State elections in India: data handbook on vidhan sabha elections 1952-85

This invaluable researchiad reference sourcebook brings together all electoral statistics relating to Vidhan Sabha period 1952-85.
Reliable and accurate electoral statistics needed at levels for quantitative analyses Indiantions. present, this is available only the reports published by Commission after each election. The Handbook the relevant information from these reports and presents them in uniform format so as to facilitate comparative analysis of election results.
This, the first volume of State Elections India covers the Northern region- all the Vidhan Sabha elections and bye-elections held 1952 and Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. constituency results have checked errors and omissions and state aggregates been arrived by adding corrected constituency re sults. The Handbook reports on voter turnout, vote and seat shares parties and the party affilia tions of the candidates. Since tuencies remain unaltered between the decennial the Handbook detailed consti table all such elections facilitate comparison across elections: A state-wise com parability chart for districts presented the help deter mine extent change brought about through alterations in boundaries of districts states this period.
The Handbook the result of painstaking, verification electoral statistics. All institutions, political scientists and researchers concerned with elections wel come book.