We have 48,412 files for 2018, 46,552 files for 2017, 46,550 for 2016, and 46,551 for 2015.
For files that we couldn't fetch (that end in a 404), the filename column in the respective CSV (links below) has a NULL. For 2017, we were able to fetch all the files. For 2015 and 2018, we couldn't fetch one file each. And for 2016, we couldn't fetch two files.
For each of the years 2015--2018, we wrote a python script (the scripts don't differ by much) that did two things:
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Created a CSV file (encoded in UTF-8) with the following columns:
district_no, district_name, ac_no, ac_name, part_no, polling_station_name, filename. The filename for files that 404 are missing. -
Downloaded all the PDFs to a local folder
karnataka_20XX
Links to the scripts:
- karnataka_2018.py iterates through the 2018 final electoral rolls posted at http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/FinalRoll-2018/Dist_List.aspx
- karnataka_2017.py iterates over the 2017 final electoral rolls posted at http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/FinalRoll-2017/
- karnataka_2016.py iterates over the 2016 final electoral rolls posted at http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/FinalRoll_2016/
- karnataka_2015.py iterates over the 2015 final electoral rolls posted at http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/FinalRoll_2015/
Links to the CSVs:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python karnataka_2018.py