Elections for the 16th Lok Sabha elections will be held in nine phases, the highest so far, between April 7 and May 12 and involve an electorate of 81.4 crore, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday March 05,2014
Counting of votes in all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies will be held on a single day on May 16, Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath announced at a press conference where he was flanked by the other two election commisioners HS Brahma and SNA Zaidi.
Assembly elections will also be held simultaneously in the states of Andhra Pradesh, including Telangana region, Odisha and Sikkim.
India is now in the election mode and the largest democratic exercise in the world is a work in progress.
From the first date of polling April 07,2014 up to the date of counting May 16,2014 the country will see 9 dates of polling -April 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 24, 30, May 7 and May 12
The largest chunk of 122 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls in 13 states on April 17, the fifth day of poll, while the sixth day will witness polling in 117 seats in 12 states on April 24. The seventh day of polling on April 30 will choose representatives in 89 constituencies spread over nine states and the eighth day on May 7 will cover 64 seats in seven states.
Polling will conclude on the ninth day on May 12 with elections in 41 constituencies in three states.
The actual counting of votes on May 16,2014 of nearly 500 million voters (assuming that 60% of those on voters' list will vote) will miraculously be completed in a single day - thanks to our EVMs.
Results of the electoral exercise will lead to an orderly transfer of power that has been the hallmark of our democracy.
With almost 10 crore new voters added to the 70 crore plus voters on the rolls for the general election 2009, this becomes undisputedly the largest management exercise in the world.
Those who had attained the age of 18 as of 1st January in any year would be eligible to enter their names on the list.
To help eliminate bogus voting even further, every name was now accompanied on the polling list with a photo of the voter.
As many as 580 million voter identity cards were successfully distributed, covering 82 % of the population.
Secondly, the EC had by 2007, perfected a system of special enrollment of pockets of people who had curiously been left out of the electoral process altogether.
The EC called this exercise 'Vulnerability Mapping'.
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