Five verdicts, one lesson

Anti-incumbency is one word for many failures. While electors have different reasons to vote out a government, these are usually massed together under this catch-all concept. Even so, this intangible factor is of great explanatory value to the 2012 Assembly elections, which actually threw up mixed results: Uttar Pradesh and Goa bringing about regime change, Punjab and Manipur voting for continuity and Uttarakhand leaving no one with a clear majority.

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