Hi Raphael, Thanks for your prompt answer. While there is not any official list, I am told that the EC gives the percentage of urban population in each constituency. I couldn't find it in their web site though.
As for the method you suggest, I just don't have the technical skills to pull that off. Thanks and regards Ravi On 13 May 2014 14:04, Raphael Susewind <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ravi, > > there are various options here, depending on what you want. > > I am not aware of an official list of rural/urban constituencies as > such. But booths are classified as either urban or rural, at least on > the electoral rolls, and probably elsewhere, too. This could be used in > a simple counting game to see where more than a certain threshold of the > electorate votes in urban areas according to the official ECI definition. > > If you are less interested in the official definition, you could try a > GIS-based alternative and overlay the polling booth point layer > (http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065) with the MODIS rural/urban > polygon by NaturalEarth, which is quite accurate in terms of habitation > pattern irrespective of their official designation > ( > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-urban-areas/ > ). > > Best, > Raphael > > On 13.05.2014 10:08, Ravi Krishnan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have a list of urban constituencies - defined here as those > > with over 75% urban population? > > > > Thanks and regards > > > > -- > > Ravi Krishnan > > > > Mint > > Tower 3, 9th Floor, India Bulls Finance Centre, > > Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road (W), > > Mumbai - 400 013 > > Ph:+91-22-6613 4000/4001 > > Mob: +91-97691-72938 > > > > -- > > For more details about this list > > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "datameet" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Raphael Susewind | BGHS Bielefeld University, CSASP University of Oxford > Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany > Papers & Blog | http://www.raphael-susewind.de > > Please do consider http://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id A5ED49AE) > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Ravi Krishnan Mint Tower 3, 9th Floor, India Bulls Finance Centre, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road (W), Mumbai - 400 013 Ph:+91-22-6613 4000/4001 Mob: +91-97691-72938 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
