Decoding the personality of rural leadership: a case from Indian gram Panchayat election

Numerous studies have shown significant connections between voter personality factors and voting preferences. Few studies have also broadened their scope to explore the impact of politicians' success and failure on their personalities. Our study is one of the first of its type to address the gap in understanding personality trait variability among Gram Panchayat candidates in rural democratic elections. The big five personality model was used to discover the attributes that might signify the difference between winning and losing in a recent rural democratic election. We focused our inquiry on the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. We have use ten item personality inventory (TIPI) approach to collect personality traits from contested candidates who were classified as either 'winner' or 'runner-up'. The discriminant function was significant, with high loadings on extraversion, agreeableness, and consciousness, emotional stability being modest among the Gram Panchayat election candidates. only openness to experience revealed negative loadings.