Votes, Parties, and Seats A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Parliame
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Vani Kant Borooah
Votes, Parties, and Seats
Vani Kant Borooah
Votes, Parties, and Seats A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Parliamentary Elections, 1962–2014
Vani Kant Borooah School of Economics Ulster University Newtownabbey, County Antrim, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-30486-1 ISBN 978-3-319-30487-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30487-8
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In memory of my father, Dev Kant Borooah (1914–1996): scholar, poet, politician.
PREFACE
My life changed irrevocably at the age of two when my father was elected as the Member for Nowgong to India’s Lower House of Parliament (the Lok Sabha) in the Indian General Election of 1951, and we moved from, what was then, the sleepy backwater of the state of Assam to the hurlyburly of metropolitan life in India’s capital, New Delhi. In those years of living in New Delhi, discussion of electoral politics and parliamentary affairs was very much the staple of conversation within the home, and I grew up with an easy familiarity with terms like ‘whipping members into lobbies’, ‘lame-duck sessions’, ‘waving order papers’, and—indignity of indignities—‘naming by the Speaker’. Parliament and elections were, so to speak, ‘in my blood’. Years later, after I moved to England and became an academic economist, when politics ceased to be part of life’s quotidian rhythm, my interest in parliamentary elections did not wane. This book is the product of that undimmed interest. The foundations of this book lie in a set of data which records the details of the election result for each candidate, for all the constituencies, in every Lok Sabha General Election from 1962 to 2014. The edifice built upon this foundation, and dis
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