One nation, one election: Why Modi govt wants to go for simultaneous polls

Three out 10 registered voters still cannot cast their votes in Indian elections

In 2010, Csaba Nikolenyi, a Montreal-based professor at Concordia University studying Indian elections, published a paper in a publication of the Political Studies Association. Nikolenyi used the most basic of all formulas to calculate voter motivation, among others, and drew the conclusion that separate elections in India were preventing more people from participating in the democratic process.

The formula

Known as the Riker-Ordeshook model, the formula was as follows: pB+D > C. In the formula, ‘p’ is the probability that the act of the individual’s vote will decide the outcome of the election; ‘B’ is the benefit of the voter’s