In RK School, each class has about thirty children. Each class has a class monitor who is selected by all the students through an election.
All the class monitors make up the school council. All students take their problems to the council. The council then represents them to the teachers or principal.
In class 6, however, Sections A and B only have 15 children each.
If we follow the school’s method, then the monitors of sections A and B will represent only 15 children each. This is not fair. So, the principal decided that the voting for sections A and B will be held jointly and they will have one monitor.
This ensured that every monitor represents about thirty children, with some acceptable variation.
This is how democracy also works.
Constituencies are units of voting.
They are not the same as districts, villages, etc. Village, block, district, are units of administration. Now, one district may be smaller than the others, but the units of voting have to be more or less similar.
Therefore, constituencies are drawn up based on population.
They are drawn up differently for each level of election – Panchayat or Municipal election wards, State Assembly constituency, and the largest are the Lok Sabha constituencies.
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