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Election Facts & Figures for the year 2004
Total number of constituencies in India: 543.
Total seats needed for majority: 272.
Total number Of Parties: 220.
Total number of Candidates contested: 5,398.
Total number of Independent Candidates: 2,369.
Total votes polled throughout India: 38,74,53,223.
Average votes polled/Candidate 70,665.
Total number of registered voters: 67,50,00,000.
Total number of polling stations: 7,00,000.
Lowest number of Vote polled: 45 for Ashok Kumar, Independent Candidate from Chandni Chowk, Delhi.
Highest number of Votes 8,55,543 for Sajjan Kumar, Congress Candidate from Outer Delhi, Delhi.
Highest number of Candidates contested from a Constituency: 35 from Madras South in Tamil Nadu in 2004.
Total cost of the Election Rs. 10,00,00,000.00 Approx.
Voter turnout: about 56% Nearly 38,00,00,000 people.
Statistics on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM)
Total number of Electronic Voting Machines(EVM) used: 10,25,000 EVMs.
Operational speed of an EVM: 5 votes/min.
Number of votes an EVM can register: 3,840.
Number of candidates an EVM can hold: 64(max).
Amount of paper saved due to use of EVM: 8,000 metric tonnes.
First introduction of EVM in India: 1989-90 elections in 16 assembly constituencies in three states.
Designed by Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. and Bharat Electronics Ltd, Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were first used in Kerala. The highest number of candidates that an electronic voting machine can support is 64. If the number exceeds this, then manual ballot is used.
Election Commission survey says 95% voters prefer EVM.
Ex-PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's mother and father share the same name- Krishna, His father's name is Krishna Bihari Vajpayee and mother's name is Krishna Devi.
Ever heard of 1033 candidates for a single seat? Believe it or not, it did happened for the Modaurichi assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu in 1996. The ballot paper was in the form of a booklet.
From its days of glory in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress in 1988 won exactly zero seats.
Mayawati’s BSP and George Bush’s Republican Party both have the same electoral symbol-the elephant.
A B Vajpayee is the only parliamentarian to be elected from four different states- UP, Gujarat, MP and Delhi.
The lowest voter turnout in a polling station is three. It happened in Bomdila district in Arunachal Pradesh.
Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh is the only constituency in the Hindi belt which has always returned Congrss during the general elections.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the only politician who has won from six different constituencies: Balrampur - 1957, 1967, Gwalior - 1971, New Delhi - 1977, 1980, Vidisha- 1991, Gandhinagar - 1996, Lucknow - 1991, 1996, 1998.
BJP won Lok Sabha seats for the first time in the states of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal in 1998.
The highest voting percentage in any general elections has been 62.2 per cent in 1957, the lowest was in 1967 when only 33 per cent cast their vote. In the last general elections in 1999, 59.99 per cent had cast their votes.
As the country goes to polls, the Women's Reservation Bill has been put on the backburner yet again. While only 4.4 per cent of the first Lok Sabha were women, the percentage only doubled to 9.02 per cent by the thirteenth Lok Sabha.
150 million votes to be targeted by the BJP’s campaign through Email and SMS
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