Update

Muft Shiksha™ एक 100% Free Education Portal है 🇮🇳, जिसका उद्देश्य Class 9–12 के हर विद्यार्थी तक High-Quality Education को पूरी तरह मुफ्त पहुँचाना है। 🇮🇳 हम मानते हैं कि अच्छी शिक्षा किसी student की आर्थिक स्थिति पर निर्भर नहीं होनी चाहिए। 🇮🇳 हर विद्यार्थी को वही Quality Study Material, MCQs, Quizzes, Exam Preparation, Concept-Based Learning और Bilingual Support मिलना चाहिए, जो आमतौर पर महंगी Coaching या Premium Platforms में मिलता है। Muft Shiksha™ 🇮🇳 इसी सोच के साथ बनाया गया है

Subjects

Civics

Why Do We Need Elections?

हमें चुनावों की आवश्यकता क्यों है?

In Class 9 Civics, under the chapter Electoral Politics, Why Do We Need Elections? explains why elections are essential in a democracy. Students learn how citizens choose representatives, hold governments accountable, replace leaders peacefully when needed, and give legitimacy to the government. The topic also highlights voting as a means for people to express their choices and expectations.

TOPIC PRACTICE

Quiz this set

Up to 20 questions from this page. Select your focus, then start.

20 questions
Choose questions
Hard · Level 39 · public participation,debate,evaluation
View options
  1. Citizens gather information debate and evaluate representatives
  2. Citizens have no role
  3. Voters only make counting machines
  4. Campaigning is unrelated to democracy
Hard · Level 39 · voting,right,responsibility
View options
  1. Because citizens take part in deciding the direction of governance
  2. Because vote has no relation with governance
  3. Because voting ends citizenship
  4. Because voting is only private entertainment
Hard · Level 39 · representatives,public issues,governance
View options
  1. They are elected by people's votes and raise issues in policy and assemblies
  2. They hide people's problems
  3. They remain permanent without elections
  4. They stop voters from speaking
Hard · Level 39 · policy choice,leadership,elections
View options
  1. People can compare different programmes and leadership styles
  2. People need not compare anything
  3. Leaders are always decided by birth
  4. Policies are outside elections
Hard · Level 39 · weaker sections,inclusive representation,democracy
View options
  1. Inclusive representation
  2. Monarchy
  3. Foreign policy
  4. Weather management
Hard · Level 39 · equal vote,poor rich,political equality
View options
  1. Political rights do not depend on wealth
  2. Rich person's vote is always greater
  3. Poor should not get vote
  4. Politics is only about property
Hard · Level 39 · violence,campaigning,free choice
View options
  1. Free and thoughtful choice
  2. Voter age limit
  3. Polling booth address
  4. Counting date
Hard · Level 39 · power,test,public evaluation
View options
  1. Because people judge the work of those in power
  2. Because power always runs without people
  3. Because power remains free from elections
  4. Because people's votes are not counted
Hard · Level 39 · freedom,equality,vote
View options
  1. Freedom makes election real and equality makes it fair
  2. Freedom ends voting and equality increases fear
  3. Both are unrelated to voting
  4. Both are only for candidates
Hard · Level 39 · power,people control,temporary
View options
  1. Under people's control and temporary
  2. Hereditary and permanent
  3. Under foreign control
  4. Separate from voters
Hard · Level 39 · necessary elections,free fair,quality
View options
  1. Because elections must be free fair competitive and informed
  2. Because elections are not needed in democracy
  3. Because elections always create dictatorship
  4. Because voters have no role
Hard · Level 39 · remove representative,accountability,democracy
View options
  1. Representatives' accountability will weaken
  2. Voters' power will increase
  3. Elections will become more real
  4. Mandate will become stronger
Hard · Level 39 · manifesto,policy comparison,voters
View options
  1. They provide a basis to compare policies and promises
  2. They stop votes from being counted
  3. They make elections hereditary
  4. They hide voter list
Hard · Level 39 · public opinion,regular elections,current mandate
View options
  1. Because social problems and expectations change over time
  2. Because people's opinion never changes
  3. Because government has no relation with people
  4. Because elections are only tradition
Hard · Level 39 · result acceptance,mandate,peaceful democracy
View options
  1. Respect for mandate and peaceful power process
  2. Violent conflict
  3. Hereditary rule
  4. Secret politics
Hard · Level 39 · need elections,representation,legitimacy,accountability
View options
  1. They convert people's choice into representation control of power legitimacy and accountability
  2. They keep people out of governance
  3. They are only a formal ritual of leaders
  4. They are sufficient even without choice and freedom
Hard · Level 39 · no elections,public control,democracy
View options
  1. People would lose the main means to choose change and hold government accountable
  2. Government will become more accountable
  3. People will get more choices
  4. Power will become more temporary
Hard · Level 39 · real choice,free voting,fair counting
View options
  1. People's real consent and accountability of power
  2. Hereditary power and permanent rule
  3. End of voters' role
  4. Government rule without mandate
Expert · Level 37 · large democracy,representation,elections
View options
  1. People can participate in governance by choosing representatives from different areas
  2. All citizens can sit in Parliament every day
  3. Government remains completely separate from people
  4. Need for political parties ends
Expert · Level 37 · real choice,democratic choice,elections
View options
  1. Lack of vote counting
  2. Lack of voter list
  3. Lack of democratic choice
  4. Lack of polling station