ELECTION GALORE (PIB.NIC.IN)

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Election Commission
Highlights of General Elections - 2009 15:34 IST GENERALELECTIONS – 2009 Backgrounder – 2 Photo-Elector Rolls: First General Elections with Photo Rolls. It is for the first time that Photo-Elector rolls are being used for Parliamentary elections. The coverage of Elector Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) has increased to 82% of total electorate thereby making identification of electors easy. Total Electors: Increase in Electorate from 671 million in 2004 Lok Sabha Election to 714 million this year. An increase of 43 million. Delimitations of Parliamentary Constituencies: First General Elections after new Delimitation. After delimitation, number of Parliamentary Constituencies reserved for SC has increased from 79 to 84 (an increase of 5 constituencies) and the number of constituencies reserved for ST has increased from 41 to 47 (an increase of 6 constituencies). In all, the General Elections to the Lok Sabha will be held in 543 Parliamentary Constituencies out of which 499 will be newly delimited constituencies. States and UTs where new delimitation has not been implemented are Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, A&NI, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, and Lakshadweep. Parliamentary Constituency with Highest & Lowest Electors: Parliamentary Constituency with highest number of Electors is 33-Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. The number of electors in this Constituency is 18,97,474. Parliamentary Constituency with lowest number of electors is 1 – Lakshadweep. The number of electors in this constituency is 44,424. Polling Stations: Increase in Polling Stations from 6,87,402 in 2004 Lok Sabha elections to 8,28,804 this year - an increase of 1,41,204 Polling Stations. The increase was due to increase in voter population and due to rationalization of polling stations in the interest of the voter convenience. Highest number of Polling Stations in Uttar Pradesh (1,28,112). Lowest number of Polling Stations in Sikkim (581). Polling Stations for Villages / Hamlets: 12,901 new Polling Stations have been set up for villages/hamlets having less than 300 voters following the vulnerability mapping exercise under taken by the Commission to identify the hamlets and voter segments vulnerable to threat and intimidation. (For more information about General Elections 2009, please visit PIB’s website www.pib.nic.in/elections2009) Main Election Cell-030309/2-GE-Backgrounder