2014 Lok Sabha election live streaming: Trends will be in by 11am on Friday, final results by 4pm

The 2014 Lok Sabha election results will be out by 4 pm on 16 May, said the Election Commission(EC). The counting of votes will start at 8 am, first by taking the postal ballots, the EC officials stated.

India held the general elections in nine phases from 7 April till 12 May, and the counting of the votes will take place in a total of 989 centres. The EC stated that about 50 foreign delegates from 20 countries are being facilitated to witness the Lok Sabha elections.

The counting of votes from Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will start after half-an-hour of the counting of the postal ballots starts. Even if the postal ballots takes longer time to count, the counting of EVM votes will start exactly at 8.30 am, the EC said.

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Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim will also go polls for their state assemblies along with the Lok Sabha elections. "The declaration of the poll timetable would be completed in the last days of February or at best the first two-three days of March," the sources told PTI.
Throughout the 2009 polls, there were 714 million voters aligned with 671 million voters in 2004 Lok Sabha elections. Before the declaration for polls, the Lok Sabha may meet for one last time to pass a vote-on-account financial plan to facilitate spending for six months of the new economic year 2014-15 to give time for the new Government to current a full-fledged financial statement in the next assembly.
There is also assumption that a extraordinary gathering of legislature may be convened soon to pass anti-dishonesty actions by the government in the run up to the elections. The term of the present Lok Sabha expires on June 1 and the new House has to be constituted by May 31. The expenses is looking into the issue of whether to increase the elections over five phases or may be one more phase.
"We previously have a list of electoral rolls. We need to update it. We wait for that previous to January end, the lists will be prepared," a top EC executive said. A total of 1.1 crore poll employees, half of them being sanctuary forces will be deployed for the flat behavior of polls and to make certain that they are free and light.
Other work in the run-up to the declaration of the poll agenda is in full move back and forth. Dates are being measured for a meeting with the amalgamation residence escritoire for finalising exploitation plans of innermost para-military forces before declaration of the poll agenda.
Chief Electoral Officers of a variety of states are also holding divide meetings with DGPs of states for ease of use of situation police air force for polls.
The EC is also operational on finalising the polling stations for elections. At least 8 lakh