Determinants of Voting Turnout in Assembly Constituencies in Haryana: A Geographical Study

By : Krishna Mohan , Deepak Arya

Page No: 132-147

Abstract
Voting turnout is determined by numerous factors such as literacy, caste, occupation and level of urbanisation etc. However, determinants over time and space change their significance. The present paper is an attempt to find the changes in the determinants that influence the voters and impact the voter turnout. It takes into account the results of three assembly elections of Haryana i.e. 2009, 2014 and 2019. Major sources of the data are the statistical reports of the Election Commission of India and primary abstract from census of India. The census data was reorganised at assembly constituency level. The statistical methods used in the paper are standard deviation, variance, Z-score and Karl Pearson’s correlation. Maps are made to trace out the spatial patterns. We find that western, northern and central Haryana voted higher than southern and south-eastern Haryana. A surge of turnout was found in 2014 election which is associated with the change in
government. Urban populations, Literacy, household workers are found most negative determinants and agricultural labour, cultivators and scheduled caste populations are found the most positive determinants of turnout.

Author
Krishna Mohan: Professor, Department of Geography, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Deepak Arya: Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India and Assistant Professor of Geography, Government College Nalwa, Hisar, Haryana.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2025.45.01.8