Revisiting India’s Electoral Systems

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The manner in which elections are conducted under the FPTP system in India makes little distinction between voting for the party and voting for candidate.

Abstract: While debates around the relative advantage and disadvantage of electoral systems have usually centred on First-Past-The-Post and Proportional Representation Systems, both these need to be revisited in the context of India.