EFSAS comments on the upcoming Indian General Elections in 2024
April 12, 2024
The sheer scale of the Indian exercise is mind-boggling. India’s updated electoral roll consists of 968.8 million registered voters, an astounding figure that is more than the population of Europe, and of the continents of North and South America, all put together. This multitude of Indian citizens, above the age of 18 and armed with suffrage granted by the Constitution, will decide the government for the next five years. There were 911 million electors in the 2019 elections and 834 million in 2014.
