This year the number of voters in India is larger than the population of Europe, making this the biggest election the world has ever seen. In the past five years, India has added a population greater than that of the Philippines to its voter rolls.
Having a population in excess of 1.2 billion, the world’s largest democracy of India has set up a solitary polling both in a remote section of the Gir forests, Gujarat, for just a single voter. Overall, some 930,000 polling stations have been established countrywide. During the last Indian electoral exercise, the oldest winning candidate was of the age of 94 years and the youngest had won a seat at the age of 26 years.
Some 28,314 voters, classified as “Transgender persons,” will be exercising their right of franchise in the 2014 Indian ballot that will lead to an elected government, which will actually be representing nearly one out of every 5 people on the planet!The shortest-lived Indian government was once formed by the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), which could last just 13 days on the throne.
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