The Election Commission of India has released ‘General Elections 2019 – An Atlas’.

Atlas on General Elections

• The Atlas encompasses all the data and statistical figures of this monumental event. It shares interesting facts, anecdotes and legal provisions related to the Indian elections.
• It brings out salient features such as data of the 23 States and Uts where women voting percentage was more than the male voting percentage.
• It has information about the largest & smallest parliamentary constituency in terms of electors, candidates and performance of political parties amongst other parameters.
• The Atlas depicts the elector’s data in different categories and through various comparison charts like Elector Gender Ratio and electors in different age categories.
• This Atlas serves as an informative and illustrative document that brings to light the nuances of the Indian electoral process and empowers readers to analyze trends and changes.

Data on 2019 Elections

• The 2019 General Elections witnessed the lowest gender gap in the history of Indian elections.
• The Elector Gender Ratio which has shown a positive trend since 1971 was 926 in the 2019 General Elections.
• The Atlas also compares the average number of electors per polling station in different states during the 2014 & 2019 General Elections.
• The Election Commission of India set up over 10 lakh polling stations in General Elections 2019 with the lowest number of electors per polling station (365) in Arunachal Pradesh.

Why was such Atlas needed?

• Since the first General Elections in 1951-52, the Commission has been publishing a compilation of electoral data in the form of narrative and statistical books.
• 17^th General Elections conducted in 2019 were the largest democratic exercise in human history which witnessed the participation of 61.468 crore voters at 10.378 lakh polling stations spread over 32 lakh sq km.

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