{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "manipur-2007-2012-winner-party-source-acceptance-v1",
  "decidedAt": "2026-10-22",
  "decision": "accepted-for-documentary-winner-party-replay-input",
  "decisionType": "Research source-acceptance finding; not an official territorial certification",
  "acceptedUnit": "The explicitly printed Assembly constituency number in each original general-election register",
  "sourceJoinAccepted": true,
  "winnerPartyInputAccepted": true,
  "completeTerritorialExtentAudit": false,
  "certifiedGISCrosswalk": false,
  "benchmarkReleased": false,
  "prospectiveForecastValidated": false,
  "historicalPublicationVersionVerified": false,
  "lineageSha256": "5cd48a8ec545d2b7669f529f927546fbabfac8673b1e92aeea321048255da0cc",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "general-register-2007",
      "url": "https://ceomanipur.nic.in/AnnualReport/2006-2007_Annual%20Administrative%20Report.pdf",
      "sha256": "c31a6f87e2ef00ce50749fcd6fee437e59b1807501344410918df91bda81f25e",
      "pages": [
        13,
        14
      ],
      "role": "Original general-election winner-party input; dual-seat entries preserved and June replacements excluded."
    },
    {
      "id": "statistical-report-2012",
      "url": "https://ceomanipur.nic.in/StatisticalReport/AssemblyElection/statistical_report_2012.pdf",
      "sha256": "7b48c17057178dbcb67a568eca761f37849ac89f07c6a5ddf18efbcdda125328",
      "pages": [
        2,
        8,
        30,
        31,
        33,
        34
      ],
      "role": "Contemporaneous operational AC comparison, reservation profile and original elected-member register; no turnout values promoted."
    },
    {
      "id": "ero-handbook-2018",
      "url": "https://ceogoa.nic.in/pdf/ECIH/Electoral%20Registration%20Officer%20Handbook.pdf",
      "sha256": "252d4335524945ee37e77e098538247f547e90d9e1f40ebc1bfd8f1d436d86a3",
      "pages": [
        108
      ],
      "role": "Later official legal reprint: section 8(1)(b) expressly incorporates the 1976 framework for Manipur in the 2008 consolidation. Used for compatibility research, never an earlier-election predictive feature."
    },
    {
      "id": "eci-pib-schedule-2009",
      "url": "https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?lang=2&reg=48&relid=48192",
      "sha256": "b190e78bb5f6fb25d6e6d8d7fa89e98a5afc6cf29db1efb13810a1a14c14e8de",
      "pages": [],
      "role": "Dated ECI operational exclusion context in paragraph 8."
    },
    {
      "id": "eci-pib-seats-2009",
      "url": "https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?lang=2&reg=48&relid=48199",
      "sha256": "96175c8dd3b0a660ee1c1211b104dca86c00506659cc54874b8a551d57ee5f9a",
      "pages": [],
      "role": "Parliamentary count-table corroboration only; not Assembly extent proof."
    },
    {
      "id": "ceo-candidate-handbook-2019",
      "url": "https://www.ceomanipur.nic.in/resources/handbook/HANDBOOK_FOR_CANDIDATE%2C_FEB_2019.pdf",
      "sha256": "805dd531877ac85ef1a678ce64981d20121c72e5a94de706a2b6d60eca0cb2df",
      "pages": [
        24
      ],
      "role": "Later official guidance corroborating the exception and corrected-order requirement; excluded from earlier-election predictive features."
    }
  ],
  "basis": [
    "The 2018 official legal reprint expressly connects Manipur to the 1976 framework in the 2008 consolidation; the 2009 ECI schedule documents the exception to the new delimitation exercise.",
    "The 2012 CEO report itself places Assembly 2007 and Assembly 2012 observations under the same sixty AC numbers in a contemporaneous comparison table on PDF pages 30–31.",
    "The original elected-member lists supply all sixty AC numbers and matching reservation categories: forty General, one SC and nineteen ST. Two register name variants remain literal and are not resolved through fuzzy aliases.",
    "Taken together, the source chain supports a documentary same-AC join for descriptive winner-party code replays. Names and counts are corroboration, not the sole basis of the finding."
  ],
  "conditions": [
    "Use original general-election party codes and seat entries, not current memberships, June 2007 replacements or inferred candidate continuity.",
    "Compare exact historical party codes without merger/alliance aliases. Independent candidates are not a shared party or a persistent candidate identity.",
    "Define common and full-eligibility denominators before scoring; do not select exclusions after observing errors.",
    "Use later documents only as transparent retrospective comparability evidence, not predictive inputs available before 2012.",
    "Keep all six incomplete Form 20 tables and thirteen candidate-name differences unresolved. Winner-party input acceptance does not repair them."
  ],
  "remainingLimits": [
    "The full original extent schedule and every possible corrected order have not been independently compared seat by seat. This is not certified territorial equality or a GIS survey.",
    "The 2012 comparison table is reviewed for its heading and AC structure only; its turnout values and denominator conventions are not validated here.",
    "Original historical online publication-version availability remains unverified.",
    "No new score has been computed or released by this decision. No calibration, 2027 favourites or probabilities are approved."
  ]
}