form20 election data

[Apoorva Lal]

Hi all - non-COVID query for once. I'm a PhD student working on political economy and applied econometrics.

I'm working on a couple of projects that would greatly benefit from booth-level election returns, and was wondering if anyone had archived form20 data from the official ECI site, which points to different states' CEOs [https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/link-to-form-20/].

It'd be great to build on what's available in Raphael Susewind's fantastic archive https://github.com/raphael-susewind/india-religion-politics, which includes returns for a few rounds for UP and 1 for Gujarat iirc]. I'm interested in Vidhan sabha results for Andhra / Telangana for 2014 for a project, but the ECI link for Vidhan Sabha 2014 for Andhra and Telangana are both broken, and I've had no luck with archive.org. If anyone has the pdfs for the election years I'm looking for, I'd really appreciate any pointers, and I also welcome any interest in pooling efforts to digitise more election-state-years from the pdfs. which are of varying quality and will probably require a decent amount of work [and I will likely have to code from scratch, since I don't speak good enough perl to adapt Raphael's code].

Best,

Apoorva

[rigved shenai]

Check out this link. - https://ceoandhra.nic.in/GE_2014/GeneralElections_2014.html
I do extensive work on election data visualization including booth level voting patterns, maps etc. 
Connect with me at rigved...@prodigi.in for any further queries.