Parliamentary Constituency data of India

[Anmol Gupta]

Hi everyone,

Wanted to ask if anyone knew how to obtain the parliamentary constituency data of a particular location from its latitude and longitude in Excel. Any tutorial would help. 

Also, would anyone have shapefiles of updated parliamentary constituencies for the 2024 election? The most recent shapefiles I could find are from 2014 and don't account for delimitation of regions like J&K.

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Anmol

[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Anmol,

Datameet's maps repo has PC boundaries as of 2019, and I don't know about changes since then (if anyone knows, pls tell):
https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/parliamentary-constituencies

How to obtain from latitude-longitude: Sharing a way to do in QGIS, there's other ways in python etc.

In any case, first step would be to save that excel to CSV format.

QGIS: Layer > Add Layer > Delimited text layer > load the csv

Drag-drop the parliamentary constituencies shapefile onto the map, will be added come as another layer of polygons.
Processing Toolbox > Join Attributes by Location
Choose the point layer at top, the polygon layer at bottom, and check "are within" box in middle.

Run it, and after that the points layer will be having the columns from PC layer, value being the constituency they're in.

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