New Delhi, Nov. 17 -- For the first time, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday published the Index Cards for the recently held Bihar assembly elections and by-elections to eight assembly constituencies within 72 hours of the poll result declaration.

"Before the introduction of ECINET, the publication of Index Cards used to take several weeks, or even months, as the data used to be manually filled by the field officials," the EC said in an official statement.

The Index Card reports contain data across multiple dimensions, such as candidates, electors, votes polled, votes counted, party-wise and candidate-wise votes polled, etc.

The ECI has marked several firsts with the successful conduct of the Bihar assembly polls.

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