[datameet] Polling stations

2014-01-09 Thread 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

Re: [datameet] Polling stations

2014-01-09 Thread 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 -

Re: [datameet] Polling stations

2014-01-09 Thread 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

Re: [datameet] Polling stations

2014-01-09 Thread Anand Chitipothu
Thanks Raphael. Anand On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Raphael Susewind m...@raphael-susewind.dewrote: 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