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ELECTORALTURN OUT
Turn out is an important factor in election studies. High turn out figures indicate people’s high interest in elections. In Kerala, turn out in general elections stands very high comparing to other states of India. Both in Parliament and Assembly elections the high turn out tendency continues over the elections and over the constituencies.

Its a notable feature of Kerala elections that, there is no drastic variations in polling over the constituencies and over the elections. In the parliament elections, the state turn out average(72 percent) is much higher than the all India average of (56.57). The Kerala State Assembly election turn out also stands much high comparing to turn out of other states. Kerala’s turn out figures is not particularly high in an international context but somewhat similar to the British poll figures. Crowe1 (1991) places the British figures in the fourteenth out of twenty democratic countries.











Another notable feature of Kerala polling figures is that there is no remarkable difference between men and women in casting their votes. In certain constituencies women’s turn out is much higher than men. In all India, men’s turn out is always stood much higher than the women’s turnout. In terms of valid- invalid votes ratio too, Kerala has had always higher place than the all India average.
























ELECTORAL CHANGES IN KERALA