Dear CAs in industry, just 3000 votes can elect a ICAI Central Council Member from Western Region

I have often felt that members in service despite constituting 52% of the overall members of ICAI, are not adequately represented on the ICAI Central Council. I decided to delve deeper into the 2015 election results to see why this is so.

I noticed that the Western region with 88000 members saw a 44% turnout for 11 seats, thereby needing 3230 votes(total of first preference and others). This represents merely 3.7% of the total members, or 6.5% of members in practice! Imagine the power of CAs in industry, if they turnout to elect, even taking the 40% turnout, they can combine and ensure that around 5-6 members of their choice are elected from WIRC.

Also, if we notice the votes secured by the 11 finally elected members, we notice that 6 members obtained merely between 50%-65% of the required votes on the first ballot, with remaining votes via 2nd/other preferences. Therefore, there is still hope for those who marshall above 1600 votes on the first preference ballot. 

Member Finally Elected	1st preference votes	1st Pref as % of threshold
BHANDARI ANIL	1692	52%
CHHAIRA JAY AJIT	2685	83%
CHHAJED PRAFULLA	1666	52%
GHIA TARUN JAMNADAS	2083	64%
HEGDE NANDKISHORE	2558	79%
JAMBUSARIA NIHAR NIRANJAN	2058	64%
KHANDELWAL DHIRAJ KUMAR	1683	52%
KINARE MANGESH PANDURANG	1603	50%
SHAH DHINAL ASHVINBHAI	2925	91%
VIKAMSEY NILESH SHIVJI	3112	96%
ZAWARE SHIWAJI BHIKAJI	3264	101%
Others tranasfer
Others voters	13433
Votes lost
	38762