Bill for Compulsory Voting
Published By: Center for Policy Reasearch | Published Date: December, 27 , 2014An analysis of electoral data in local elections shows that rural local bodies have had higher turnouts than their urban counterparts in almost all states of India. Data from 2009-13 of city corporation elections in major cities reveal that the turnout has been low across states . Taking six megacities as a sample, we find that the turnouts in the city corporations average around 50%, while the average turnout for national elections (1952-2014) has been 60%. It is, thus, a fact that turnouts in the urban
local body elections are lower than the elections to national, state and rural local bodies.
Author(s): Bhanu Joshi | Posted on: May 09, 2016 | Views()