{"id":9758,"date":"2022-10-09T03:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:45:58","slug":"election-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/election-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As per the\u00a0Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968,\u00a0the Election Commission allots symbols for anyone contesting in polls.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A person contesting on behalf of a recognised political party\u00a0will inherit the party&#8217;s symbol.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>An independent candidate or someone contesting on behalf of an unrecognised political party\u00a0has to approach the Commission and get a symbol allotted from the list of &#8216;free&#8217; symbols available.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>A candidate will have to provide three symbols from the free list at the time of submission of nomination papers, one of which will be allocated to him\/her.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Any choice other than from the EC&#8217;s list will be summarily rejected.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the case of a recognised political party,\u00a0the Commission allows it to &#8216;reserve&#8217; a symbol.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>For example, if a political party recognised in a particular State wishes to contest in elections in another State, it can &#8216;reserve&#8217; the symbol being used by it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Commission will oblige, provided the symbol is not being used by anyone else.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Two or more recognised political parties can have the same symbol provided they are not contenders in the same State or Union Territory.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>Both Federal Party of Manipur and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) use &#8216;Rising Sun&#8217; as their symbol.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>But if one of the parties wish to open their account in the other State, it will have to contest on a different symbol.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Losing the symbol?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ECI may also derecognise a political party if it has not polled at least 6 % of votes or won two seats in the State elections. In case of a national party, it should have polled minimum 6 % votes and 2 MLAs in at least four States.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Until 1997, unrecognised parties would lose their symbols. Later, the EC modified its order to allow them to retain its symbol.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Party split:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In case a recognised political party splits, the Commission decides which faction can use the symbol.<\/li>\n<li>The Commission may also choose to freeze the symbol and ask both factions to contest in fresh symbols.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=EC-freezes-Shiv-Sena%26%2339%3bs-%e2%80%98bow-%26-arrow%e2%80%99-symbol%3b-asks-Eknath-Shinde-%26-Uddhav-Thackeray-camps-to-choose-new-symbol&amp;id=449057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body administers elections to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}