A village where everyone votes for just one candidate

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:39:53 AM View in Browser > Everything on Elections 2019 in your inbox, every day To unsubscribe this newsletter, please click here What's happening today Voting in 117 constituencies in Phase 3 of elections Modi's rallies in Odisha and Jharkhand Rahul to campaign in Madhya Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will campaign in Barabanki The mother-of-all phases Today's votes will decide the fate of BJP president Amit Shah from Gandhinagar and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad (Kerala), his second seat, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav who is contesting from Mainpuri 'in his last election'. Dilli Door Ast for AAP & Congress? In 2014 polls, AAP polled 33% of the votes while Congress got 15%. Put together, the vote share was 48%, two percentage points more than the BJP's 46%. In the 2015 assembly polls, the AAP-Congress combined vote share of 64.1% was almost twice that of BJP's 32.1% (AAP swept the polls with 54.3% votes). In the 2017 municipal elections, while AAP's vote share fell to 26%, Congress' rose to 21.28% but they collectively got 47.32% of the total votes compared to 36.08% vote share of the BJP. But this time they are split, so is it advantage BJP?. Did you know this? Every election year, the sarpanch turns up at Ghol with reasons why the village should pick a particular symbol. The residents then march en masse to vote, and they all choose the same symbol. It's a unanimous decision by nearly 100 people, all based on the word of one person. Ghol falls under Baramati, which is NCP president Sharad Pawar's stronghold. Politics 'Pua' vs 'Bohu' on Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seat Rahul Gandhi's nomination for Amethi LS seat found valid It's a game of chess in UP's wild east Why Mulayam is Mainpuri's main man How Facebook fights fake news in the world's largest election FOLLOW US ON ET: About us|Advertise with us|Feedback|Sitemap|Code of Ethics © 2019 Times Internet Limited. To ensure delivery directly to your inbox, please add etnotifications@indiatimes.com to your address book today. If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please click here To unsubscribe or edit your subscriptions please click here