(In a country of a billion people its possible to have 64 candidates for one single constituency.)
I don't understand the connection there. I could see how large constituencies would result in many candidates, and I can certainly see that some electoral systems would result in many candidates (although I thought that India was first-past-the-post), but not how having many people overall causes many candidates for a constituency.
I suppose perhaps having many people might cause it, as long as the overall number of constituencies was kept proportionately low (if, say, there were only a few hundred across the whole country). But that's not a necessary result of having a billion people.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 10:25 am (UTC)I don't understand the connection there. I could see how large constituencies would result in many candidates, and I can certainly see that some electoral systems would result in many candidates (although I thought that India was first-past-the-post), but not how having many people overall causes many candidates for a constituency.
I suppose perhaps having many people might cause it, as long as the overall number of constituencies was kept proportionately low (if, say, there were only a few hundred across the whole country). But that's not a necessary result of having a billion people.