The Election Commission has announced the Lok Sabha elections 2024. This time voting will be conducted in phases in Jharkhand. Last time, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, voting was conducted in 4 phases in Jharkhand. Voting was held in 7 phases across the country at that time. Voting was held separately for the sole Vellore parliamentary seat on August 5. Let us take a look at the facts related to the elections held in the year 2019.
90.87 crore voters were registered in Lok Sabha elections 2019. That means so many people were authorized to vote. Voting was done in 7 phases. The first phase of voting was held on 11 April 2019 and the last phase of voting was held on 19 May 2019.
For voting in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, the Election Commission had deployed 1.2 crore polling officials to ensure smooth elections.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 66.79 percent women voters exercised their franchise. This is a record in itself. This was the largest participation of women in the elections held so far.
The Election Commission had separately spent Rs 22.80 lakh to enable government employees to vote in the Lok Sabha elections 2019. This amount was spent on printing postal ballots.
A large number of polling stations are set up so that about 91 crore people can exercise their franchise comfortably. In the Lok Sabha elections 2019, the Election Commission had created 10 lakh polling stations, where people voted.
Parliamentary elections are held in India once in 5 years. Voting is conducted on 543 seats. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, voting was held only on 542 Lok Sabha seats. Voting for this was done in 7 phases. Voting was held separately for Vellore seat on August 5.
Out of approximately 91 crore voters registered in India, only 61.3 crore voters had exercised their democratic right.
Highest voting took place in Lok Sabha elections 2019. In this year’s Lok Sabha elections, 67.47 percent voters went to the polling stations and got blue ink applied on their fingers. That means you voted.