Elections are the mechanism by which citizens can choose their representatives and change them periodically. Elections allow citizens to choose who will make laws and the party whose policies will guide the government. India holds regular national and state elections every five years in all constituencies on the same day. The country is divided into electoral constituencies and reserved constituencies exist for scheduled castes and tribes. Any citizen over 18 can vote regardless of attributes, while convicted criminals cannot. The Election Commission of India conducts free and fair elections.

1. ELECTORAL POLITICS

2. WHAT ARE ELECTIONS?
Elections are the mechanism
by which the people can choose
their representatives at regular intervals
of time and change them if they wish to do
so.

3. WHY ELECTION?
• It helps us to choose who will
make law for us.
• Voters can choose the party whose
policies will guide the government.
• It is not physically possible for the
whole population to sit together and
make decisions.

4. ELECTION AND
DEMOCRACY

5. IS IT GOOD TO HAVE
POLITICAL COMPITITION?

6. DO WE REALLY NEED DIFFERENT
POLITICAL PARTIES?
INDIAN NATIONAL
CONGRESS

7. BHARTIYA JANTA PARTY
DO WE REALLY NEED DIFFERENT
POLITICAL PARTIES?

8. DO WE REALLY NEED DIFFERENT
POLITICAL PARTIES?
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA

9. DO WE REALLY NEED DIFFERENT
POLITICAL PARTIES?
BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY

10. DO WE REALLY NEED DIFFERENT
POLITICAL PARTIES?
NATIONALIST CONGRESS
PARTY

11. OUR SYSTEM OF
ELECTIONS

13. Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha
elections are held regularly after
every five years.
Elections are held in all
constituencies at the same time.
These are called GENERAL
ELECTION.

14. ELECTORAL
CONSTITUENCIES

15. The country is divided into
different areas for purposes of
elections.
These areas are called electoral
constituencies.
The representative elected from
each constituency is called a
Member of Parliament.

17. RESERVED CONSITUENCY
Electoral constituencies that are
reserved for candidates from
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes are known as reserved
constituencies.

18. VOTER LIST

19. ELECTION PHOTO IDENTITY CARD

20. WHO CAN VOTE?
• Any citizen over the age of 18
irrespective of
caste, creed, religion or
gender can cast vote.
• Those who are convicted of certain
criminal offences are not allowed to
vote.

22. ELECTION COMMISSION
• It is a powerful body which conducts
elections in our country
• It implements the code of conduct
and punishes any candidate or party
that violates it.
• Election commission is free from
political influence.

23. ELECTION
COMMISION OFFICE

24. CASE STUDY

25. VOTER TURNOUT IN INDIA
AND UK
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1995 2005
INDIA
UK

26. PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE
IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
1996 1998 1999 2004
PARTICIPATION
PARTICIPATION

27. VOTER TURNOUT IN INDIA
AND US BY SOCIAL GROUPS
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
GEN. OBC SC ST WHITE BLACK HISPANIC

28. MADE BY
• KUNAL SINGH
• KASHISH ANAND
• HARSHIT SHARMA
• HIRENDRA LAKHOTIA