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Elections & voting fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

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FACTLYElections & voting

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy exposes the Gujarat election EVM fraud 2022; He doubts the authenticity of EVMs

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim links a video of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy questioning electronic voting machines to the recent Gujarat election results in 2022, presenting it as his exposure of alleged election fraud. FACTLY’s review says the speech in the viral clip was not a post-election statement: it had been available on YouTube since April 2012. The review identifies the mismatch as the clip’s age and its later presentation as a response to the Gujarat elections. [S1]

YouturnElections & voting

குஜராத்தில் பாஜக தோல்விக்கு காரணமாக இருக்கப் போவது அங்குள்ள தமிழர்கள். தமிழர்களால் பாஜக துடைத்து எறியப்பட்டது என்று வரலாறு சொல்லும். இதையும் மீறி குஜராத்தில் பாஜக வெற்றி பெற்றால், இந்த நாடு எக்கேடு கெட்டு போகட்டும் என்று, நான் தண்டவாளத்தில் தலையை வைத்து தற்கொலை செய்வேன்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACTLYElections & voting

BJP has won the MCD 2022 election by securing 154 seats out of 250, whereas AAP and INC got 87 & 08 seats respectively

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a video shared after the 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) election that said the BJP had won 154 of 250 seats, with AAP on 87 and INC on 08. FACTLY’s review compares those figures with results it attributes to the Delhi State Election Commission. It reports that the official figures were AAP 134, BJP 104, INC 09 and Others 03—not the totals stated in the claim. The figures add up to all 250 seats, and the BJP total is 50 below the claimed figure. The review distinguishes between the video’s account of initial leads and the definitive result it presented to viewers. It says the video discussed initial leads, but its title, description and thumbnail said that BJP had won 154 seats. That distinction matters: the review does not treat a lead during counting as the final seat tally. On the reported final results, AAP won the most seats, while BJP came second. As a further account of its check, FACTLY says it consulted official data available on the Delhi State Election Commission’s “Nigam Chunav Delhi” app and that media outlets reported the same figures. The supplied excerpt does not name those outlets or reproduce the app’s underlying record, so the specific result figures and the review’s description of its verification are what the evidence supports. The review concludes that presenting 154 as BJP’s winning total was misleading.

Fact CrescendoElections & voting

കേരളത്തിലെ ബിജെപിയുടെ ഒരു സീറ്റ് പോലും നഷ്ടപ്പെടുത്താന്‍ സിപിഎമ്മിന് കഴിയില്ല.. വെല്ലുവിളിയുമായി കെ.സുരേന്ദ്രന്‍ എന്ന തലക്കെട്ട് നല്‍കിയ റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ടര്‍ ചാനല്‍ നല്‍കിയ വാര്‍ത്ത

Publisher’s rating: FALSE