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Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Materially affected
Materially affected, What s. 100 requires is that the High Court before it declares the election of a returned candidate is void should be of opinion that the result of the election insofar as it concerns a returned candidate has been materially affected by the improper acceptance of any nomination. It is not intended to provide a convenient technical plea in a case like this where there can be no dispute at all about the election being materially affected by the accepted of the improper nomination. 'Materially affected' is not a formula that has got to be specified but it is an essential requirement that is contemplated in this section, Durai Muthuswami v. N. Nachiappan, AIR 1973 SC 1419: (1973) 2 SCC 45: (1974) 1 SCR 40.These words indicate that the result should not be judged by the mere increase or decrease in the total number of votes secured by the returned candidate but by proof of the fact that the wasted votes would have been distributed in such a manner between the contesting...
election
election 1 a : the act or process of electing b : an instance of the electorate voting for candidates for an elective office c : the fact of being elected 2 : the right, power, or privilege of making a choice: as a : the right of a spouse to choose a statutorily prescribed amount of a deceased spouse's estate or whatever was devised to him or her under the will b : the right of a person who has an interest in property that a deceased has disposed of by will either to claim his or her right to the property or to accept what he or she was devised under the will instead c : the right of a party to a contract that has been breached by the other party to choose to continue or terminate the contract see also election of remedies, equitable election ...
Electioneer
To make interest for a candidate at an election to use arts for securing the election of a candidate...
Parliamentary Constituency
Parliamentary Constituency, it is the parliamentary constituency that sends the representatives to fill the seats in the House of the people. Elections are held from such constituencies and candidates declared duly elected, fill the seats in the House of Parliament to which they are elected.Means a constituency provided by law for the purpose of elections to the House of the People. See also V.V. Giri v. D. Suri Dora, AIR 1959 SC 1318: (1960) 1 SCR 426. [Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), s. 2 (f)]...
Returned candidate
Returned candidate, means a candidate whose name has been published under section 67 as duly elected. [Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951), s. 79(f)]...
return
return 1 a : to give (an official account or report) to a superior (as by a list or statement) [ the names of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty days "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the grand jury ed six indictments] [ed a verdict of not guilty] 2 : to bring in or produce (as earnings or profit) : yield re·turn·able adj n 1 a : the delivery of a court order (as a writ) to the proper officer or court b : proof of service 2 : return day 3 : an account or formal report (as of an action performed or duty discharged or of facts and statistics) [census s] ;esp : a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information usually used in pl. 4 a : a report of the results of balloting [election s] b : an official declaration of the election of a candidate [each house shall be the judge of the elections, s,...
Zero
Zero, is a lowest point or lowest in order, Webster's Third New International Dictionary.It is a mathematical value, intermediate between negative and positive values, Random House Dictionary of English Language.Zero, represents the lowest point of degree of the lowest number of votes which can be possibly be obtained by a candidate, Shrimikar v. Keshri Chand, AIR 1984 Raj 14 (18). [Rajasthan Municipalities (Election of Chairman,Vice-Chairman, President and Vice-President) Rules (1959), R. 10(8)(a)(ii)]Zero, undoubtedly has a mathematical value inter-mediate between positive and negative values. Every member of the board has one vote and if a duly nominated candidate does not receive the vote of even one of the members, then he would be considered to have obtained zero vote, because votes have to be counted in terms of number, Shriniwas v. Keshri Chand, AIR 1984 Raj 14....
Preferential voting
A system of voting as at primaries in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference usually their first and second choices between two or more candidates for an office so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together in nominated or elected...
primary
primary 1 : of first rank, value, or importance 2 : belonging to the first group or order in successive divisions, combinations, or ramifications pri·mar·i·ly [prī-mer-ə-lē] adv n pl: -ries 1 : caucus 2 : an election in which qualified voters nominate or express a preference for a particular candidate or group of candidates for political office, choose party officials, or select delegates for a party convention ...
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