Around 97 Cr Voters in India, Over 2 Lakh Voters Are Above 100 Yrs in Age

New Delhi: There are around 97 crore eligible voters in the country, who will exercise their franchise in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Saturday. He urged everyone to “get inked.”

Addressing a press conference to announce the Lok Sabha elections, Kumar said the poll authority will set up 10.5 lakh polling stations across the country for the voting for the General Elections.

“We have 97 crore registered voters, over 10.5 lakh polling stations manned by 1.5 crore personnel, and 55 lakh EVMs,” he said.

He also informed that there are two lakh eighteen thousand voters in the country, who are above the age of 100 years.

The CEC said out of the 97.8 crore eligible voters, 49.72 crore were male voters and 47.1 crore were female voters.

He said there are 1.82 crore first-time voters.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, polling was held in seven phases.

There were a total of 91.2 crore eligible voters with about 43.8 crore female voters and nearly 47.3 crore male voters.

A total of about 61.5 crore votes were cast and the voter turnout was 67.4 per cent.

In the 2019 poll results, the BJP won 303 seats, Congress 52, Trinamool Congress 22, BSP 10, NCP 5, CPI-M 3 and CPI 2.