Electoral Politics Class 9 Notes Political Science (Civics) Chapter 3
Chapter: 3
What Are Electoral Politics ?
Why Elections?
- An election is a process through which people choose their representatives at regular intervals.
- Elections provide a way to the people to assert their voice, opinion and choose the person whose priorities and ideas matches with them most.
What Makes An Election Democratic?
- Everyone should have one vote and every vote should have equal value.
- Parties and candidates should be free to contest elections and should offer some real choice to the voters.
- The choice should be offered at regular intervals. Elections must be held regularly after every fixed periodic intervals.
- The candidate preferred by the people should get elected.
- Elections should be conducted in a free and fair manner where people can choose as they really wish.
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