The elections commission also said that some constituencies have as many as 400 polling stations and counting 50% VVPATs can take up to 8-9 days. There are 10.35 lakh polling stations all over the country with an average of 250 per constituency. It takes around 1 hour to count slips for one polling station so 50% of total slips would take an average of 5.2 days, said EC in its statement.
The elections commission also said that the revised counting structure will lead to negligible gains in the voter confidence on EVM machines which currently stands at 99.99%.
SI. No. | Poll Event | Phase -1 | Phase-2 | Phase-3 | Phase-4 | Phase-5 | Phase-6 | Phase-7 |
1 | Announcement and Issue of Press Note | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) | 10 March 2019 (Sunday) |
2 | Issue of notification | 18 March 2019 (Monday) | 19 March 2019 (Monday) | 28 March 2019 (Thursday) | 02 April 2019 (Tuesday) | 10 April 2019 (Wednesday) | 16 April 2019 (Tuesday) | 22 April 2019 (Monday) |
3 | Last date for filing nominations | 25 March 2019 (Monday) | 26 March 2019 (Tuesday) | 04 April 2019 (Thursday) | 09 April 2019 (Tuesday) | 18 April 2019 (Thursday) | 23 April 2019 (Tuesday) | 29 April 2019 (Monday) |
4 | Scrutiny of nominations | 26 March 2019 (Tuesday) | 27 March 2019 (Wednesday) | 05 April 2019 (Friday) | 10 April 2019 (Wednesday) | 20 April 2019 (Saturday) | 24 April 2019 (Wednesday) | 30 April 2019 (Tuesday) |
5 | Last date for withdrawl of candidature | 28 March 2019 (Thursday) | 29 March 2019 (Friday) | 08 April 2019 (Monday) | 12 April 2019 (Friday) | 22 April 2019 (Monday) | 26 April 2019 (Friday) | 02 May 2019 (Thursday) |
6 | Date of poll | 11 April 2019 (Thursday) | 18 April 2019 (Thursday) | 23 April 2019 (Tuesday) | 29 April 2019 (Monday) | 06 May 2019 (Monday) | 12 May 2019 (Sunday) | 19 May 2019 (Sunday) |
7 | Counting of Votes/Results Out on | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) | 28 May 2019 (Thursday) |
8 | Date before which the elections shall be completed | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) | 31 May 2019 (*Updated) |