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    India has regular, democratic elections at the national, state, and local levels to determine the composition of government. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India according to the constitution and electoral laws. Elections in India are a massive organizational undertaking, as the country has over 800 million eligible voters who vote in about 700,000 polling stations across varied terrain. The 2014 general election was the largest democratic election in world history.

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    India has regular, democratic elections at the national, state, and local levels to determine the composition of government. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India according to the constitution and electoral laws. Elections in India are a massive organizational undertaking, as the country has over 800 million eligible voters who vote in about 700,000 polling stations across varied terrain. The 2014 general election was the largest democratic election in world history.

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    India has regular, democratic elections at the national, state, and local levels to determine the composition of government. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India according to the constitution and electoral laws. Elections in India are a massive organizational undertaking, as the country has over 800 million eligible voters who vote in about 700,000 polling stations across varied terrain. The 2014 general election was the largest democratic election in world history.

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    Electoral Process in India

    S. Manikandan
    • India has an asymmetric federal government,
    with elected officials at the federal, state and
    local levels. At the national level, the head of
    government, Prime Minister, is elected by
    members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of
    the parliament of India. The elections are
    conducted by the Election Commission of
    India.
    The Function of Electoral System
    Introduction
    • India is a constitutional democracy with a
    parliamentary system of government, and at
    the heart of the system is a commitment to
    hold regular, free and fair elections.
    • These elections determine the composition of
    the government, the membership of the two
    houses of parliament, the state and union
    territory legislative assemblies, and the
    Presidency and vice-presidency.
    Cont…
    • Elections are conducted according to the constitutional
    provisions, supplemented by laws made by Parliament.
    • The major laws are Representation of the People Act,
    1950, which mainly deals with the preparation and
    revision of electoral rolls, the Representation of the
    People Act, 1951 which deals, in detail, with all aspects
    of conduct of elections and post election disputes.
    • The Supreme Court of India has held that where the
    enacted laws are silent or make insufficient provision
    to deal with a given situation in the conduct of
    elections, the Election Commission has the residuary
    powers under the Constitution to act in an appropriate
    manner.
    Elections in India -Scale of Operation

    • Elections in India are events involving political


    mobilisation and organisational complexity on
    an amazing scale.
    • A vast number of civilian police and security
    forces were deployed to ensure that the
    elections were carried out peacefully.
    Cont…
    • Conduct of General Elections in India for electing a
    new Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
    involves management of the largest event in the
    world.
    • The electorate exceeds 670 (80 cr.)million electors
    in about 7,00,000 polling stations spread across
    widely varying geographic and climatic zones.
    • Polling stations are located in the snow-clad
    mountains in the Himalayas, the deserts of the
    Rajasthan and in sparsely populated islands in the
    Indian Ocean.
    Cont…
    • The Indian general election of 2014 was held to constitute
    the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all
    543 parliamentary constituencies of India. Running in nine
    phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014, it was the longest
    election in the country's history. According to the Election
    Commission of India, 814.5 million people were eligible to
    vote, with an increase of 100 million voters since the last
    general election in 2009, making it the largest-ever election
    in the world.
    • Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters
    were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates
    contested for the 543 Lok Sabha seats. The average
    election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.38%,
    the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.
    Constituencies & Reservation of Seats

    • The country has been divided into 543


    Parliamentary Constituencies, each of which
    returns one MP to the Lok Sabha, the lower house
    of the Parliament.
    • The size and shape of the parliamentary
    constituencies are determined by an independent
    Delimitation Commission, which aims to create
    constituencies which have roughly the same
    population, subject to geographical
    considerations and the boundaries of the states
    and administrative areas.

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