Check full schedule of 2024 Lok Sabha polls, world's largest democratic exercise

The counting of votes for all 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held on June 4.

Published on: Mar 16, 2024, 16:58:38 IST

By HT News Desk, New Delhi

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The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases, with the first and last phases of polling on April 19 and June 1, respectively, the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared on Saturday. With 96.8 crore eligible voters, including 47.1 crore women, this will be the largest democratic exercise in the world.

A whopping 96.8 crore people are eligible to vote, as per the Election Commission (Representational/PTI)

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The counting of votes for all 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held on June 4, the poll panel added.

Check the full schedule:

Phase	No. of constituencies (States/UTs)	Gazette Notification	Last date to file nominations	Date for scrutiny of nominations	Last date to withdraw candidature	Poll date
1	102 (21)	March 20	March 27	March 28	March 30	April 19
2	89 (13)	March 28	April 4	April 5 (For J&K: April 6)	April 8	April 26
3	94 (12)	April 12	April 19	April 20	April 22	May 7
4	96 (10)	April 18	April 25	April 26	April 29	May 13
5	49 (8)	April 26	May 3	May 4	May 6	May 20
6	57 (7)	April 29	May 6	May 7	May 9	May 25
7	57 (8)	May 7	May 14	May 15	May 17	June 1

It must be noted here that the number of constituencies in the table given above is 544. When this was pointed out to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, he explained that one seat in the northeastern state of Manipur will poll twice, and hence the discrepancy.

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