Lok Sabha Elections 2024: As India eagerly awaits the much-anticipated general elections due this year, all eyes will be on Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar as he announces the full schedule for the mega event in a press conference at 3 pm on Saturday, March 16. CEC Kumar will also declare the full date sheet of polls in some state assemblies.

ECI Lok Sabha Elections 2024: When and Where to watch general elections schedule announcement

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With India being the largest democracy in the world, the voting exercise—to fill 543 Lok Sabha seats—is carried out in multiple phases. For instance, the 2019 Lok Sabha elections took place in seven phases (from April 11 to May 19), whereas the 2024 polls were spread over nine phases (from April 7 to May 12). 

So before the ECI reveals the phase-wise polling schedule for the upcoming general elections, here is a summary of the schedules for the 2019 and 2014 polls:   

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 schedule

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Lok Sabha Elections 2014 schedule

Phase No. of states & UTs No. of Parliamentary constituencies Poll date
1 2 6 April 7, 2014
2 4 6 April 9, 2014
3 14 91 April 10, 2014
4 1 1 April 11, 2014
5 4 7 April 12, 2014
6 12 121 April 17, 2014
7 12 117 April 24, 2014
8 9 89 April 30, 2014
9 7 65 May 7, 2014
10 3 41 May 12, 2014

The results of the general elections to Lok Sabha 2014 were declared on May 16, 2014. 

Simultaneously, elections were also held for the Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and Sikkim assemblies. 

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