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Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Updated poll schedule, counting/results to be delayed by 5 days

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Updated poll schedule, counting/results to be delayed by 5 days
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The elections commission on Friday submitted a 50-page affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that counting VVPATs of 50% EVMs, as demanded by 21 opposition parties can potentially delay the result by around 5 days.


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%.


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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)



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