Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday revealed that India has created a world record of 642 million voters and gave a standing ovation to all those who exercised their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing a press conference ahead of the election result day, CEC Rajiv Kumar said, “Voters scripted history in 2024. Over 31 crore women cast their vote. We have created a world record of 642 million voters. This is 1.5 times voters of all G7 countries and 2.5 times voters of 27 countries in EU,” CEC Rajiv Kumar said at the press conference, which is the first time for the poll body to hold such a post-election, pre-result briefing.
Kumar also praised the meticulous work of the election personnel who ensured fewer repolls.
“We saw 39 repolls in Lok Sabha polls 2024 as opposed to 540 in 2019 and 25 out of 39 repolls were in two states only,” said the CEC.
He claimed that this is one the general elections where no major incidence of violence was reported.
“This required two years of preparation,” said Kumar.
He said that the poll body made a record seizure of almost Rs 10,000 crore during the election.
“This is nearly three times the value seized in 2019… Local teams were empowered to do their work,” said Kumar.
Sharing the details of voter turnouts, he singled out Jammu & Kashmir which saw the highest turnout in the last four decades at 58.58 per cent overall and 51.05 per cent in the Valley.
The Chief Election Commissioner also gave details about the counting process to be followed to declare the Lok Sabha elections.
“The entire counting process is absolutely robust. It works similar to the precision of a clock,” he added.
With inputs from agencies
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