{"id":38494,"date":"2026-01-30T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/bamboo-filing-cabinet-vietnam-elections-open-source-linked-datasets-site\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:27:07","slug":"bamboo-filing-cabinet-vietnam-elections-open-source-linked-datasets-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/bamboo-filing-cabinet-vietnam-elections-open-source-linked-datasets-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Filing Cabinet: Vietnam Elections (open, Source-linked Datasets + Site)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL;DR: Open, source-linked Vietnam election datasets (starting with NA15-2021) with reproducible pipelines + GitHub Pages site; seeking source hunters and devs.<\/p>\n

Hi all,<\/p>\n

I want to share Vietnam Elections<\/a>, a project I’ve been working on to make Vietnam election data more accessible, archived, and fully sourced.<\/p>\n

The code for both the site and the data is on GitHub<\/a>. The pipeline is provenance-first: raw sources \u2192 scripts \u2192 JSON exports, and every factual field links back to a source URL with retrieval timestamps. <\/p>\n

Data access: the exported datasets live in public\/data\/<\/code> within the repo.<\/p>\n

If anyone has been interested in this data before, I think you may have been stymied by the lack of English-language information, slow or buggy websites, and data soft-hidden behind PDFs.<\/p>\n

So far I’ve mapped out the 2021 National Assembly XV election<\/a> in anticipation of the coming 2026 Vietnamese legislative election<\/a>. Even with only one election, there are already a bunch of interesting stats, for example, did you know that in 2021:<\/p>\n

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  1. …the smallest gap between a winner and a loser in a constituency was only 197 votes, representing a 0.16% gap?<\/li>\n
  2. …8 people born in 1990 or later won a seat, with 7 of them being women?<\/li>\n
  3. …2 candidates only had middle school education?<\/li>\n
  4. …1 person won, but was not confirmed?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m looking for contributors or anyone interested in building this project as I want to map out all the elections in Vietnam’s history, primarily:<\/p>\n

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    1. Source hunters (no coding):<\/strong> help find official\/public source pages or PDFs (candidate lists, results tables, constituency\/unit docs) \u2014 even just one link helps.<\/li>\n
    2. Devs:<\/strong> help automate collection + parsing (HTML\/PDF \u2192 structured tables), validation, and reproducible builds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      For corrections or contributions, it would be best to start with either the GitHub Issues<\/a> or use the anonymous form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      You might ask, “what is this Bamboo Filing Cabinet?” It’s the umbrella GitHub organization<\/a> (org page here<\/a>) I created to store and make accessible Vietnam-related datasets. It’s aiming to be community-run, not affiliated with any government agency, and focuses on provenance-first, reproducible, neutral datasets with transparent change history. If you have ideas for other Vietnam-related datasets that would fit under this umbrella, please reach out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

      submitted by \/u\/thanhoangviet1996 <\/a>
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