Determine which electoral division contains the centroid from each of the Census polygons.

Using the electoral boundaries at the time of an election and the centroids from the SA1 polygons from a neighbouring Census, allocate each SA1 to the electoral division that contains its centroid.

allocate_electorate(
  centroids_ls,
  electorates_sf,
  census_year = NA,
  election_year = NA
)

Arguments

centroids_ls: list containing centroids as SpatialPoints and a dataframe with basic data on each polygon (e.g. name)
electorates_sf: shapefile with electoral boundaries
census_year: census year
election_year: election year

Value

data frame detailing which electoral division each Census polygon is allocated to

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Mapping each SA1 from the 2011 Census to the 2013 electoral boundaries
mapping_c11_e13 <- allocate_electorate(centroids_ls = centroids_sa1_2011, electorates_sf = sF_13, 
census_year = "2011", election_year = "2013")
}