India – Record High Voter Turnout Explained

Today the results from India’s Lok Sabha elections will be known. Some 550 million voters (130 million more than in 2009) voted across in the month-long process. We ask what’s behind the record-high voter turnout of 66%. Is it an anti-incumbency wave or a ‘Modi-wave’, a reference to the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party? What do regional as well as gender-based variations in voting turnout tell us about India’s democracy? And should we believe exit-poll results.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.