General election of India 2024: Salient features
Conducting the General Election of world's biggest democracy with 140 Cr population is a mammoth task. India voted for electing 543 members of parliament for the lower house, Parliament. Managing an electorate of size as high as 97 Crore is not a simple task. As on 2024, the t otal number of eligible voters of India is 3 times the population of USA. Voting happens by electronic mode by Electronic voting machine (EVM) along with Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT). Second longest election The 2024 election was India’s second longest ever (44 days) after its first elections in the early 1950s, which lasted close to four months. Voting system India uses 'First Past the Post' model for election where constituency wise candidate who secure more vote wins the seat. This system is followed in UK and USA. The other system is 'Proportional Representation', where seats are allocated based on % votes, not by seat wise but as a country as a whole. Israel follows thi...