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Friday, May 22, 2009

Vote share vis-à-vis seats won

[There are only three things one can say we can with a degree of certitude. One, regional parties remain a force. Two, the electoral arithmetic can cause the outcome in terms of seats won to diverge significantly from the outcome in terms of vote shares. Three, the only way to combat the anti-incumbency factor is to focus on measures that have a pro-poor and rural orientation. Understanding the results of the 2009 elections
from The Big Picture by T T Ram Mohan]

It is certainly feasible to devise a more dependable paradigm of choosing representatives by using the enormous data that our elections generate for processing via various mathematical models. [TNM]

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