{"id":3021,"date":"2024-06-03T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:50:38","slug":"india-commission-says-642-million-voted-in-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/india-commission-says-642-million-voted-in-election\/","title":{"rendered":"India commission says 642 million voted in election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A total of 642 million Indians voted in the just-concluded six-week-long polls, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar told reporters on Monday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi widely expected to win a third term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have created a world record of 642 million Indian voters, it is a historic moment for all of us,&#8221; Kumar said, adding that nearly half of those &#8212; 312 million &#8212; were women voters.<br \/>\n&#8220;It shows the incredible power of voters of India,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People should know about the strength of Indian democracy.&#8221;Based on the commission&#8217;s figure of an electorate of 968 million, 66.3 percent of eligible voters turned out, slightly down on the last general election in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar said that &#8220;642 million voters chose action over apathy, belief over cynicism and in some cases, the ballot over the bullet&#8221;, the commission said, with the commissioner adding that there were &#8220;no major incidents of violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Voting in the seventh and final staggered round ended on Saturday, and counting and results are due on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls show Modi is well on track to triumph, with the premier saying he was confident that &#8220;the people of India have voted in record numbers&#8221; to re-elect his government. India uses electronic voting machines that allow for faster counting of ballots. &#8220;We have a robust counting process in place,&#8221; Kumar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 642 million Indians voted in the just-concluded six-week-long polls, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar told reporters on Monday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi widely expected to win a third term. &#8220;We have created a world record of 642 million Indian voters, it is a historic moment for all of us,&#8221; Kumar said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}