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Lok Sabha General Election 2019

Lok Sabha General Election 2019 in India was announced by the Election Commission of Indian on March 10, 2019 to constitute 17th Lok Sabha to be constituted before the expiry of the 16th Lok Sabha on June 4. The fist meeting of the first session of the Sixteenth Lok Sabha was held five years ago on June 4. According to the Constitution of India the Lok Sabha continues for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer, as the expiration of the period of five years operates as a dissolution of the House.

Election Schedule

Elections for 543 Lok Sabha Constituencies in 36 States and Union Territories were held in seven phases from April 11 and ending on May 19.

PhasesDateConstituencies
IApril 1191 - Anadaman and Nocobar Islands; All constituencies of Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh; Tezpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugrh, and Lakhimpur of Assam; Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, and Jamui of Bihar; Bastar of Chhattisgarh; Baramula and Jammu of Jammu and Kashmir; Lakshadweep; Wardha, Ramtek, Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondiya, Gadchiroli-Chimur, Chandrapur, and Yavatmal-Washim of Maharashtra; Outer Manipur; All constituencies of Meghalaya; Mizoram; Nagaland; Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur, and Korapur of Odisha; Sikkim; All constituencies of Telangana; Tripura West; Saharnpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, and Gautam Buddha Nagar of Uttar Pradesh; All constituencies of Uttarakhand; Coochbehar and Alipurduars of West Bengal
IIApril 1897 - Karimganj, Silchar, Autonomous District, Mangaldoi, and Nawgong of Assam; Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Bhagalpur, and Banka of Bihar; Rajnandgaon, Mahasamand, and Kanker of Chhattisgarh; Srinagar and Udhampur of Jammu and Kashmir; Udupi Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Chamrajnagar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Chikkballapur, and Kolar of Karnataka; Buldhana, Akola, Amravati, Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, and Solapur of Maharashtra; Inner Manipur; Bargarh, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Kandhamal, and Aska of Odisha; Puducherry; All constituencies of Tamil Nadu; Tripura East; Nagina, Amroha, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, Agra, and Fatehpur Sikri of Uttar Pradesh; Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, and Raiganj of West Bengal
IIIApril 23115 - Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, and Gauhati of Assam; Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, and Khagaria of Bihar; Surguja, Raigarh, Janjgir-Champa, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg and Raipur of Chhattisgarh; Dadra and Nagar Haveli; Daman and Diu; All constituencies of Goa; All constituencies of Gujarat; Anantnag of Jammu and Kashmir; Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Bellari, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere, and Shimoga of Karnataka; All constituencies of Kerala; Jalgaon, Raver, Jalna, Aurangabad, Raigad, Pune, Baramati, Ahmednagar, Madha, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, and Hatkanangle of Maharashtra; Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Puri, and Bhubaneswar of Odisha; Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, and Pilibhit of Uttar Pradesh; Balurghat, Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, and Murshidabad of West Bengal
IVApril 2971 - Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, and Munger of Bihar; Anantnag of Jammu and Kashmir; Chatra, Lohardaga, and Palamu of Jharkhand; Sidhi, Shahdol, Jabalpur, Mandla, Balaghat, and Chhindwara of Madhya Pradesh; Nandurbar, Dhule, Dindori, Nashik, Palghar, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane, Mumbai North, Mumbai North-West, Mumbai North-East, Mumbai North-Central, Mumbai South-Central, Mumbai South, Maval, Shirur, and Shirdi of Maharashtra; Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, and Jagatsinghpur of Odisha; Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Pali, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Kota, and Jhalawar-Baran of Rajasthan; Shahjahanpur, Kheri, Hardoi, Misrikh, Unnao, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Kannauj, Kanpur, Akbarpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, and Hamirpur of Uttar Pradesh; Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman-Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, and Birbhum or West Bengal
VMay 651 - Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Mujaffarpur, Saran, and Hajipur of Bihar; Anantnag and Ladakh of Jammu and Kashmir; Kodarma, Ranchi, Khunti, and Hazaribagh of Jharkhand; Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Hoshangabad, and Betul of Madhya Pradesh; Ganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Jaipur Rural, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Karauli-Dholpur, Dausa, and Nagaur of Rajasthan; Dhauraha, Sitapur, Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Barabanki, Faizabad, Bahraich, Kaiserganj, and Gonda of Uttar Pradesh; Bangaon, Barrackpur, Howrah, Uluberia, Sreerampur, Hooghly, and Arambag of West Bengal
VIMay 1259 - Valmiki Nagar, Pashchim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, and Maharajganj of Bihar; All constituencies of Delhi; All constituencies of Haryana; Giridih, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, and Singhbhum of Jharkhand; Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, and Rajgarh of Madhya Pradesh; Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Phulpur, Allahabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Shrawasti, Domariyaganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Lalganj, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Macchlishahr, and Bhadohi of Uttar Pradesh; Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, and Bishnupur of West Bengal
VIIMay 1959 - Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, and Jahanabad of Bihar; Chandigarh; All constituencies of Himachal Pradesh; Rajmahal, Dumka, and Godda of Jharkhand; Dewas, Ujjain, Mandsour, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore, Khargone, and Khandwa of Madhya Pradesh; All constituencies of Punjab; Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushi Nagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, and Robertsganj of Uttar Pradesh; Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, and Kolkata Uttar of West Bengal


