Sometimes even just ‘1’ vote will matter a lot. Based on Assembly elections data from 1962 till now (taken from TCPD), 7 MLAs won with a margin of only ‘1’ vote. It means 7 people who could have become MLAs did not because someone from their kith and kin would not have taken voting very seriously and simply skipped voting in the election.

I can just imagine the situation of people belonging to the person who lost the elections, who didn’t vote thinking their candidate will surely win anyway.