India election 2024: from candidates to voters, all you need to know
by Tamara Davison and Nuray Bulbul
Apr 18, 2024
3 minutes
The Indian national election is scheduled to begin its first of seven phases on April 19. The lower house of parliament in India, the Lok Sabha, has 543 seats, and these elections are for those seats.
With 969 million registered voters eligible to cast ballots using 5.5 million electronic voting machines over 44 days, this is the greatest democratic exercise in history in the world. On June 4, the votes will be tallied and the results made public.
Political experts anticipate prime minister Narendra Modi’s party will maintain power. However, the incumbent faces challenges from an opposition’s) decade-long rule.
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