Statewise Poll dates

State/UTPCsApril 11April 18April 23April 29May 6May 12May 19
Andhra Pradesh 2525
Arunachal Pradesh 2 2
Assam 14 55 4
Bihar 40 4 5 5 5 58 8
Chhattisgarh 111 3 7
Goa 2 2
Gujarat 26 26
Haryana 10 10
Himachal Pradesh 4 4
Jammu & Kashmir (Poll of Anantnag to be held in 3 parts in Phase 3, Phase 4 & Phase 5) 62 2 1 1 2
Jharkhand 14 3 4 43
Karnataka 28 14 14
Kerala 20 20
Madhya Pradesh 29 6 7 88
Maharashtra 487 10 14 17
Manipur 2 11
Meghalaya 2 2
Mizoram 1 1
Nagaland 1 1
Odisha 214 5 6 6
Punjab 13 13
Rajasthan 25 1312
Sikkim 1 1
Tamil Nadu 39 39
Telangana 17 17
Tripura 2 11
Uttar Pradesh 80 8 810 13 14 14 13
Uttarakhand 55
West Bengal 422 3 5 87 8 9
A & N Islands 1 1
Chandigarh 1 1
Dadra & Nagar Haveli 1 1
Daman & Diu 1 1
Lakshadweep 11
NCT of Delhi 7 7
Puducherry 1 1
Total PCs 54391 97 115 71 51 59 59
No of States/UTs in each Poll Day 2013149778


Poll datesStates/UTs
Single poll date 22
Two poll dates 4
Three poll dates 2
Four poll dates 4
Five poll dates 1
Seven Poll dates 3


Poll Events

Poll EventsShedule IShedule IIShedule IIIShedule IVShedule VShedule VIShedule VII
Announcement & Issue of Press Note10 Mar 201910 Mar 201910 Mar 201910 Mar 201910 Mar 201910 Mar 201910 Mar 2019
Issue of Notification18 Mar 201919 Mar 201928 Mar 201902 Apr 201910 Apr 201916 Apr 201922 Apr 2019
Last Date for filing Nominations25 Mar 201926 Mar 201904 Apr 201909 Apr 201918 Apr 201923 Apr 201929 Apr 2019
Scrutiny of Nominations26 Mar 201927 Mar 201905 Apr 201910 Apr 201920 Apr 201924 Apr 201930 Apr 2019
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature28 Mar 201929 Mar 201908 Apr 201912 Apr 201922 Apr 201926 Apr 201902 May 2019
Date of Poll11 Apr 201918 Apr 201923 Apr 201929 Apr 201906 May 201912 May 201919 May 2019
Counting of Votes on23 May 201923 May 201923 May 201923 May 201923 May 201923 May 201923 May 2019
Date before which the election shall be Completed27 May 201927 May 201927 May 201927 May 201927 May 201927 May 201927 May 2019


Date of Counting - May 23, 2019

General Information

Vidhan Sabha Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim were also held along with Lok Sabha Elections. All citizens who had attained 18 years of age on January 1, 2019 and registered as voters were allowed to cast their votes. Such new eligible voters who were yet to be registered were given a chance to register before the date of filing nominations.

As per the final voter list or e-roll (electoral roll) as on January 1, 2019, there were approximately 900 million voters compared to 814.5 million in 2014. This marks an increase of more than 84 million electors. Over 15 million electors were in 18-19 years age group. Electors in the age group of 18 to 19 years constituted 1.66% of total electors. Commission allowed enrollment of transgender persons with gender written as "Others" in the electoral rolls since 2012. The number of electors enrolled as "Others" gender were 38,325. Parliament amended the Representation of the People Act, 1950, allowing enrollment of Indian citizens living overseas as electors. A total of 71,735 overseas electors were enrolled. There were 16,77,386 service electors in the electoral rolls.

