Bill for Compulsory Voting

Bhanu Joshi

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Abstract: An 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.

Keywords: local bodies; Gujarat; electoral data; India; elections; voter turnouts; city corporation; urban local body; national; state local; megacities; states; rural; turnouts; national; state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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