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India election 2004 statistics,
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- seats for Congress
& allies: 216
- seats
for BJP & allies: 186
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seats for other parties: 137
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date of election results announcement: 13 May 2004
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- seats needed
for majority: 272
- voter
turnout: about 56 percent, or nearly 380 million people
- number of constituencies in India:
543
- number of seats in the Lok
Sabha (lower house of Parliament): 545 (of which two
are appointed by the President)
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number of registered voters: 675 million
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highest polling booth in India: at Fastan village (Ladakh);
5,180 metres altitude,
26 km from the nearest road
- largest parliamentary constituency:
Ladakh (173,265 square kilometres, with
a population
density of 1.3 people per sq km)
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number of polling stations: 700,000 in the 2004 Lok Sabha election
- duration of election: 3 weeks,
in 5 separate rounds (for different areas)
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cost of this 14th Lok Sabha election: 1,300 crore Rupees (13
billion Rupees)
- first election
phase: 20 April 2004 (with 175 million registered voters, voting
in
140 constituencies across 13 states and 3 Union
Territories)
- casualties from
violence during the first election phase: 19 people killed
(including a magistrate, a constable, para-military
personnel on poll duty and
a freelance journalist),
several injured
- number of candidates
in first election phase: nearly 1,100
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fourth election phase: 05 may 2004 (with 107 million registered
voters, voting in
83 constituencies across 7 states)
- "vigilante squads" armed
with video cameras deployed by the BJP: at 700
Bihar and UP polling booths
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last (5th) election phase: 10 may 2004 (with 251.5 million
registered voters, voting
in 182 constituencies in
13 states and 3 Union Territories)
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- number of EVMs
(Electronic Voting Machines) used: about 1 million
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operational speed of EVMs: maximum of 5 votes per minute
- number of votes one EVM can register:
3,840
- number of candidates an
EVM can hold: maximum of 64
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amount of paper not being used due to EVMs: 8,000 metric tonnes
- EVMs first used in India:
1989-90 in 16 assembly constituencies in three states
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- number of constituencies
in Bihar: 40
- number of
polling stations in Bihar in which repolling took place on 10 may:
232 polling stations, in 14 constituencies - repolling
due to earlier irregularities
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number of constituencies in Bihar in which repolling has been ordered
for
sometime after 13 May due to irregularities: 3
- voter turnout in Punjab:
about 55 percent
- casualties
from violence during the election in Punjab: 2 killed, over
20 injured
- voter turnout in
Haryana: 66.3 percent
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- seats won byCongress:
3 - Mandi (Pratiba Singh), Kangra-Chamba (Chander Kumar),
Shimla (Dhani Ram Shandil)
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seats won by the BJP: 1 Hamirpur (Suresh Chandel)
- registered voters in HP: 4,1173,049
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voters in Shimla parliamentary Constituency: 1,017,352
- voters in Mandi seat: 1,063,225
- voters in Kangra: 1,030,731
- voters in Hamirpur LS seat:
1,061,741
- number of constituencies:
4 (Shimla, Mandi, Kangra, Hamirpur)
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number of polling stations: 6,232 (including two separate ones
for
women in the Kasumpti Assembly segment)
- number of polling stations classified
as "sensitive" in HP: 1,111
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number of polling station classified as "hypersensitive"
in HP: 601
- number of
employees to be deployed for the election in HP: 50,000 (including
poll staff and security personnel)
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appointed by the state government for HP: 4 returning officers
and 78
assistant returning officers
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appointed by the EC (Election Commission) for HP: 660 sector
officers and
magistrates and 13 observers
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number of electronic voting machines used at all polling stations
in HP: 7,542
(additional standby EVM for
polling stations that are more than 5 km from main road)
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names missing from voters' list in Sanjauli polling booths (in Shimla
constituency): about 25 percent (some of which
had photo identity cards,
but if name is not listed
on list the person is not allowed to vote)
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data sources &
key:
AT: Asia Times,
BBC: BBC online,
BRIT: Britannica
2002, BSNL: BSNL
Telecom Trends, BSt: Business
Standard, CIA: CIA
Factbook India, CIN: censusindia.net,
CNEI: Chandigarh
Newsline, c/net: c/net
news, ConSu: Content
Sutra DI: Daily
India, DNA: DNA
India, EB: EquityBull,
EI: ExpressIndia,
EW: EconomyWatch,
FE: Financial
Express, FL: Frontline,
GG: Gujarat
Global, GTF: Global
Technology Forum, GBoWR: Guinness
Book of World Records, HT: Hindustan
Times, ID: IndiaDaily,
IInfoLine: India
InfoLine IND: The
Independent, ITo: India
Today, NPBS: Nature
PBS, PhO:
PhysOrg, RED:
Rediff, REU: Reuters,
Sify: Sify
Broadband, TH: The
Hindu, TNJ: The
News (Jang), ToI: Times
of India, TT: The
Tribune, |
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