The country had gone to polls with Photo Electoral Rolls for the first time in 2009. In that year the State of Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and Nagaland did not have Photo Electoral Rolls (PERs), and Elector Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) were not distributed to electors in Assam and Nagaland. Now, all the States and UTs have Photo Electoral Rolls (PERs). Photographs of 99.72% electors were already printed in the electoral rolls. 99.36% electors were given EPIC. 24 States and UTs, viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, NCT of Delhi, Puducherry, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal had photographs of 100% electors in the electoral rolls. 23 States and UTs had 100% EPIC coverage.

To ensure wholesome and constructive participation and active engagement of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in the election process, the Commission had directed to issue Accessible Photo Voter Slips with Braille Features to Persons with Visual Impairment or Blind, over and above normal Photo Voter Slips to be issued.

The Commission had decided to use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) alongwith Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at every polling station of all the States and Union Territories to enhance the transparency and credibility of the election process as VVPAT allows the voter to verify his/her vote.

There were 10.35 lakh polling stations which required 23.3 lakh BU, 16.35 lakh CU, and 17.4 lakh VVPAT units. Before actual use of EVMs and VVPATs at polling stations, mock polls were conducted on the machines three times. First, during the First Level Checking (FLC), each and every VVPAT was also subjected to a mock poll with 96 votes and the paper slip count were cross verified with the electronic count in the EVM. Furthermore, a mock poll in 5% randomly selected EVMs was done as follows i.e. 1% of EVMs with 1200 votes, in 2% of EVMs with 1000 votes and in 2% of EVMs with 500 votes was done using VVPATs. After the mock-poll, the printed ballot slips of each VVPAT printer were counted and the result was tallied with the electronic result of Control Unit. The tally was shown to the representative of political parties present at the FLC to ensure absolute transparency.

The Commission had instructed the Chief Electoral Officers of all States and UTs that end-to-end movement of all Reserve EVMs and VVPATs to be carefully monitored at all times, for which all Sector Officers' vehicles with Reserve EVMs and VVPATs were mandatorily fitted with GPS tracking system.

In order to facilitate the electors in identifying the candidates, the Commission had prescribed an additional measure by way of adding provision for printing the photograph of candidate also on the ballot paper to be displayed on the EVM (Ballot Unit) and on Postal Ballot Papers.

The election expenses ceiling for candidates had been revised by the Government of India vide Notification dated 28th February, 2014. As per the revised ceilings, the maximum limit of election expenses for a Lok Sabha Constituency was Rs.70.00 lakh per candidate for all States except Arunachal Pradesh, Goa and Sikkim. For these three States it was Rs.54.00 lakh per candidate. For the Union Territories, the maximum limit was Rs.70 lakh per candidate for NCT of Delhi and Rs.54.00 lakh per candidate for other UTs. Accordingly, in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha the limit of expenses for Assembly Constituencies was Rs. 28.00 lakh per candidate and in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim it was Rs. 20.00 lakh per candidate. The Commission had decided that an election expenditure / either by/ to candidate(s) or political parties exceeding Rs. 10000 in all the situations be incurred by crossed account payee cheque or draft or by RTGS/NEFT or any other electronic mode linked with bank account of the candidate opened for election purpose. All Political Parties sponsoring candidates for the Lok Sabha/Legislative Assembly elections were required to maintain day-to-day accounts of all election campaign expenses and submit the final accounts to the Commission/CEO within 90 days/75 days of the completion of Lok Sabha/Legislative Assembly elections.

In 2014, 1709 (including recognised) political parties were registered with the Commission. In 2019, 2354 (including recognised) political parties were registered with the Commission. In 2014, 464 (including recognised) political parties contested elections. There were 7 national recognised political parties and 52 state recognised political parties which were already ear-marked symbols. 151 common symbols were allocated to 291 registered but unrecognised political parties.

Eleven million plus election machinery were deployed during the election. Elections for 34 vacancies in the several Vidhan Sabhas of the States and Union territories were also held simultaneously.

