India's general election: Sailent features

Indias general election: Sailent features
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Main features of the April-May Lok Sabha election 2014

Main features of the April-May Lok Sabha election 2014:

  1. Electorate: 814 million (100 million more than the 2009 election)
  2. Constituencies: 543 (Two Anglo-Indians are nominated by the president)
  3. Nine-day process starts April 7, ends May 12
  4. Spread across 28 states, seven union territories
  5. Simultaneous assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim
  6. Polling stations: 930,000
  7. Entire election process through electronic voting machines (EVMs)
  8. Election to be supervised by 11 million officials
Vote count and result: May 16
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