state three main characteristics of the election system in India
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Universal adult franchise, representative democracy, and independent election commission
These were the three main characteristics of the election system in India.
Explanation:
Universal adult franchise was guaranteed by the "constitution of India".
Age limit was reduced from 21 to 18 through 61st constitutional amendment act.
Each and every people have the "right to vote" irrespective of caste, religion, sex, race and so on.
India followed the representative democracy or indirect democracy rather than direct d/emocracy.
Independent election commission was setup under chief election commissioner and two other election commissioners.
Sukumar Sen was the "first chief election commissioner" of India.
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Elections to the Lok Sabha and each Vidhan Sabha are carried out using a first-past-the-post electoral system. For each constituency, the electors can cast their vote for a single candidate (of their choice), the winner being the candidate who gets the most votes.