Does high voter turnout suggest an election wave this time?

by confuzzled dude Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:55 pm

Such was the popular resentment against the Indira Gandhi-led Congress in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections that the party managed to win only two out of the 237 seats it contested in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi. Its success rate — seats won as a percentage of seats contested — fell by a staggering 48 percentage points compared with the 1971 elections and its vote share by nearly 10 percentage points. The party did not win a single seat in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, two states that had 139 Lok Sabha seats then.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/elections-2014/does-high-voter-turnout-suggest-an-election-wave-this-time-114042400194_1.html

-> Can Lord Modi match '77 wave? In '77 Congress did well in the south, won 40 out of 42 seats in A.P and I believe pretty much the case in Karnataka as well, won more than 25 out of 28(?). It seems to be quite the opposite now, BJP won't come close to Janata Party's success in UP and Bihar, as a matter of fact those two states are very closely contested but may do better in south (will it?).

by confuzzled dude Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:26 pm

1977 election results by state:
http://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1977-election-results.html

Does high voter turnout suggest an election wave this time?

Does high voter turnout suggest an election wave this time?

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