Summer 2019 – India

More than 600 million people cast their votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha election – India’s highest turnout to date. My first task at CPR was to take a closer look at voter turnout in the Banda District of Uttar Pradesh. In the 2014 election, the average turnout in Banda was 53%. For this election, the district magistrate launched a campaign to reach an ambitious target: 90% turnout…