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Leap of Faith Journey of Indian Elections

SVEEP (Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation Progarmme) initiatives
NCT received an aggregate of 13,000 EVMs from Bihar on October 8. For remaining six constituencies re-poll
and Uttar Pradesh. In return, Delhi sent out 30,000 ballot was held on October 28, 1999.
boxes to Maharashtra and 3,000 to J&K. The number of
ballot boxes was found to be adequate without any need The Thirteenth General Elections, was the last Lok Sabha
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election to be held in the 20 century. It threw up a stable
for fresh purchase.
government at the Centre, thus bringing to close the
The counting for 537 Parliamentary Constituencies was political instability witnessed during the 1990s.
taken up on October 6, 1999 with results being declared

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