Does Elected Candidate Represent a Common Man?
In my opinion the answer is
negative. Our Democracy is based on western values & methods. Majority is a
key word in democracy. However, there is no right rule to determine majority of
citizens. Majority is considered based on votes polled and not on votes in the
constituency. There is a need revise election system followed at present. In
present system a person may win election by getting support of 15% voters. For
declaring winning candidates there is only 1 criterion of maximum votes polled
for a candidate. It is observed that polling is around 50% or less. Only in a
few constituencies polling is higher than 50%. Generally candidates in the
arena are around 5 or more. Therefore, if a candidate gets 30% of polled votes
he/she is declared as elected. This means if a candidate gets support of 15%
citizens in a constituency he/she gets elected. This is ridiculous that such a
candidate is considered as representative of people of that constituency. Ideal would be unanimous election. This is
not practicable though. In my opinion minimum 35% of voters from voters’ list
for a constituency should be the minimum criteria in addition to the highest
votes gained by a candidate in the constituency. This means even if a certain
candidate gets highest votes for in a constituency, he/she shall not be
declared elected unless votes gained are over 35% of listed voters in the
constituency. Percentage of 35 is taken from the general criterion for passing
an examination. This could be increased based on experience and studies made
from time to time. Those candidates who fail to get elected shall be debarred
from contesting any election for a continuous period of 6 years from the date
of declaring result of election.



















