Vivek's Commentary

The recent trends in Assembly elections show that the local issues do matter. In this article, I am trying to understand the constituencywise voting pattern for Bihar, Maharashtra, and Kerala in the assembly election. I wanted to compare Bihar and Kerala's last two assembly elections as these states witnessed the state election in consecutive years as well as the differences in the development pattern. I added Maharashtra just for interest ('_').  Bihar in 2010 witnessed the fight between two alliances (actually three NDA, UPA, and RJD+LJP) while in 2015 it was between two major alliances Mahagathabandhana and NDA. The main difference between the two elections is that one happened before the 2014 Loksabha election and another happened after the 2014 Loksabha election.  The concentration index is formed for each constituency by adding the square of vote shares (in total valid votes) of all candidates in a given constituency. Another index is formed by using total number