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Leap of Faith Journey of Indian Elections

Women Voters clicked at a selfie booth
The total number of electors in Seventeenth General The total number of General Observers deployed were
Elec ons was 91.2 crore. Out of them 47.34 crore were 819, Expenditure Observers deployed were 299,
male, 43.85 crore were female and 39075 belonged to Coun ng Observers deployed were 2003.
third gender. The total contestants were 8054 out of As for the EVMs the total number of Control Units (CU)
which 7322 were male and 726 were female whereas 06 used was 11,24,186 and Ballot Units 14,82,388. The
(six) belonged to third gender. Maximum number of number of VVPAT units was 11,24,186 only. The Na onal
candidates in a Parliamentary Cons tuency was 185 at Poli cal Par es had put up a total of 1454 candidates, State
Nizamabad, Telangana and minimum were only 03
Poli cal Par es 347, Registered but Unrecognised Poli cal
(three) at Tura, Meghalaya.
Par es 2792, whereas Independents were numbered at
The na onal voters turnout was 67.44 percent. At 90.66 3461. However, only four independent candidates could
percent the highest turnout was recorded at Dhubri reach the 17 Lok Sabha. An overwhelming number (397)
Parliamentary Cons tuency, Assam, whereas the lowest of winning candidates were from Na onal Poli cal Par es,
turnout of 08.98 was recorded at Anantnag Parliamentary whereas 136 were from State Poli cal Par es and only six
Cons tuency in Jammu & Kashmir. were from Registered but Unrecognised Poli cal Par es.

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