The stage for the 15th Lok-Sabha elections has been set up with the fissures in the NDA and the UPA set-up, writes blogger Vidya Sethi. The damage has not been known and perhaps can be ascertained as per the convenience of political arithmetic once the poll results are out, as to facilitate the making of the Government. For the uninitiated the BJD has seemingly moved away from their former NDA allies in state of Orissa, BJP and the SP reportedly has had deserted the post vote of trust honeymoon with the Congress in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Media has always is as eager to read concrete signals and disseminate different trends, which keeps changing as fast as the Sensex that zommed to dizzying heights before tanking to year 2005 lows.
On one hand the growing uncertainty will push the lead players the Congress and the BJP to think out of the box and fill the hopes of a third front aspirant with a fresh lease of life.
Lets look at the some of the general background information in lieu of GENERAL ELECTIONS- 2009.
1) For the purpose of constituting the Lok Sabha , the whole country has been divided into 543 Parliamentary Constituencies , each one of which elects one member. The members of the Lok Sabha are elected directly by the eligible voters . The President of India can nominate a maximum of two members as representatives of the Anglo- Indian community . Some seats are reserved in Lok Sabha for the members of the Schedule Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Media has always is as eager to read concrete signals and disseminate different trends, which keeps changing as fast as the Sensex that zommed to dizzying heights before tanking to year 2005 lows.
On one hand the growing uncertainty will push the lead players the Congress and the BJP to think out of the box and fill the hopes of a third front aspirant with a fresh lease of life.
Lets look at the some of the general background information in lieu of GENERAL ELECTIONS- 2009.
1) For the purpose of constituting the Lok Sabha , the whole country has been divided into 543 Parliamentary Constituencies , each one of which elects one member. The members of the Lok Sabha are elected directly by the eligible voters . The President of India can nominate a maximum of two members as representatives of the Anglo- Indian community . Some seats are reserved in Lok Sabha for the members of the Schedule Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
2) As per the order issued by the Delimitation Commission in 2008 , 412 seats are General , 84 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and 47 seats for the Scheduled Tribes . Earlier, it was 79 and 41 for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively. Backgrounder – 2
3) It will be the first General Elections with Photo Rolls. It is for the first time that Photo-Elector rolls are being used for Parliamentary elections. The coverage of Elector Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) has increased to 82 per cent of total electorate thereby making identification of electors easy.
4) The electorate in numbers ve increased by 43 million from 671 million in 2004 Lok Sabha Election to 714 million this year.
5) These will also be the first General Elections after new Delimitation. After delimitation, number of Parliamentary Constituencies reserved for SC has increased from 79 to 84 (an increase of 5 constituencies) and the number of constituencies reserved for ST has increased from 41 to 47 (an increase of 6 constituencies). In all, the General Elections to the Lok Sabha will be held in 543 Parliamentary Constituencies out of which 499 will be newly delimited constituencies.
6) States and UTs where new delimitation has not been implemented are Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, A&NI, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, and Lakshadweep.
7) The Parliamentary Constituency with highest number of Electors is 33-Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. The number of electors in this Constituency is 18,97,474. Parliamentary Constituency with lowest number of electors is 1 – Lakshadweep.
The number of electors in this constituency is 44,424.
8) The number of Polling Stations have been increased from 6,87,402 in 2004 Lok Sabha elections to 8,28,804 this year - an increase of 1,41,204 Polling Stations. The increase was due to increase in voter population and due to rationalization of polling stations in the interest of the voter convenience.
9) Highest number of Polling Stations in Uttar Pradesh (1,28,112).
10) Lowest number of Polling Stations in Sikkim (581).
11) 12,901 new Polling Stations have been set up for villages/hamlets having less than 300 voters following the vulnerability mapping exercise under taken by the Commission to identify the hamlets and voter segments vulnerable to threat and intimidation.
12) There is only 1 (One) voter in Polling Station No. 3 – Banez under 12-Una Assembly Constituency, Junagad District in Gujarat State (Gir Forest Area).
13) There are 2 (two) voters in Polling Station No.126 – Sheradand under 1– Bharatpur Sonhat (ST) AC in Chhattisgarh State.
14) There are only 3(three) electors each in Polling Station No.13-Lumta under 12–Pakke Kessang (ST), Polling Station No. 40–Mramboo under 41–Anini (ST) and Polling Station No. 35–Upper Modoi Deep under 49– Bordumsa–Diyum ACs in Arunachal Pradesh State.
(For more information about General Elections 2009, you can visit PIB’s website www.pib.nic.in/elections2009).
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