An overview of the staggered five-phase general elections that started April 16 and ended May 13. Here are some of the facts:
Total voters - 713.77 million voters
Polling stations - 834,000
Poll observers - 2,046
Polling staff - 4.69 million
Parliamentary constituencies - 543
Assembly elections - Andhra Pradesh (294), Orissa (147) and Sikkim (32)
Total candidates - 8,070
Male candidates - 7,514
Women candidates - 556
Highest number of candidates - Chennai South (43)
Lowest number of candidates - Nagaland (3)
Highest polling station - Auley Phu in Leh, Ladakh (set up at an altitude of 15,300 feet)
Electronic Voting Machine and control units - control units (908,643) and ballot units (11,83,543)
Villages identified as vulnerable - 86,782
People booked under preventive sections - 373,861
Maoist-affected constituencies - 79 seats
High security deployment - 118,604 polling stations
Video-graphers - 74,729
Digital cameras - 40,599
Helicopters - 55
Re-polls - 648 polling stations
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