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The Variance in Vote Shares in the Elections
There is a complication here right constellations in India okay. In India you have MLAs and MP's representing constellations and then districts which are administered by collectors or very civil servants. We don't know whether there are certain cost you see is urban or rural because that information is not a ruralYeah so it's not as simple as it seems right to distinguish what constituencies are quote unquote rural and urban areas or in rural andurban areas. luckily they are desegregated using desegregation information we can slowly aggregate them and make the difference.
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