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The Effect of Nightlights on Rural Voting

I spent so in 2015 or 2014 I remember there was this research producer producing researcher named Rafael Soussren and he had aggregated you know data from polling youth level. We utilized the data for assembly constellencies to say whether a certain constellencies rural urban and makes a match that data with voting data in that constellency to tell whether rural voters were voting differently from other voters. thankfully our hypothesis was proven correct even though opposition did not win the elections they came close quite close it was one of the closer elections in Gujarat in a long time. The BJP was doing much the congress of the congress was doing much better than in urban areas some of the workshops the washer ranges

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