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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,415 published reviews in this topic

NewtralElections & voting

La lista de candidatos por Salt (Girona) de Podemos

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a circulated image of a candidate list for Salt, Girona, presented as Podemos’s slate for the municipal elections on 26 May 2019. Newtral reports that the image showed candidates for UNIDOS-SI, not Podemos. It distinguishes the authenticity of the document image from the attribution attached to it: the image was genuine, but it was being shared with messages claiming the names belonged to Podemos. The decisive evidence was the Girona Provincial Official Gazette’s published candidate lists. Newtral says the list shown in the image appears on page 149 under UNIDOS-SI, identified as candidacy number 6. The following page contains Podemos’s own candidate list, identified as candidacy number 9. Newtral also reports asking Podemos Girona about any connection between the two parties; Podemos Girona denied a link. Together, the document’s party labels and the party’s response address the specific attribution at issue.

Vishvas NewsElections & voting

ਲੋਕ ਸਭਾ ਚੋਣਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਵੋਟ ਦੇਣ ਨਹੀਂ ਗਏ ਤਾਂ ਬੈਂਕ ਅਕਾਊਂਟ ਤੋਂ ਕੱਟਣਗੇ 350 ਰੁਪਏ।” ਨਿਊਜ਼ ਪੇਪਰ ਦੀ ਕਲਿੱਪ ਦੀ ਹੈੱਡਲਾਈਨ ਵੀ ਇਹੀ ਹੈ। ਕਈ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਸਟੋਰੀ ਨੂੰ ਸੱਚ ਮੰਨਦੇ ਹੋਏ ਆਪਣੇ ਪੇਜ਼ ‘ਤੇ ਪੋਸਟ ਕੀਤਾ।

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYElections & voting

Congress is contesting only 230 out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Hence it is not contesting to form the government.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim combined two assertions: that Congress was contesting just 230 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats, and that this meant it was not contesting to form the government. FACTLY’s review says it checked the party’s official website and its list of candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The review reports that the list showed candidates announced for 424 seats at the time of its check. That count contradicts the claim’s figure of 230: the review found Congress had announced candidates for substantially more constituencies. It therefore concluded that the claim about Congress contesting only 230 seats was false. The evidence described in the review concerns announced candidates; it does not independently establish Congress’s intentions about forming a government, so that broader inference should not be treated as a separately verified fact. The review’s conclusion rests on the candidate list as it stood when checked. It reports a tally of 424 seats “so far,” rather than establishing a final count of all seats Congress would contest. Its evidence directly addresses the numerical premise of the viral claim, while the stated conclusion is about that claim as presented.