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- Presents a rigorous examination of data from every Lok Sabha general election between 1962 and 2014
- Reviews the election result for each candidate and for all constituencies
- Discusses the relationship between a party's votes and its seats in India's First Past the Post electoral system
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This book provides a quantitative analysis of eight elections and an insight into voting patterns, detailing the election result for each candidate, for all the constituencies, in every Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's Bicameral-Parliament) general election from 1962 to 2014. The central purpose of this interrogation of data is to give shape to the notion of 'electoral efficiency', or the capacity of a party to convert votes into parliamentary seats. Parliamentary elections in India – and also elections to its state assemblies – are conducted under the First Past the Post (FPTP) system whereby a single representative for each of the 543 constituencies is elected as a Member of the Lok Sabha, on the basis of obtaining the largest number of all the candidates contesting that constituency. In brief, Votes, Parties, and Seats provides an in-depth study of the results of parliamentary general elections in India, and sheds light on why some parties are more efficient than others.
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Book Title: Votes, Parties, and Seats
Book Subtitle: A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Parliamentary Elections, 1962–2014
Authors: Vani Kant Borooah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30487-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30486-1Published: 28 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80823-9Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30487-8Published: 18 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Economics, International Political Economy, Economic Policy, Public Administration, Law and Economics, Electoral Politics