Need for Elections

election procedure:

Features of democratic elections

Types of elections

Rigging: Fraud or malpreactises indulged by a party or a candidates to increase it votes. It includes stuffings ballot boxes by a few persons using the votes of others, recording multiple votes by same person and bribing or coercing polling officers to favour a candidate.

Booth capturing: Supporters or hired musclemen of a party or a candidate gain physical control of a polling booth, and cast false votes by threathing everyone or by preventing genuine veoters from reaching the polling booth.

Turnount: the percentage of eligible voters who cast their in an elections.

Incumbent: The current holders of political office. Usually the choice for the voters in the elections is between the incumbent party or candidate those who oppose them

Modle of conduct: A set of norms and guidlines to be followed by political parties and contesting candidates during election times

Constituency: Voters in a geographical area who elect a representativesto legislative bodies.

Election commision: The entire process of election in our country is conducted, controlled and supervised by an independant body called the election commision.

Elections A mechanism or procedure by which people choose their representatives at regular intervals

Important TERMS

Mind Brush-up points

Mid - term elections

BY- Elections

General elections