34 out of 59 constituencies voting in the May 12th elections have been declared as Red Alert Constituencies, that is constituencies where three or more candidates have declared criminal cases. Find out more such interesting details in the candidate analysis for Phase 6.
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) analysed the self-sworn affidavits of the candidates who contested polls on April 23rd. Out of 1594, 340 candidates (21%) had criminal cases. 230 had records of serious criminal cases, out of which 13 related to murder.
As Mangalore city, falling within the Dakshin Kannada parliamentary constituency goes to vote tomorrow, take a look at the candidate choices that the voter has.
India starts voting in the first phase of elections to the Lok Sabha later this week. Who are the richest candidates contesting in the first round? Which parties have fielded the most number of candidates with pending criminal cases? How serious are the allegations against them?