’Landslide’: surprising results of the elections in India
Indians like to talk about a 'landslide' when elections lead to an unexpected change of government as they did in May 2004. Hearing about such a dramatic event one would expect that a massive shift of the national vote produced such results. But the majority election system which India has...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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Asien
Year: 2004, Volume: 92, Pages: 87-89 |
| ISSN: | 2701-8431 |
| DOI: | 10.11588/asien.2004.92.14677 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.11588/asien.2004.92.14677 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/asien/article/view/14677 
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| Author Notes: | Dietmar Rothermund |
| Summary: | Indians like to talk about a 'landslide' when elections lead to an unexpected change of government as they did in May 2004. Hearing about such a dramatic event one would expect that a massive shift of the national vote produced such results. But the majority election system which India has inherited from the British often translates a shift of only a few percentages in the national vote into a major change in the number of seats won by different parties. |
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| ISSN: | 2701-8431 |
| DOI: | 10.11588/asien.2004.92.14677 |