Voting: How do you decide?

By Team HNN

One of the great spectacles of the world - elections to the parliament of the world's largest democracy - is just about to get under way. It is by far and away the most elaborate excercise in franchise anywhere in the world. During the next month, 700+ million voters will have a chance to cast their ballots, with the contest apparently evenly poised between the two largest coaltions and a fresh avatar of the Third Front. And a dizzying array of goodies have been dangled before the voters.

But how exactly do voters make their choices? What about you? How do you decide who to vote for? Are you swayed by promises of freebies from the parties? Lower taxes? Secularism? Infrastructure? Privatisation? Are you a single issue voter, or do you balance a range of interests in deciding who to vote for? Do you vote for the party, or the candidate? And after the election, do you have any further control over governance? How do you really make yourself count in this great dance?

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