Andhra Pradesh General Elections: 2014 (Lok Sabha)

Andhra Pradesh is a part of South India and is a Telugu speaking state in the country. The state of Andhra Pradesh has around 42  members in the Parliament of India. ( Lok Sabha )

The national parties of Andhra Pradesh are:

1. Bhartiya Janata Party
2. Bahujan Samaj Party
3. Communist Party of India
4. Indian National Congress

There are number of local or state level parties functioning in Andhra Pradhesh popular of them can be

1. NTR Telugu Desam Party
2. Telangan Rashtra samity 
3. All India Majlis e Ittehadul Mislimeen
4. Lok Satta Party
5. YSR congress party

ANDHRA PRADESH: SCHEDULE OF GENERAL ELECTIONS – 2014  (Parliament)

ANDHRA PRADESH	Election Date	Parliamentary Constituencies
This could be from Telangana And Simandhra	30-April-14 (Wednesday) 17 Seats	Adilabad, Peddapalle, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Zahirabad, Medak, Malkajgiri, Secunderabad, Hyderabad,  Chevella Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool, Nalgonda, Bhongir, Warangal, Mahabubabad, Khammam
	07-May-14 (Wednesday) 25 Seats	Araku, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam,  Anakapalle, Kakinada, Amalapuram, Rajahmundry, Narsapuram, Eluru, Machilipatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Narasaraopet, Bapatla, Ongole, Nandyal, Kurnool, Anantapur, Hindupur, Kadapa, Nellore, Tirupati, Rajampet, Chittoor

Maharashtra: General Election: 2014

Maharashtra is going to Elect 48 Member of Parliaments over three days in April; the election commission announced this on Wednesday in New Delhi.

Polls for 11 seats in Mumbai and Thane districts will be held on April 24.

Maval is another constituency under which some of the areas in Mumbai metropolitan region fall will also go to polls on April 24. Vidarbha region has 10 Lok Sabha seats will be in the first phase of poll in the state which will be held on April 10. Remaining 38 constituencies in the state falling in Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Konkan will go to poll on April 17 and 24.

State election commission has already asked the voters to confirm their registry and cards and update them or apply for them immediate so as to get them enlisted before the last date for filing of nomination for the candidates probably it could be 9 March. This means voters have less than a month's time to ensure that they can vote on the day of election. There are about 40 lakh new voters this year in Maharashtra

Awareness of Politics

According to some senior journalists, the higher growth of political awareness could be a result of the political and social setting across the nation. “A segment of society is unhappy, or rather angry with the people in the government. A contributing factor to the enlargement of voters’ list is also the agitation launched by social crusader Anna Hazare, awareness among people to vote and, of course, a negative and violent expression of anger through social media,”.

According to political analyst and Professor Surendra Jondhale of Mumbai University, Thane, “The high growth is due to the sustained campaign by the Election Commission to register voters, growing awareness among people to participate in the democratic process, and the new environment created due to the efforts taken by NGOs.”

So expecting a huge amount of Voting to elect the 16^th’ Lok Sabha this time.

Lok Sabha Elections 2014

Lok Sabha elections in 9 phases from April 7 to May 12, results on May 16

Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath announces initiation of Lok Sabha polls.

Most awaited and world’s largest democratic nation India goes to poll to elect their 16 th  Lok Sabha has begun. The polling will be held between April 7 and May 12 in 9 phases, said the Chief Elections Commissioner VS Sampath on Wednesday March 5^th. The counting of votes will be held on May 16 and expected the results out by evening of 16^th May. The voting will take place in nine phases in the country for first time.

The first phase of polling will starts on April 7, covering 2 states and 6 constituencies, second phase on April 9, covering 5 states and 7 constituencies, third phase on April 10, covering 14 states and 92 constituencies, fourth phase on April 12, covering 3 states and 5 constituencies, fifth on April 17, covering 13 states and UTs and 122 constituencies, sixth phase on April 24, covering 12 states and 117 constituencies, seventh phase on April 30, covering 9 states and 89 constituencies, eighth phase on May 7, covering 7 states and 64 constituencies and ninth phase on May 12, covering 3 states and 41 constituencies.

The term of the current Lok Sabha will ends on June 1 and the new House has to be constituted by May 31. Along with the Lok Sabha election, Andhra Pradesh, including the state comprising Telangana, Odisha and Sikkim will go to polls to elect their new Assemblies. AP, Odisha and Sikkim assemblies come to end on June 2, June 7 and May 7 respectively.

An estimated 81.4 crore voters will be qualified to vote in the coming elections.  9.71 crore new voters have been added to the rolls since the last elections i. e. 2009.

Expenditure Limits

From the coming elections, candidates in a Parliamentary constituency in bigger states can spend up to Rs 70 lakh on their campaign, up from Rs 40 lakh in 2011. In the 2009 elections, it was Rs 25 lakh.

The 2014 Lok Sabha elections will see the introduction of "None of the Above" (NOTA) option in voting, which came into vogue in the assembly elections a few months ago.

The 2009 polls were held in five phases from April 16 to May 13.