With reference to types of elections, answer the following:

(a) What is known as General Elections?

(b) State two points of difference between By-Election and Mid-term Election.

(c) When were the last General Elections held in India? What do you understand by the term 'Electorate'? What are the rights of the Electorate?

With reference to terms of office and conditions of service of the Election Commission, answer the following questions:

(a) Who constitutes the Election Commission? Who is the head of the Election Commission? Who appoints him?

(b) What is the term of the Election Commissioners? What happens in case there is a difference in opinion between the Election Commissioners?

(c) State any four functions of the Election Commission.

Suppose the Class Representative of your class is to be elected by means of single transferable vote through secret ballot. Write down the steps for election starting from filling the forms by those who want to stand for election till the final selection is made.

If you have to bring certain reforms in the system of elections to Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha in States, which ones would you like to introduce and why?