Definitions

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires – (a) “candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate for any election; (b) “constituency” means an area of a Panchayat or a Municipality delimited as a constituency for the purpose of elections to these bodies; (c) "costs” means all costs, charges and expenses of, or incidental to the proceedings in an election petition; (d) “disqualified" means disqualified for being chosen as a member of a Panchayat or a Municipality; (e) "District Planning Committee" means the committee constituted under article 243 ZD of the Constitution of India; (f) “Election Commission" means the Election Commission constituted under section 3; (g) "Election Commissioner” means the Election Commissioner appointed under section 4; (h) "elector" in relation to a constituency means a person whose name is entered in the electoral roll of that constituency for the time being in force and who is not subject to any of the disqualifications specified in section 11; (i) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand or not to stand as, or to withdraw or not to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election;