results beforehand. These are the platforms to share ones views' on an online junction. Twitter is one such platform which becomes popular during any event in our country. Anything that is news becomes a trend on twitter. People share their views, hatred, campaigns towards any political party, figure or leader. It is very useful to predict electoral results before the exit poll results. Therefore, this work analyzes tweets collected from twitter and predicts election results by performing sentimental analysis on them.