1 / 8The Election Commission is a constitutional body in India that is in charge of election administration. It was founded on January 25, 1950, and has its headquarters in New Delhi. It oversees Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, state Legislative Assemblies, and state Legislative Council elections.
2 / 8The visual emblem assists the vast majority of illiterate voters in determining which party to vote for. A symbol granted to a national party may not be used by any other party in the country.
3 / 8A reserved symbol is exclusive to the recognised political parity and its contending candidates.
4 / 8A symbol assigned to a national party may not be used by any other party in the country. A symbol allocated to one state party can be assigned to a different state party in another state.
5 / 8As electoral symbols, immediately recognisable real-world creatures, objects, or artefacts such as an elephant's head, a hand (Indian National Congress), an arrow, and so on are adopted.
6 / 8A party that loses its recognition does not automatically lose its emblem. A party that is not recognised in the current election but was a recognised national or state party no more than six years prior to the date of notice of the election may be assigned its reserved symbol.
7 / 8In case of a split, it is up to the EC to decide which faction represents the original party.
8 / 8The EC had prohibited both Shiv Sena factions from using the party name and its 'bow and arrow' electoral emblem in the November 3 Andheri East assembly bypolls.
