What makes India's Lok Sabha polls the world's largest 'electoral movement'? 2024 election in numbers

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ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election 2024 dates out : 10 key highlights of seven-phase voting In India, general elections will be held across 28 states and eight Union territories. Besides, India became the world's most populous country across the world last year. So far, 17 general elections, over 400 state assembly elections, 16 presidential elections and Vice presidential elections have been conducted in the country.

The total number of registered electors or voters in India are around 96.8 crore (968 million), the Election Commission of India said on March 16 while announcing the poll schedule. As many as 49.7 crore are men, 47.1 crore are women, 1.8 crore are firs-time voters, 19.74 crore are young voters, 48,000 are transgenders, 82 lakh are aged above 85 and 2.18 lakh are centenarians. 1. United States: Around 16 crore (160 million) 2. Indonesia: Around 20.4 crore (204 million) 3. Pakistan: Around 12.8 crore (128 million) 4. European Union: Around 40 crore (400 million) ALSO READ: Lok Sabha elections: India to go to polls starting 19 April The election expenditure by the central government (towards States/UTs having Legislature) for Lok Sabha Elections in 2014 was around ₹4,000 crore ( ₹3,87,03,756,024).

This includes expenditure towards offices, preparation and printing of electoral roll, charges for conducting elections and issue of photo identity cards. Meanwhile, the high-level committee on 'One Nation One Elections' mentioned in its report submitted earlier in March that "publicly reported estimates of conducting national and state elections, beyond the official costs of conducting elections, range from ₹4-7 lakh crore". As of March 15, 2019, there were a total of 2,360 political parties registered with the Election