We are celebrating our Election as like festival. This is the first time election created more impact in each person’s life. May be it’s my personal experience. Social media (FB, Twitter) played a vital role in election campaign. Moreover, the recent technologies were utilized by the politicians in this election. Video Conferencing methods, Tweets, Posts, SMS and Mobile phone Campaigning calls were the important methods taking part in this election. I would like to pin points some information about this election 2014. - This Election was held by nine phases (April 7 to May 12)
- We have 543 Parliament constituencies
- Electoral Population in India is 814.5 million
- Estimate of the election is INR 35 billion
- Election expenditure by candidate INR 7 million in bigger states and to INR 5.4 million in smaller states
- According to a survey, people suggested that corruption is the main issue, 14% voted
- 1.4 million (1,400,000) electronic voting machines in 930,000 voting centres were used
- 1.1 million (1,100,000) of civil servants and 5.5 million (5,500,000) civilian employees to handle the election
The main attraction of this election is Flying Squad. Some major incidents, are compiled below
- $55 million in cash was seized by EC flying squad
- 22.5 million litres of alcohol and about 185,000 kg of drugs
- 7 million rupees for each of the 543 parliamentary constituencies
- Andhra Pradesh is top of $25.5 million and Karnataka at $4.7 million
- 76.89 Crore Seized in Tamil Nadu
The Judgment Day reserved for this Election is May 16, 2014. I am also expecting the election results eagerly like millions of people in our democratic country.
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