{"id":87413,"date":"2025-06-01T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?p=87413"},"modified":"2025-06-01T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:42:40","slug":"the-election-commission-recognizes-a-political-party-as-a-national-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/the-election-commission-recognizes-a-political-party-as-a-national-par\/","title":{"rendered":"The Election Commission recognizes a political party as a national par"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission recognizes a political party as a national party if<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. it secures at least six percent of the total valid votes polled in four or more States in a general election to the Lok Sabha or to the State Legislative Assemblies.<\/li>\n<li>2. it wins at least four seats in a general election to the Lok Sabha from any State or States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Select the correct answer using the code given below:<\/p>\n<p>[amp_mcq option1=&#8221;1 only&#8221; option2=&#8221;2 only&#8221; option3=&#8221;Both 1 and 2&#8243; option4=&#8221;Neither 1 nor 2&#8243; correct=&#8221;option3&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"psc-box-pyq-exam-year-detail\">\n<div class=\"pyq-exam\">\n<div class=\"psc-heading\">This question was previously asked in<\/div>\n<div class=\"psc-title line-ellipsis\">UPSC NDA-1 &#8211; 2016<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pyq-exam-psc-buttons\"><a href=\"\/pyq\/pyq-upsc-nda-1-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"psc-pdf-button\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><a href=\"\/pyq-upsc-nda-1-2016\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"psc-attempt-button\" rel=\"noopener\">Attempt Online<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"pyq-correct-answer\">\nOption C is correct because the first criterion for a political party to be recognized as a National Party by the Election Commission of India requires fulfilling both conditions mentioned in statement 1 and statement 2 simultaneously.<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"pyq-key-points\">\n&#8211; Statement 1 describes securing at least six percent of the total valid votes polled in four or more States in a general election to the Lok Sabha or to the State Legislative Assemblies.<br \/>\n&#8211; Statement 2 describes winning at least four seats in a general election to the Lok Sabha from any State or States.<br \/>\n&#8211; According to Election Commission rules, one of the ways to be recognised as a National Party is to meet both the condition in statement 1 AND the condition in statement 2 (Criterion 1: 6% vote share in 4+ states + 4 LS seats).<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"pyq-additional-information\">\nThere are other criteria for National Party recognition as well:<br \/>\n&#8211; Winning at least two percent of the total seats in the Lok Sabha (currently 11 seats) from at least three different States.<br \/>\n&#8211; Being recognised as a State party in at least four States.<br \/>\nThe question focuses specifically on the first criterion as broken down into the two statements.<br \/>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission recognizes a political party as a national party if 1. it secures at least six percent of the total valid votes polled in four or more States in a general election to the Lok Sabha or to the State Legislative Assemblies. 2. it wins at least four seats in a general election &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Election Commission recognizes a political party as a national par\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/the-election-commission-recognizes-a-political-party-as-a-national-par\/#more-87413\">Detailed Solution<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Election Commission recognizes a political party as a national par<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093],"tags":[1098,1099,1411],"class_list":["post-87413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc-nda-1","tag-1098","tag-indian-polity-and-governance","tag-political-parties","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - 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