Electoral Reforms: EC mulls for One Candidate One Constituency

Recently, the Election Commission (EC) proposed the Ministry of Law & Justice to limit the seats from which a candidate can contest to just one.

  • Earlier EC had made a proposal to the government in 2004 and 2016 to amend the provisions of the concerned Act to restrict the candidate to contest from one constituency.

Legal Provisions

  • Section 33(7) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1951, allows a person to contest a general election or a group of bye-elections or biennial elections from two constituencies.
  • Section 70 of the RPA specifies that a person ....
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