Indian Penal Code : "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Penal Code,1860

Act No : 45

Section : "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined.

171A. "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined.--For the purposesof this Chapter- 2*[(a) "candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;] (b) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.