-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...
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Local factors determine electoral outcomes in States -Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay Kumar, Shreyas Sardesai and Sandeep Shastri
-The Hindu While national leaders can provide support, the ground work needs to be done by local leaders with a mass base and sustained presence in local politics Even as the nation battles the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Assembly elections have been completed in four States (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal) and one Union Territory (Puducherry). Though citizens and governments came to be exposed to the debilitating impact...
More »Assembly elections 2021: Voter Turnout lower in 90% of seats compared to 2016 -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen and Naresh Singaravelu
-The Hindu Despite the fall, 80%-plus Voter Turnout was recorded in more than 60% of the seats in Assam and Puducherry Compared to the 2016 Assembly election, turnout decreased in 90% of the 530 seats in the four States where voting for the 2021 State polls took place on April 6. Nearly 86% of seats in Tamil Nadu, 95% in Kerala, 90% in Assam, and all the seats in Puducherry recorded lower turnout...
More »Supreme Court issues notice to Election Commission on 'discrepancies'
-The Hindu Petition says a study was done by them on discrepancy patterns found in ECI website and ‘My Voters Turnout App’. The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to respond to a petition filed by two NGOs seeking a probe into alleged discrepancies between Voter Turnout and the number of votes counted in 347 constituencies in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. “The lack of reasoned explanation by...
More »No ghost voters, says Election Commission
-The Hindu New Delhi: “The provisional Voter Turnout data, reported on the ECI website, is only the tentative number of voters and not the final numbers. Therefore, it is an incorrect inference to find ghost voters when there are none,” the poll panel said. The Election Commission on Saturday said there were no “ghost voters” in the Lok Sabha election, as reported in a section of the media based on the provisional...
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