HIGHLIGHTS

1. NO OF CONSTITUENCIES
TYPE OF CONSTITUENCY GEN SC ST TOTAL
NO OF CONSTITUENCIES 411 84 47 542


2. NO OF CONTESTANTS
NO OF CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY 1 2 3 4 5 6-10 11-15 ABOVE 15
NO OF SUCH CONSTITUENCIES 0 0 1 6 8 144 221 162


TOTAL CONTESTANTS IN FRAY : 8026
AVERAGE CONTESTANTS PER CONSTITUENCY : 15
MINIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY : 3
MAXIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY : 185

3. ELECTORS
MALE FEMALE THIRD GENDER TOTAL
i. NO. OF ELECTORS(Including Service Electors) 472666414 437806707 38970 910512091
ii. NO. OF ELECTORS WHO VOTED AT POLLING STATIONS 316743616 294102631 5682 610851929
iii. POLLING PERCENTAGE (EXCLUDE POSTAL BALLOT) 67.01 67.18 14.58 67.09


4. NO. OF SERVICE ELECTORS
MALE: 1740512
FEMALE: 53788

5. NO. OF POSTAL BALLOT RECEIVED: 2804369
6. POLL % (INCLUDING POSTAL BALLOT): 67.4

7. NUMBER OF VALID VOTES
VALID VOTES POLLED ON EVM: 604357242
VALID POSTAL VOTES: 2276171

8. TOTAL NOTA VOTES
'NOTA' VOTES ON EVM: 6491102
'NOTA' VOTES ON POSTAL BALLOT: 22253

9. NO. OF VOTES REJECTED
POSTAL: 505945
VOTES NOT RETRIEVED ON EVM: 2196
REJECTED DUE TO OTHER REASON (AT POLLING STATION): 1389

10. TENDERED VOTES: 5011
11. PROXY VOTES: 870
12. NO. OF POLLING STATION: 1036295
13. AVERAGE NO. OF ELECTORS PER POLLING STATION: 879
14. NO. OF RE-POLLS HELD: 540
15. PERFORMANCE OF CONTESTING CANDIDATES
MALE FEMALE THIRD GENDER TOTAL
i. NO. OF CONTESTANTS 7296 724 6 8026
ii. ELECTED 464 78 0 542
iii. FORFEITED DEPOSITS 6318 573 6 6897


STATE WISE ELECTORS AND VOTER TURNOUT

State/UT Electors General (Including NRIs) Electors Service Voters EVMVoters Postal Turn Out (%)
1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 317878 593 207080 318 65.12
2 Andhra Pradesh 39345717 60250 31386624 287902 80.38
3 Arunachal Pradesh 798249 5314 626977 32789 82.11
4 Assam 21991112 58947 17932885 59868 81.6
5 Bihar 71063620 152670 40667344 163109 57.33
6 Chandigarh 646084 645 456207 430 70.61
7 Chhattisgarh 18999239 17223 13582366 40259 71.64
8 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 250021 8 198925 59 79.58
9 Daman & Diu 121729 11 87441 32 71.85
10 Goa 1135811 302 851251 2473 75.14
11 Gujarat 45125680 26693 28931509 196855 64.51
12 Haryana 17951151 105859 12627847 73182 70.34
13 Himachal Pradesh 5262126 68028 3801766 58174 72.42
14 Jammu & Kashmir 7844887 77651 3509007 53737 44.97
15 Jharkhand 22364480 40376 14923414 43367 66.8
16 Karnataka 51051432 43098 35053660 105788 68.81
17 Kerala 26151534 53302 20311641 85527 77.84
18 Lakshadweep 55057 132 46877 149 85.21
19 Madhya Pradesh 51794677 72797 36836951 91391 71.2
20 Maharashtra 88564535 112411 53838389 272649 61.02
21 Manipur 1939244 20319 1606408 14043 82.69
22 Meghalaya 1911372 3424 1365074 2685 71.43
23 Mizoram 787777 4687 496780 3567 63.14
24 Nagaland 1206287 7490 1002142 5295 83
25 NCT OF Delhi 14316644 11005 8663777 18589 60.6
26 Odisha 32454405 43357 23720930 96239 73.29
27 Puducherry 973161 249 790252 643 81.25
28 Punjab 20781210 111463 13708085 69210 65.94
29 Rajasthan 48819218 136595 32255531 220950 66.34
30 Sikkim 432306 1822 339880 13535 81.41
31 Tamil Nadu 58442767 60422 42160922 230731 72.46
32 Telangana 29697279 11336 18626253 20603 62.77
33 Tripura 2605325 9393 2142275 12275 82.4
34 Uttar Pradesh 145858553 276050 86220645 311327 59.21
35 Uttarakhand 7765473 90845 4777548 83867 61.88
36 West Bengal 69891751 109533 57097266 132752 81.76
TOTAL 908717791 1794300 610851929 2804369 67.4


Lok Sabha General Election 2019 Participating Political Parties
Lok Sabha General Election 2019 Successful Candidates
Lok Sabha General Election 2019 Statewise Partywise Performance
Lak Sabha General Election 2019 Partywise Statewise Performance

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