module data.elections

Short summary

module actuariat_python.data.elections

Various function to download data about French elections.

source on GitHub

Classes

class	truncated documentation
_HTMLToText

Functions

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_elections_vote_place_address_patterns_
elections_legislatives_bureau_vote	Retrieves data from Résultat des élections législatives françaises de 2012 au niveau bureau de vote. …
elections_legislatives_circonscription_geo	Retrieves data from Countours des circonscriptions des législatives. …
elections_presidentielles	Downloads the data for the French elections from data.gouv.fr.
elections_presidentielles_local_files	Returns the list of files included in this module about French elections.
elections_vote_place_address	Scrapes and extracts addresses for every vote place (bureau de vote in French).
elections_vote_places_geo	Retrieves data vote places (bureaux de vote in French) with geocodes.
html_to_text	Given a piece of HTML, return the plain text it contains. This handles entities and char refs, but not javascript and …
villes_geo	Retrieves data vote places (bureaux de vote in French) with geocodes.

Methods

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__init__
get_text
handle_charref
handle_data
handle_endtag
handle_entityref
handle_startendtag
handle_starttag

Documentation

Various function to download data about French elections.

source on GitHub

class actuariat_python.data.elections._HTMLToText

Bases : html.parser.HTMLParser

Initialize and reset this instance.

If convert_charrefs is True (the default), all character references are automatically converted to the corresponding Unicode characters.

__init__()

Initialize and reset this instance.

If convert_charrefs is True (the default), all character references are automatically converted to the corresponding Unicode characters.

actuariat_python.data.elections._elections_vote_place_address_patterns_()

actuariat_python.data.elections.elections_legislatives_bureau_vote(source=None, folder='.', fLOG=<function noLOG>)

Retrieves data from Résultat des élections législatives françaises de 2012 au niveau bureau de vote.

Paramètres

• source – should be None unless you want to use the backup plan (« xd »)

• folder – where to download

Renvoie

list of dataframe

Others sources:

• Résultats élections municipales 2014 par bureau de vote

• Elections 2015 - Découpage des bureaux de Vote

• Contours des cantons électoraux départementaux 2015

• Découpage électoral de la commune, pour les élections législatives (weird bizarre)

• Statistiques démographiques INSEE sur les nouvelles circonscriptions législatives de 2012

source on GitHub

actuariat_python.data.elections.elections_legislatives_circonscription_geo(source='xd', folder='.', fLOG=<function noLOG>)

Retrieves data from Countours des circonscriptions des législatives.

Paramètres

• source – should be None unless you want to use the backup plan (« xd »)

• folder – where to download

Renvoie

list of dataframe

source on GitHub

actuariat_python.data.elections.elections_presidentielles(url=None, local=False, agg=None)

Downloads the data for the French elections from data.gouv.fr.

Paramètres

• url – url (None for default value)

• local – prefer local data instead of remote

• agg – kind of aggregation desired (see below)

Renvoie

dictionaries of DataFrame (one entry for each round)

The default url comes from Elections présidentielle 2012 - Résultats. You can get more at Elections présidentielles 1965-2012.

If url is None, we pull some data from folder data/election.

Parameter agg:

• circ or None for no aggregation

• dep to aggregate per department

source on GitHub

actuariat_python.data.elections.elections_presidentielles_local_files(load=False)

Returns the list of files included in this module about French elections.

Paramètres

load – True: load the data

Renvoie

list of local files

If the data is loaded, the function returns a dictionary of dataframe, one per round.

source on GitHub

actuariat_python.data.elections.elections_vote_place_address(folder='.', hide_warning=False, fLOG=<function noLOG>)

Scrapes and extracts addresses for every vote place (bureau de vote in French).

Paramètres

• folder – where to download the scraped pages

• hide_warnings – hide warnings

• fLOG – logging function

Renvoie

dictionary

The function does not retrieve everything due to the irregular format. Sometimes, the city is missing or written above.

source on GitHub

actuariat_python.data.elections.elections_vote_places_geo(source='xd', folder='.', fLOG=<function noLOG>)

Retrieves data vote places (bureaux de vote in French) with geocodes.

Paramètres

• source – should be None unless you want to use the backup plan (« xd »)

• folder – where to download

• fLOG – logging function

Renvoie

list of dataframe

source on GitHub

actuariat_python.data.elections.html_to_text(html)

Given a piece of HTML, return the plain text it contains. This handles entities and char refs, but not javascript and stylesheets.

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actuariat_python.data.elections.villes_geo(folder='.', as_df=False, fLOG=<function noLOG>)

Retrieves data vote places (bureaux de vote in French) with geocodes.

Paramètres

• folder – where to download

• as_df – return as a dataframe

• fLOG – logging function

Renvoie

list of dataframe

source on GitHub