Our election in numbers
- POSTED ON: 1 Jun, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan | Arunodaya Chakraborty
- ARTICLE POINTS: 150 Points
India is the world’s largest democracy. So, the democratic process it uses to choose its leader is a large-scale exercise that involves crores of voters, lakhs of officials, and thousands of parties and candidates.
The 2019 General Election that took place from April 11 until May 19 was the longest election in the country in terms of the number of days the polling was held for – 39 days! Around 90 crore people were eligible to vote in this election, which is close to the total population of Europe and Brazil combined!
That’s not all. Here are more mind-boggling numbers-based facts about this election, but we’ve left it up to you to guess them.
We’ve left out the numbers in each fact listed below. Click on the number you think is right in the corresponding image and see how many you get correct…
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