General Election 2024: These days the political atmosphere is hot in the entire country due to general elections., These days every leader is going through a tough test., Leaders are trying their best to win the elections, Competition appears tough in many places, In such a situation, many times the voters also get divided among the candidates., In such a situation, have you ever thought that what will happen if the match gets drawn like in cricket?, To put it in simple language, has this question ever come to your mind that if two candidates get equal number of votes in an election, then how is the result determined?, Let us tell you its mathematics today.,
what does the rule say,
There is also a possibility in elections that two candidates may get equal number of votes., In such a situation, the section of the Representation of the People Act 65 According to, apart,If during the counting of votes for different posts, two candidates get equal number of votes then lottery will be one such option in case of equal number of votes., from which the winner will be declared,
The authority to draw lottery rests with the returning officer present there., In the lottery system, the slips containing the names of the candidates who have got equal number of votes are kept in a box., Then after moving the box, The returning officer takes out a slip from it, Whichever candidate’s name slip comes out, An additional vote is considered in his name, In this way, if one vote increases through lottery, one of the two candidates is declared the winner.,
Have you ever needed to win a lottery?,
In India, the winner of elections has been declared many times through lottery., Year 2018 In Panchayat elections of Sikkim 6 seats The winner was declared by tossing a coin, Actually, there was equal status among the winners on all these seats.,
Also February 2017 Such a case was seen in BMC elections also., Where there was a tie between BJP candidate Atul Shah and Shiv Sena’s Surendra., Both voters got equal number of votes in this election., To ensure his victory, votes were counted twice more., However the situation still remained the same, In such a situation, Atul Shah was the winner through lottery system.,
