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Feb 10, 2015 16:21:53 GMT
Post by Sibboleth on Feb 10, 2015 16:21:53 GMT
Not just a victory but a massive, massive landslide.
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Feb 10, 2015 17:15:17 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 17:15:17 GMT
What is interesting here is the complete obliteration of the Congress Party. There are now a number of left of centre/popular parties which seem to be suffering from serious erosion of their political base from new parties. Where next, the PSOE in Spain?
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Post by middyman on May 22, 2015 11:11:07 GMT
It has become apparent during my time in Srinagar that Modi is playing a dangerous game in Kashmir. After the September floods, I asked the UK Goverment what assistance would be offered. The answer was none because India had said it didn't help. The people to whom I have spoken have not received anywhere the assistance they need. An extended family I know consisting of four family units has received a total of INR12600 (about 95 to the £). They lost absolutely everything. Their house was uninhabitable. They are not being allowed to re-build because their home is too near the lake, but no other site has been made available. Unemployment is at a high level and the young have no prospect of finding work. Tourists have stayed away since the flood (with certain notable exceptions). India rather than Modi is being blamed. Today, Pakistani flags have been waved by demonstrators in Srinagar. I have no idea how this is going to develop but the omens are bad.
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Post by Sibboleth on May 30, 2015 17:04:48 GMT
It has become apparent during my time in Srinagar that Modi is playing a dangerous game... How entirely out of character. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 19, 2016 4:56:11 GMT
The RegionalElections seem to have ended badly for INC:
Assam BJP
TamilNadu AIADMK
WestBengal AITC
Kerala LDF (=CPM+)
Puducherry AINRC (?)
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May 19, 2016 13:46:09 GMT
Post by Sibboleth on May 19, 2016 13:46:09 GMT
No worse than expected for them (they'd as good as conceded defeat in Assam a while back and Kerala ages ago). The most significant results are in WB and TN: first time a TN government has been re-elected for a very long time (and despite the whole 'jail' thing!) while the situation in WB now looks pretty terminal for the once dominant Awful Commies (which is a good thing even if Trinamool Congress aren't much better).
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May 19, 2016 14:29:24 GMT
Post by Sibboleth on May 19, 2016 14:29:24 GMT
In WB Congress and the Commies ran as allies this time and so split seats between each other; remarkably, unbelievably, it seems that Congress have emerged with more seats than their allies!
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 11, 2017 19:02:52 GMT
An important set of state elections declared today; the big news is that the BJP have won a landslide in Uttar Pradesh, effectively repeating their 2014 performance. Incumbent governments in UP invariably lose and the Samajwadi Party has been riven by factional/family (same thing!) disputes, but as (now former) Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is personally popular and as the BJP has had some bad headlines wrt the whole currency change fiasco it was thought that maybe this wouldn't happen and polls had predicted a tight race. Nope: NDA 325 (BJP 312), SP+ 54 (SP 47, INC 7). As in the Union election the third wheel in the state, the Dalit dominated BSP, had a rough night and won just 19 seats. NDA won 40% of the vote, SP-INC 28% and the BSP 22%.
Results elsewhere... in Uttarkhand the awful INC government was curbstomped by the awful BJP opposition (56 seats to 12), the INC have surprisingly come out on top (though without majorities) in Goa and Manipur (incumbents in the latter) and have won a landslide in Punjab where the comically corrupt (i.e. even for India) SAD-BJP government was beaten into third by the AAP.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 12, 2017 16:14:09 GMT
Final (?) results, taken from the ECI:
UttarPradesh (403 seats):
39.7% = 312 BJP
01.0% = 009 ADAL
00.7% = 004 SBSP
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41.4% = 325 BJP+
21.8% = 47 SP
06.2% = 07 INC
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28.0% = 54 SP+
22.2% = 19 BSP
02.6% = 3 Ind.
01.8% = 1 RLD
00.6% = 1 NINSHAD
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Mar 12, 2017 16:17:18 GMT
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 12, 2017 16:17:18 GMT
Uttarakhand (70 seats):
46.5% = 56-57 BJP
33.5% = 11-12 INC
10.0% = 2 Ind.
07.0% = 0 BSP
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 12, 2017 16:21:32 GMT
Punjab (117 seats):
38.5% = 77 INC
25.2% = 15 SAD
05.4% = 03 BJP
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30.6% = 18 SAD+
23.7% = 20 AAP
01.2% = 02 LIP
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24.9% = 22 AAP+
02.1% = 0 Ind.
01.5% = 0 BSP
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 12, 2017 16:26:27 GMT
Manipur (60 seats):
36.3% = 21 BJP
07.2% = 04 NPF
05.1% = 04 NPP
02.5% = 01 LJSP
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51.1% = 30 NDA
35.1% = 28 INC
05.1% = 01 Ind.
03.4% = 00 NEINDP
01.4% = 01 AITC
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 12, 2017 16:30:51 GMT
Goa (40 seats):
32.5% = 13 BJP
28.4% = 17 INC
03.5% = 03 GFP
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31.9% = 20 INC+
11.3% = 03 MAG
01.2% = 00 GSM
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12.5% = 03 MAG+
11.1% = 03 Ind.
06.3% = 00 AAP
02.3% = 01 NCP
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Post by Foggy on Mar 12, 2017 16:33:51 GMT
At first glance, this looks like an absurdly large figure for what is, after all, the lower house of a subnational legislature. Then you remember that the state has a population in excess of 200 million... |
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Mar 12, 2017 17:01:13 GMT
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 12, 2017 17:01:13 GMT
I was watching some of the coverage on the international Indian channels - for all the difficulties of Brexit and Corbyn and all that, I wouldn't swap UK politics for India.
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Mar 12, 2017 17:46:42 GMT
Post by Sibboleth on Mar 12, 2017 17:46:42 GMT
I should probably put all of those Indian constituency maps I made a while back into a separate thread. And get round to doing the elections in the later 90s.
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I was watching some of the coverage on the international Indian channels - for all the difficulties of Brexit and Corbyn and all that, I wouldn't swap UK politics for India. why's that? |
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Post by neilm on Mar 14, 2017 1:58:05 GMT
I was watching some of the coverage on the international Indian channels - for all the difficulties of Brexit and Corbyn and all that, I wouldn't swap UK politics for India. why's that? Full of splitters. There are literally dozens of Marxist parties (all of which are too right wing for Merseymike  ) |
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Post by Foggy on Dec 14, 2017 23:43:00 GMT
Exit polls in the state of Gujarat suggest the BJP will hold onto power easily with 117 seats to 64 constituencies for Congress and 1 'other' Assembly member.
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