India holds a parliamentary election in April and May 2014. It is expected that the various parties, candidates, and other participants will spend $5,000,000,000. This will be the second most expensive election campaign in world history, topped only by the U.S. 2012 election. See this story.
Indian polls are only open one day, but each state votes on a different day. The election dates for the 2014 election run from April 7 to May 12. India will fill all 543 seats in Parliament. This year India appears to have a multi-party system. See this wikipedia article on the election.
One giant gerrymander/plurality regime — due to the Brit former control.
Do even 15 percent of the voters elect a bare majority of the legislators ???
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — in ALL regimes
before it is too late.
They should outsource their campaigns to Americans. We come much cheaper now.
German Constitutional Court nixes threshold for EU Parliament elections:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=282837089
Parties with less than 1% of vote could get elected.