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LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2019

From the Election Commissioner of India

onducting elections in the world’s largest democracy is a vibrant and
gigantic task involving a mind-boggling number of both electors and

Celection officials. In order to facilitate a smooth polling experience for
911.9 million electors, across 10,37,848 polling stations 12 million polling
officials were deployed to conduct the 17 General Elections to the Lok Sabha.
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Such massive numbers indicate that elections in India have its own challenges in
terms of sheer scale, size, diversity and complexity besides logistics for men and

materials management.

The Commission has always addressed the challenges with professionalism,
commitment, integration of state-of-the-art technologies, structured consultations

with the stakeholders, strategic interventions and meticulous planning down to the
polling station level.

The 17 General Elections was aptly termed as ‘Desh Ka Mahatyohar’ as it was
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the biggest celebration of democracy across the world. It gives me immense pride
to mention that this humongous election was conducted in an informed, inclusive,

accessible, transparent and ethical manner and a resounding success with highest
ever Voter Turnout of 67.4%. One of the remarkable achievements of this election
was the higher percentage of voting by female voters (67.18%) than that of by the

male voters (67.02%) at the poll at the polling stations. 23 States/UTs had higher
turnout of female vote percentage than that of male vote percentage.

This book compiles the implausible data and statistics regarding the 17 Lok Sabha
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Elections which was conducted across 543 Parliamentary Constituencies. The
book includes interesting facts about the elections, some heartwarming anecdotes

from remote corners of the countries and inspiring images which depict faith of
the common man in electoral process in India. I am hopeful that academicians,
researchers and other stakeholders would find this atlas useful.

I dedicate this book to the unsung heroes who crossed all barriers to come together
to make the election a major victory for every Indian.

Rajiv Kumar
Election Commissioner

Election Commission of India

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