Consider the table given below providing some details of the results of the election to the Karnataka State Legislative: Assembly held in December, 1994. Political Party Percentage of popular votes obtained. Number of seats secured Janata Dal 36 116 Congress 31 35 BJP 20.4 40 In terms of electoral analysis, the voter-seat distortion is to be explained as the result of the adoption of the
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(a)Hare system
(b)Cumulative vote system
(c)First-past-the-post system
(d)Plural vote system
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