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Bill for Compulsory Voting

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  • Bhanu Joshi

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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.

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  • Bhanu Joshi, 2016. "Bill for Compulsory Voting," Working Papers id:10720, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:10720
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