Election

Reading Time: 3 mins What happens if a constituency has a large number of candidates? Do the votes get split, with the winner winning with a lower margin? For example, if there are several hundreds of candidates like at […]

Reading Time: 4 mins A lot has changed in the 60+ years since our first elections. To begin with, the number of voters has gone up almost consistently, year on year – which is to be expected given population

Reading Time: 4 mins The Association for Democratic Reforms has analysed the affidavits of around 3,300 candidates so far, and tabulated their assets. Here’s a glimpse of the net assets of all candidates. The size of each box represents

Reading Time: 2 mins If there’s an award for consistency, there’s only one constituency that would win that award: Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh.  In every single election since India’s independence, the constituency has voted for the Indian National Congress.

Reading Time: 2 mins 2009 was a fairly unremarkable year in terms of the number of candidates that stood for elections. Chennai South fielded 43 candidates, and like in 2004, had the highest number of candidates. The 2004, 1999,