Key Points
A mammoth exercise in democracy is underway in India, where nearly a billion people will go to the polls over the next six weeks to vote in the worlds largest ever general election.. . Prime Minister Narendra Modi is standing for a rare third term in power, against an alliance of opposition parties that are seeking to unseat him.. ..
Home to more than 1.4 billion people, about 969 million are eligible to cast their vote in the upcoming election more than the populations of North America and the European Union combined.. ..
Some states only have one day to vote, while the countrys most populous state in the north, Uttar Pradesh, and the eastern states of Bihar and West Bengal with an estimated combined population of 475 million, will vote across a span of seven days.. . Heres how and when the election takes place:..
From the high peaks of the Himalayas to the remote forests in Indias central states, votes will be cast electronically across more than one million polling stations in the country a 1.2% increase in the number of stations from the previous election in 2019.. ..
