- Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Of the eligible visitors, 470 million are women and over 17.3 million are in the age group of 18 to 19 years.
By: Shubham Ghosh
MORE than 960 million people, including 470 million women, are eligible to cast vote in the upcoming general elections in India, for which more than 1.2 million polling booths would be set up across the country, which is now the world’s most populous.
More than 17.3 million of those eligible to vote are in the age group of 18 to 19 years, according to the Election Commission data.
As many as 15 million polling personnel will be deployed to ensure smooth conduct of the parliamentary elections to elect members of the new Lok Sabha — the lower House of the parliament which is popularly elected.
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According to a letter sent by the commission to India’s political parties last year, the country had 17.32 crore (173.2 million) registered voters in 1951, the year before the first general election, which rose to 19.37 crore in 1957, when the second was held.
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In the 2019 general election, the number stood at 912 million.
Out of the total voters registered in the electoral rolls, nearly 1.8 million are people with disabilities.
In 1951, 45 per cent of the voters cast ballots which went up to 67 per cent in 2019.
(With PTI inputs)
