Article: Decoding the personality of rural leadership: a case from Indian gram Panchayat election Journal: International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies (IJHRCS) 2026 Vol.13 No.1 pp.69 - 82 Abstract: 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. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

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

Authors: Chandra Prakash; Sunita Dwivedi; T.R. Anandan

Addresses: Symbiosis Center for Research Innovation, Symbiosis International University, Lavale , Pune Maharashtra, India; R&D Cell Sri Balaji University, Banglore bypass Tathawade Pune, Maharashtra, India ' Symbiosis Center of Management Studies, Sector 62, Noida Uttar Pradesh, India ' Symbiosis Center for Research Innovation, Symbiosis International University, Lavale, Pune Maharashtra, India

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: personality traits; rural Panchayat election; rural politics; rural leader; political psychology; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2026.150551

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2026 Vol.13 No.1, pp.69 - 82

Received: 18 Jan 2024
Accepted: 14 May 2024
Published online: 17 Dec 2025 *

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