Interesting Facts About Election Commission Of India

Here is the day to choose the one we aspire to let the person cultivate our nation's stem. With this in mind, India's largest democracy with more than 800 million eligible voters has many interesting facts about election commission of India, that are still less known to be heard. So let's hear some of the interesting stories about Indian elections before we go to the nearest election booth.

1. Beginning with the initial voting days, the first general elections were seized from Oct. 25, 1951 to Feb. 21, 1952. On April 17, 1952, the first Lok Sabha was constituted, electing Jawaharlal Nehru as India's first elected prime minister.
   
2. According to the latest publication from Election Commission of India there are overall 1841 registered political parties with 7 national parties, 51 state parties and 1785 unrecognized parties. Traveling back in time, India had 54 political parties at the time of independence!
   
3. Every 18 or 18 + adult has the right to vote for his representative, but it wasn't the same until 1988. The voting age for Lok Sabha elections was 21 till 1988, which was reduced to 18 under the 61st Amendment.
4. The house currently has 545 seats in the Lok Sabha, out of which a total of 131 seats are reserved for representatives of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
5. Uttar Pradesh is one of the most crucial states in deciding a new government, as it accounts for 80 seats in the Lok Sabha.
6. We may all have heard about EVM (Electronic Voting Machines) and we have a misconception that it was introduced in the past decade, but it was first introduced on an experimental basis in 1982 and 1983.
   
7. Moving forward, last but not least for today, the Supreme Court implemented the "None of the Above" (NOTA) ballot option in 2013. Giving everyone the option to choose none political parties.

These were some of the facts which were interesting to revel.