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This book aims to provide an exhaustive survey of research works carried out so far in the field of electoral geography. Unraveling potential areas for research in this field in India, it explains the meaning and evolution of electoral geography and presents a succinct summary of various approaches being adopted by different scholars.

It further provides guidance to the young scholars as to how to carry out research in electoral geography through ‘arealecological approach’. Major socio-economic determinants in the Indian federal polity have also been identified on the basis of a case study pertaining to the north-east Rajasthan in terms of Lok Sabha elections in 1991 and 1998 as well as the Assembly elections in 1993 and 1998. Spatial patterns of electoral support for Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party and the broad nature of socio-economic base of each party have been identified as well.