The election day debacle in Mumbai shows that the Election Commission's voter list data have long been suspect. Aadhaar would be a great solution for second-level authentication...

An analysis of vote share data and pre-poll alliances shows India is keeping true to its diverse federalism...

Data suggest that the BJP will have to deliver five per cent more seats than its best-ever performance to achieve 'Mission 272+'...

The Tamil Nadu chief minister's aspirations to be PM seem entirely logical with more multi-cornered contests, uncertainty in Andhra Pradesh and the winner-takes-all history of elections in Tamil Nadu...

The 72 Lok Sabha seats that these four states represent are a mere 13% of all seats in the lower house of Parliament...

In our electoral system of first-past-the-post, the probability that an independent will influence the eventual outcome of an election is statistically high...

A close analysis of the Tamil Nadu Assembly election results shows that there is no marked difference in the voting pattern...