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Verdict 2004: Graphical representation (PDF) 2 MB
Radical shift in the social basis of political power
Elections 2004 signals a reversal of the process that brought the BJP to power and the possibility of an alternative bloc of the socially marginalised, says Yogendra Yadav.
Methodology of National Election Study 2004
NES 2004 was the largest and most comprehensive social-scientific study conducted on Indian elections. The CSDS team explains methods used to find out what the electorate thinks and why it behaved in the way it did.
A vote for secular politics
The Bharatiya Janata Party's defeat has created such a widespread sense of relief among those committed to a vision of a diverse and secular India, that it has begun to appear like a verdict for secular politics. The BJP's poor showing in Gujarat ...
The turnout was low but not alarmingly so
If the `1990s witnessed the `second democratic upsurge'— greater participation and more intense politicisation of the disadvantaged social groups — the recent Lok Sabha elections indicate both a stabilisation of that ...
Reform: the elites want it, the masses don't
The BJP's `feel good' and `Shining India' campaign had an unintended consequence: it made the economy into an election issue, forcing everyone including the media to pay some attention to this. The election verdict has continued this focus on the ...
Caste matters, but so do a whole lot of other things
Indian democracy has undergone a major transition in the last decade or so. Earlier, most of the political parties tended to be `catch all' parties that got support from different sections of society in more or less even measure. The Congress ...
Vajpayee's popularity alone was not enough
In calling for early elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party's strategists had banked heavily on the popularity of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The reasoning was simple and persuasive. One, Mr. Vajpayee's popularity rating was way above that of the ...
Alliances did the trick for the Congress
The Congress' euphoric reaction to the election results and its claim that a decisive mandate has been awarded to the party are somewhat hard to reconcile after a closer examination of the share of the votes and the seats won by the party. Anyone ...
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