- India’s lower house of
Parliament , theLok Sabha , has 543 seats. - This might seem like a lot of seats, but considering India’s population is 1.34 billion, each seat accounts for nearly 1.6 million Indians.
- In fact, a seat in the UK Parliament accounts for 44,000 members of the general populace. Meanwhile, a seat in Indonesia and Brazil account for 366,000 and 341,000 citizens each.
- The number of seats in the Lok Sabha hasn’t changed since 1976, when an amendment to the Constitution Act imposed a hold on the readjustment of seats as per population figures from the latest
Census .
The first phase of polling for elections to India’s lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, gets underway this week. Over the course of seven weeks, around 900 million people will vote to fill 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
This might seem like a lot of seats, but considering India’s population is 1.34 billion, each seat accounts for nearly 1.6 million Indians - a staggering figure when compared to other countries, developing and developed.