Polling stations

[Anand Chitipothu]

Hi,

I'm looking for information like, name, constituency, number of voters etc. of all polling stations in India. Has someone already scrapped this data?

The names of the polling stations is available at:

http://www.eci-polldaymonitoring.nic.in/psl/default.aspx

Are there any other places where this information is available?

Anand

[Raphael Susewind]

Hey Anand,

I have done quite a bit of work on this. One problem is, there are two
datasets - one cleaned up, one preliminary:

http://www.eci-polldaymonitoring.nic.in/psl/default.aspx
http://www.eci-polldaymonitoring.nic.in/psleci/default.aspx

For the preliminary data for UP, have a look at my website here:
http://data.raphael-susewind.de/content/gis-shapefiles

For all-India data, I have the preliminary raw point data, but can't
make up my mind whether I should clean it up and make it available now,
or hope that the EC themselves will clean it up further in the current
run-up to the general elections, in which case I could save myself the
trouble and just wait a few months longer.

Also, I am wary of the polling booth ID codes at the moment; for UP, for
instance, they changed slightly with the current roll revision - booth
IDs from 2011-13 are not necessarily the same as those in 2014.
Currently, my website operates with 2011-13 IDs, and I intend to wait a
little longer until I upgrade to 2014 IDs...

And nope, there are no other places where this data is available to my
knowledge (unless you know somebody deep inside the NIC or EC),

Best,
Raphael

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[Raphael Susewind]

Dear Anand,

I should probably first read properly then respond... If you are not
after the GIS data per se, you should be able to get the data in either

a) the Form 20 returns of past elections on each CEO site

b) [perhaps more useful] the "Download Electoral Roll as PDF" databases
of each CEO - you don't have to scrape the actual PDFs but could just
use the information in the dropdown lists they usually use

Best,
Raphael

On 09.01.2014 09:08, Anand Chitipothu wrote:

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Raphael Susewind <ma...@raphael-susewind.de> wrote:

Dear Anand,

I should probably first read properly then respond... If you are not
after the GIS data per se, you should be able to get the data in either

Dear  Raphael, 

Thanks for your inputs. Yes, i'm not looking for GIS data. As of now, I just want the list of polling stations and their constituencies. More information like, number of voters, polling percentage in last elections etc. will be valuable too.

a) the Form 20 returns of past elections on each CEO site

b) [perhaps more useful] the "Download Electoral Roll as PDF" databases
of each CEO - you don't have to scrape the actual PDFs but could just
use the information in the dropdown lists they usually use

I don't mind scraping a website or two, but doing that for every state is too much of work as each website is completely different.

If you have id, name and constituency for all polling booths, I would love to have a look at it. Would you mind sharing it?

Anand

[Anand Chitipothu]

Thanks Raphael.

Anand

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Raphael Susewind <ma...@raphael-susewind.de> wrote:

Dear Anand,

I don't mind sharing, but the problem is currently that some states are
on 2014 IDs and some on 2013 IDs (or so it seems). I try to attach the
file with state,constituency,constituency_name,booth,station_name - lets
hope googlegroups allows 9 MB attachments...

Best,
Raphael

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[Thejesh GN]

Its not a bad idea to upload to archive.org and share the link.

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[Raphael Susewind]

Dear Anand,

I don't mind sharing at all, have sent you a private email (attachment
is too long for the googlegroup),

Best,
Raphael

On 09.01.2014 10:48, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
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