By IANS,
New Delhi : An overview of the staggered five-phase general elections that started April 16 and ended May 13. Here are some of the facts:
Total voters – 713.77 million voters
Polling stations – 834,000
Poll observers – 2,046
Polling staff – 4.69 million
Parliamentary constituencies – 543
Assembly elections – Andhra Pradesh (294), Orissa (147) and Sikkim (32)
Total candidates – 8,070
Male candidates – 7,514
Women candidates – 556
Highest number of candidates – Chennai South (43)
Lowest number of candidates – Nagaland (3)
Highest polling station – Auley Phu in Leh, Ladakh (set up at an altitude of 15,300 feet)
Electronic Voting Machine and control units – control units (908,643) and ballot units (11,83,543)
Villages identified as vulnerable – 86,782
People booked under preventive sections – 373,861
Maoist-affected constituencies – 79 seats
High security deployment – 118,604 polling stations
Video-graphers – 74,729
Digital cameras – 40,599
Helicopters – 55
Re-polls – 648 polling stations