India
○ Presidential Election
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Council of States
- Seats: 245
- Term of office: 6 years
· House of the people
- Seats: 545
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 6 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 834,082,814 (2014 election)
· Voter turnout: 66.44% (2014 general election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: The President is indirectly elected by an electoral college to serve a 5-year term.
- Parliamentary:
1. India has a bicameral Parliament consisting of the Council of States with 245 seats and the House of the People with 545 seats.
2. In the Council of States, 233 members are indirectly elected by the state legislatures to serve 6-year terms and 12 members are appointed by the president to serve 6-year terms.
3. In the House of the People, 543 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms and 2 members are appointed by the president.
· Voting process
1. Candidate Registration
2. Campaign Activities
3. Verify Voters' Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) System
4. Voting: Cast Ballots using Elected Voting Machines (EVM)
· Counting process
1. Count the votes for the parliamentary constituency under the direct supervision of the returning officer.
2. Counting of votes begins with Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballots (ETPB) and Postal Ballots (PB).
3. At the end of each round of counting, the results from 14 EVMs are declared.