If the turnout of women voters is less than 10% of the total votes polled in the constituency, ECP may presume that women have been restrained through an agreement from casting their votes and may declare polling at one or more polling stations, or election in the whole constituency void.

Related Mcqs:

1. If the turnout of women voters is less than ___________ of the total votes polled in a constituency, the Commission may presume that the women voters have been restrained through an agreement from casting their votes :

   A. 10%
   B. 20%
   C. 30%
   D. None of these

2. ECP shall prepare a gender disaggregated statement of voters showing the total number of votes cast by men and women voters at the polling station.

   A. Section 43
   B. Section 78
   C. Section 64
   D. Section 91

3. If the victory margin between the returned candidate and runner-up candidate is less than 5% of the total votes polled or 10,000 votes, whichever is less, the Returning Officer shall recount all the votes on the request of a contesting candidate before commencement of the consolidation of the results.

   A. Section 78
   B. Section 95
   C. Section 45
   D. Section 89

4. ECP shall annually publish disaggregated data of registered men and women voters in each National Assembly and Provincial Assembly constituency highlighting the difference in number of registered men and women voters.

   A. Section 47
   B. Section 49
   C. Section 77
   D. Section 98

5. If a candidate, not being the returned candidate, obtains less than one-fourth of the total votes polled in the constituency, the sum deposited by him or on his behalf shall stand forfeited in favour of the Government.

   A. Section 61
   B. Section 65
   C. Section 75
   D. Section 69

6. ECP may conduct pilot projects for utilization of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and biometric voters’ identification system in bye-elections in addition to the existing manual procedures for voter verification, casting and counting of votes to assess their technical efficacy, secrecy, security and financial feasibility.

   A. Section 103
   B. Section 109
   C. Section 119
   D. Section 145

7. A deposit may become non-refundable if a candidate obtain votes less than_________ of total votes cast in a constituency

   A. 1/4
   B. 1/3
   C. 1/2
   D. none of the above

8. The ECP may, in consultation with political parties, frame a Code of Conduct for political parties , contesting candidates, election agents and polling agents. The Commission may also frame a Code of Conduct for security personnel, media and election observers.

   A. Section 233
   B. Section 235
   C. Section 243
   D. Section 238

9. On the application of a candidate or his election agent, the District Election Commissioner or any officer authorized in this behalf by the ECP shall provide to a candidate or an election agent a hard and searchable soft copy on a universal serial bus (USB) in portable document format (PDF) or any other tamper-proof format of the final electoral roll with photographs of the voters and shall ensure that the copy is the same as provided to the Returning Officer and Presiding Officers.

   A. Section 87
   B. Section 134
   C. Section 37
   D. Section 79

10. If the variation in the number of men and women voters in a constituency is more than 10% special measures will be taken by ECP to reduce such variation.

    A. Section 67
    B. Section 38
    C. Section 74
    D. Section 47