Jumping directly into the electoral fray in the Lok Sabha elections without making inroads among the public becomes a cause of embarrassment for many leaders.
Forget about winning elections, it becomes difficult for such leaders to even get votes.
In this sequence, if we talk about the statistics regarding Uttarakhand, then in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were 47 candidates who, leave alone victory, could not even get a respectable defeat.
If we assess the Garhwal parliamentary constituency, the nearest rival of the candidate who won in the last Lok Sabha elections could not garner even 30 percent votes.
That means whoever won was given full support by the public. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 52 candidates had filed nominations to become MPs on five seats in Uttarakhand.
When the election results were declared, it was found that the deposits of 35 candidates had been forfeited.
In these cases, the candidates who won the parliamentary seats got 50 to 60 percent votes, while their nearest rivals had to be satisfied with only 25 to 35 percent votes.
Vote distribution in 2019
nearest seat winner
Garhwal 68.30 27.51
Tehri 64.50 30.22
Almora 64.00 30.48
Nainital 61.40 34.41
Haridwar 52.40 32.02