The book “The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections”, written by Dr Prannoy Roy & Dorab B. Sopariwala and published in the year 2019 by Penguin Books, may, at first, seem odd to review in 2025, but it holds much contemporary relevance on a closer inspection. The book serves as a guide to navigating India’s most recent electoral results. The authors take the reader through a web of seemingly unrelated datasets to spin revealing images of electoral trends and insights. Accordingly, the rationale and method behind Dr Roy and Mr Sopariwala’s psephological analysis can be adopted to apply to the latest general election results to hear what stories its data can tell. At the end of the day, this book review is a refreshing politico-legal read to begin our Special Issue on Electoral Laws.