In Maps: How Congress Is Being Squeezed Out Of Keralaâs Electoral Space
by Venu Gopal Narayanan - Apr 5, 2021 09:07 AM
Rahul Gandhi with party leaders in Kerala.
Snapshot
The Congress swansong is being composed by the BJP, who have taken away the bulk of the UDFâs traditional Nair vote.
True electoral analysis begins where psephology ends. At that point, analysts must put aside their probabilistic assessments and forecasts to cut to the actual nature and meaning of a mandate.
In that sense, a really useful analysis is one which draws out the motivations of political groups in adopting specific campaign strategies, and the extent to which they appeal to or are dependent upon various communities so as to quantify that which we intuitively gauge from voting patterns.