Parliament Election 2024 Schedule: Parliamentary elections in Maharashtra for the 48 seats will be held in 05 Phases starting with Phase 1 (5 seats) on April 19, Phase 2 (8 seats) on April 26, Phase 3 (11 seats) on May 7, Phase 4 (11 seats) on May 13 and Phase 5 (13 seats) on May 20, 2024.
03:30 PM: The 2024 Parliamentary elections will be completed in 07 phases. Polling for the 1st phase of elections will be held on 19 April, 2024, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said Saturday.
"The counting of votes will be done on June 04, 2024. The result will also be declared on the same day", the CEC said.
"Polling for the 1st Phase (102 seats in 21 states) on April 19, 2nd Phase (89 seats in 13 states) will be held on April 26, the 3rd Phase (94 seats in 12 states) on May 07, the 4th Phase (96 seats in 10 states) on May 13, 5th Phase (49 seats in 8 states) on May 20, 6th Phase (57 seats in 7 states) on May 25 and 7th Phase (57 seats in 8 states) on June 01, 2024", he said.
Assembly elections in 04 states - Odisha, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, will be held simultaneously with the Parliamentary Elections, the Election Commissioner said.
Andhra assembly elections will be held on May 13 on 175 seats. Assembly elections of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will be held on April 19, 2024, the CEC said.
Assembly elections in Odisha will be held in 04 Phases on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 01, 2024.
"The counting of votes in the 04 states will also be held on June 4, 2024", the CEC said.
03:15 PM: The Election Commissior of India (CEC) has started the press conference.
"We have 97 crore registered voters in India, 10.5 lakh polling stations, 1.5 cr polling and security officers, and more than 55 lakh EVMs will be used for the 2024 elections", he said.
Kumar further said that there are 1.8 crore first-time voters and 19.47 crore voters between the age group of 20-29 years.
"In total there are more than 21.5 crore young voters", he said.
Overall India gender ratio among voters is at 948/1000 whereas 12 states and UTs have more female than male voters, the Election Commissioner said.
The Electoral Roll has a total of 82 lakh voters of over 85 years of age, 2.18 lakh centenarians, he said.
"Poll officers will go to the homes of the registered voters of more than 85 years age", he said.
02:45 PM: The Election Commission of India is set to announce today, i.e. Saturday March 16, the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Parliament elections also known as General Elections, schedule in a press conference at 03:00 pm.
The announcement of 2024 election schedule has already been delayed by about a week if compared with 2019 when the poll schedule was out on March 10.
The 2024 Lok Sabha Polls are being held under the shadow of widespread allegations of manipulation, rigging, misuse of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), and use of force and intimidation for the political funding.
The term of the current Lok Sabha (17th Lok Sabha) ends on June 16, 2024.
The Election Commission of India is also likely to announce today the assembly election dates in Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, sources said.
The Model Code of Conduct will come into force once the polling dates are announced by the Election Commission.
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