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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,414 published reviews in this topic

Vishvas NewsElections & voting

এখন প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদী এবং স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী অমিত শাহের একটি পুরানো ছবিকে বাংলার নির্বাচনের নামে ভাইরাল করা হচ্ছে। এই ছবিতে উভয় বিজেপি নেতাকে মুসলিম সম্প্রদায়ের অন্তর্ভুক্ত টুপি পরিহিতভাবে দেখানো হয়েছে।

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYElections & voting

Photo of PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah wearing Islamic skull caps ahead of West Bengal assembly elections

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a photo said to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah wearing Islamic skull caps, presented as a BJP tactic to attract minority votes before the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections. FACTLY’s review says the image circulating with that claim was altered: the original photograph shows the two men without skull caps, and the photograph was taken as they left the late Arun Jaitley’s residence in New Delhi. The review also states that the image had nothing to do with the West Bengal election. To trace the image, the review describes a reverse-image search that found a visually similar photograph in a News18 article dated 28 August 2019. Its caption identified Modi and Shah leaving after paying condolences to the family of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at the family’s residence in New Delhi. The review says the original photograph also appeared in other 2019 news articles and on Getty Images with a similar description. Together, the original image’s lack of skull caps and its documented 2019 setting contradict the circulated image and its election-related framing.

FACTLYElections & voting

Image of IPAC survey showing Mamata Banerjee losing in Nandigram

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns an image circulated as an IPAC survey report showing Mamata Banerjee losing in Nandigram during the 2021 West Bengal assembly election. FACTLY says the image was not an IPAC survey report and reports that IPAC publicly rejected it as fake. Its account identifies an IPAC tweet dated 31 March 2021, which accused the BJP’s West Bengal unit of circulating fake surveys in IPAC’s name. The post’s claim that the image was an IPAC survey is therefore contradicted by the organization identified as its purported source. FACTLY also reports that Pratik Jain, IPAC’s co-founder and director, quote-tweeted the organization’s post and pointed out that his name was misspelled in the purported survey. This is a specific discrepancy in the document, alongside IPAC’s direct denial; the excerpt does not provide further details about how the image was created or independently authenticate its origin. The review mentions a separate response from the Trinamool Congress’s official account on 29 March 2021, which called another purported IPAC survey predicting Banerjee’s defeat in Nandigram fake. That separate document is corroborating context, not the same image: the review distinguishes it from the image at issue. Its conclusion about the claimed image rests on IPAC’s denial and the reported name-spelling error.

FACTLYElections & voting

Photo of the empty chairs at a BJP election meeting in West Bengal

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim identifies photos of empty chairs as showing a BJP election meeting in West Bengal. FACTLY’s review says the post combined images showing empty chairs with images of BJP leaders Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath, and investigated whether those visuals came from the West Bengal election meetings. Its conclusion is that the photos instead relate to an earlier BJP program in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

FACTLYElections & voting

https://factly.in/the-person-in-these-election-rally-photos-is-m-k-stalin-dmk-not-rahul-gandhi-congress/

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned photos shared as showing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi being welcomed by people in Tamil Nadu, amid the state’s approaching 6 April 2021 Assembly elections. FACTLY’s review identifies the person shown as M. K. Stalin, the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and places the photos at a Tamil Nadu election rally on 19 March 2021. The review says Gandhi was not at that rally.

dpaElections & voting

D66 vierde de de verkiezingsuitslag al overdag.

Publisher’s rating: Er klopt werkelijk niets van dat verhaal. Het is onmogelijk om op basis van de afbeelding met zekerheid te beweren dat er daglicht was. Ook wees verder onderzoek uit dat het licht uit tl-lampen van de bijna aangrenzende keuken komt. Bovendien bevat het betreffende gedeelte van de gang van het Landelijk Bureau in Den Haag geen ramen. Verschillende media waren (beneden) aanwezig om de partijtop te interviewen na de bekendmaking van de resultaten.

dpaElections & voting

Officiële exitpoll van De Derde Kamer zette PVV een uur voor sluiten stembussen nog op 29 zetels. Er is gefraudeerd.

Publisher’s rating: De bewering dat de verkiezingsuitslag niet kan kloppen is onzin. De exitpolls van De Derde Kamer zijn niet betrouwbaar en kunnen dus ook niet als bewijs voor verkiezingsfraude dienen. Het account is niet open over zijn methode. Het is dus niet duidelijk hoe De Derde Kamer tot deze cijfers kwam en hoe groot hun onderzoek was. Er is tot op heden geen bewijs gevonden voor verkiezingsfraude.