MmmmTIL that Modi despite being ranked as one of the world's most popular democratic leaders in media only got votes from 16% of total indian population in 2024 election
Despite being called as world’s most popular democratic leader, Modi’s party and alliance only got votes from around 16% of total population(235,974,144/1.4Billion) (70% of population were eligible for 2024 elections).
Factors causing this :-
1)A large number of eligible voters not voting is the primary reason for this phenomena.(A large number of indian population is employed in informal low wage jobs, most of the time they won’t go for voting because they won’t get paid leaves. )
2)first past the post system instead of proporational representation amplies this issue .
( Despite opposition party getting 21.19voting %, they only won 99 seats in Congress/parliament whereas Modi’s party with just 36.56 voting% won 240 seats)
3)urban class are the major vote banks for Modi’s party
shawn1122You’ve used the entire population of India as the denominator which includes children, noncitizens and others not eligible to vote. If we’re looking at percentage of eligible adults: 24.3% voted for him. If we’re looking at vote share (percentage of total votes) it’s 36.6%.
The US based intelligence firm Morning Consult ranks leaders on approval ratings and he is often ranked high with a 65 to 75% approval rating, which plays into the perception:
Non citizens account a small percentage of indian population (less than 1% of total population) , most of the non citizens in india are mostly people from Bangladesh or refugees from Pakistan , afganistan or myanmar. Total eligible population accounts for almost 70% if we exclude children , 36.6% vote share actually comes from total number of voters that have voted despite 70% being eligible , that’s why I said in my statement (2).
Approval rate of modi in morning consult is based on assumption excluding opinions of muslims , people in kashmir , and mainly south indians . 65-75% approval is a blanded lie because it is excluded non hindi/Urdu speaking population (especially dravidian language speaking group)