Which of the following disciplines of social sciences has the closest interface with electoral geography?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Psephology
Option (1) Sociology — Incorrect. Sociology is the sister discipline of social geography and of the geography of leisure.
Option (2) Political Science — Incorrect. Political science is the sister discipline of political geography as a whole. Within it, electoral geography has a closer link with a narrower discipline.
Option (3) Psephology — Correct. The table of sub-fields pairs electoral geography with psephology, the study of elections and voting.
Option (4) Demography — Incorrect. Demography, the study of population, is the sister discipline of population geography.
NCERT (2025-26): “Fields and Sub-fields of Human Geography … Human geography, as you have seen, attempts to explain the relationship between all elements of human life and the space they occur over. Thus, human geography assumes a highly inter-disciplinary nature. It develops close interface with other sister disciplines in social sciences in order to understand and explain human elements on the surface of the earth. With the expansion of knowledge, new sub-fields emerge and it has also happened to human geography. Let us examine these fields and sub-fields of Human Geography (Table 1.2).”
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