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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections -Rahul Verma

Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections -Rahul Verma

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published Published on Mar 13, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 14, 2022

-IndiaToday.in

More women voted for the BJP than men in all four states that the party won in the recently concluded Assembly elections, according to the data. Here's why.

The story of women voting in India has added one more puzzle for social scientists to decipher. In the past decade, the research largely focused on the increasing voter registration among women and their higher turnout rate at polling booths. The combined effect of these two developments has been that in many parts of the country, the electoral weight of women voters is higher than men. In addition to these, women voters have also been making distinct preferences in vote choice. In the past few years, we have seen the positive effect of this behind the re-election of many Chief Ministers Nitish Kumar, Mamata Banerjee, J Jayalalitha, Naveen Patnaik, among others.

So what role did women voters play in BJP’s victory in four states? The data indicates that more women seem to have voted for the BJP than men in all four states the party won; both the Axis My-India and Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey data confirm this pattern. While the margin of difference is in the range of 2-4 percentage points, the importance of this turnaround should not be discounted.

The BJP used to have a gender disadvantage with women before 2014, but the party managed to close this gap during the 2019 Lok Sabha election. In many states too, the party gained some advantage with women voters - the trend was very visible in the 2020 Bihar and 2021 Assam assembly elections.

Consider the more disaggregated data from the post-poll studies mentioned above. The difference between women voters who voted for the BJP and those who voted for the Samajwadi Party was in double digits. This means that SP was actively put in a disadvantageous position with its failure to appeal to women voters. At the same time, across all major caste-ethnic blocs in UP, women were more likely to vote for the BJP, indicating that women voters are perhaps making different political choices from the male members of their families.

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IndiaToday.in, 13 March, 2022, https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/story/why-more-women-voted-bjp-2022-elections-analysis-1924821-2022-03-13


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