Polls are being conducted in Bihar, India’s fourth-largest electoral state, but Indians appear to be more interested in the US presidential elections.
The deepest interest of the largest democracy in the oldest one, the US, is reflected in Google Trends. It is in tune with the global focus on the presidential election given the American influence on world affairs.
When the count began in the US on November 3 ET (early morning of November 4 in India), Google Trends showed that the “US Election Results” They topped the search lists with more than 5 million views. He surpassed “Arnab Goswami” the day the police arrested India’s most talked-about television personality after reopening a suicide incitement case against him. Goswami’s arrest made headlines and generated more than 3 million Internet searches.
Throughout November 4, “US Elections” and “2020 US Election Result” accounted for more than one million individual searches on the Internet. They secured third and fourth place among chartthrobs in India.
The United States, home to 3.8 million American Indians, has come a long way since the Cold War era to become one of India’s strongest allies, especially in the past two decades.
In a WhatsApp group from a Ghaziabad housing society, residents took a break from the usual chat about pollution and Diwali advisories to discuss the battle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
As the complex counting process has continued, advertising has also dropped considerably. But there are still more people looking for American surveys than Bihar. Internet searches related to Joe Biden, now on the verge of becoming the next president of the United States, spiked from 7:30 a.m. on November 4 to peak the next day.
The data shows that, as results began rolling in on the morning of November 5, out of 100 searches in India on Google, 34 were on Biden and 14 on Bihar.
But as the exhaustive count dragged on, Bihar got 16 searches for every 21 US election results.
Analysts believe the search for Biden, Trump, and US polls will skyrocket again once the results are finally declared and the Americans get their 46th president.
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