Page 43 - Atlas 2024 - (14-02-2025)

ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA

Total Electors (STATE/UT WISE)

Legal Provisions / Guidelines Graph 6.1: Total Electors in GEs to Lok Sabha
l "Elector," in relation to an election by assembly members, means any [1951-2024]
person entitled to vote at that election. 1E+09
l All electors voting at an election shall do so in person at the polling station 979751847
provided for them under Section 25 or as the case may be, at the place of 800000000 911950734
polling xed under section 29 the Representation of the People Act, 1951. 834082814

l Special provisions for voting by the noti ed class of electors by Postal Ballot. 716985101
These electors are special voters; service voters; voters on election duty; 600000000 671487930
absentee voters and electors subjected to preventive detention. Number of Electors 592572288 605880192 619536847

Fact 400000000 400375333 498906129 5115333598

l The 18th Lok Sabha Elections witnessed 979.8 million electors. The 321174327 356205329
highest ever in the history of Indian Elections. 200000000 216361569 250207401 274189132
173213635 193652179

0
T6.1 Highest Number of Electors in GE to Lok Sabha – 2024 (State/ UT-wise) 1951 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984-85 1989 1991-92 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019 2024
State/ UT Total Electors
Year of GEs to Lok Sabha
Uttar Pradesh 154403112
Maharashtra 93061760
T6.2 Lowest Number of Electors in GE to Lok Sabha – 2024 (State/ UT-wise)
Bihar 77259579
State/ UT Total Electors
West Bengal 76124780
Lakshadweep 57953
Tamil Nadu 62404947
Ladakh 190576
Madhya Pradesh 56668852
Andaman & Nicobar Islands 315745
Karnataka 54772332
DNH and D&D 417236
Rajasthan 53508010
Sikkim 466643
Gujarat 49796232
Chandigarh 660552
Andhra Pradesh 41401887
Mizoram 861327
Arunachal Pradesh 898442
Puducherry 1024024
Goa 1179644

Senior voters waiting at a rest center at a thematic polling booth

19