India's Final Electorate is 81.5 crore, big jump from last election in 2009

India’s electorate for the upcoming general election will be 81.5 crore, summary revision data released by the Election Commission shows. The electorate is now nearly five times what it was when India first voted, over 60 years ago in 1951

The electorate grew by 64 % over the last 20 years even while the overall population grew by just 43 %

The electorate has grown at double the pace between the last general election and the present one than it had between 2004 and 2009.

The EC has added nearly 10 crore new voters to the rolls between 2009 and 2014, one of the largest-ever such increases between two elections

Census data shows that roughly 83.3 crore people are 18 years and above in 2014, the EC would seem to have achieved the incredible registration rate of enrolling 98 % of eligible voters.