Looking at this table would you say that people’s participation during the past
50 years has: decreased/increased/been stable after initial increase?
Lok Sabha | Election Year | Voter Turnout (%) |
1st | 1951-52 | 44.87 |
4th | 1967 | 61.04 |
5th | 1971 | 55.27 |
6th | 1977 | 60.49 |
8th | 1984 | 63.56 |
10th | 1991 | 56.73 |
14th | 2004 | 58.07 |
It is clear that the participation of people during the last 50 years has been increased as in the election of 1951-52 more than 61% people have voted while in the recent election of 2014-15 more than 66% of people has participated in voting.