What is the difference between the separate electorate and the joint electorate?
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In a system on reservation of constituency a particular constituency result for a particular community. but all citizens of their constituency enjoy Right to vote and participate in the election. The system is also known as joint Election System. In a separate electorate system seats are reserved for Muslims, Christians ,etc, and a Muslim voter votes for the Muslim candidate only.Separate electorates for the Muslim was introduced under the Morley-Minto Reforms Act 1909. The introduction of communal electorate was ultimately responsible for the partition of India. The constitution makers rejected the separate electorate system required by the people on the basis of their religion.In place of separate electoral system, joint electorate system with reservation of seats was adopted under the new constitution. The constitution provides for reservation of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies. At present, out of 543 selected members of Lok Sabha, 84 are reserved for Scheduled castes and 47 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.
What is the difference between the separate electorate and the joint electorate?
- A joint electorate is one in which all eligible voters in a nation or region are represented by a single electorate and cast their votes for all candidates running in the elections.
- All members of the electorate cast votes for the candidates running for office in a joint electorate. No one is given a special advantage.
- A certain group is granted the ability to nominate candidates in a separate electorate, and only that group is allowed to cast ballots; everyone else is barred.
- There are also reserved electorates, in which a specific group is the only one allowed to nominate candidates, but all of the voters in that constituency may choose any of those candidates.
- Separate Electorate: The community to which the electorate belongs would select its own representatives through an election in which only members of that group would be permitted to run for office and cast ballots.
- This would imply that the elections to select the leaders of that specific community would take place separately and would not be included in general elections. Mahatma Gandhi was among those who saw how polarising it might be for society. Mahatma Gandhi put up a lot of resistance before this proposal was ultimately abandoned.
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