ඉන්දීය මහා මැතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිඵල අද 04 දා නිකුත්වීමට නියමිතය.
ලොව විශාලතම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී රාජ්‍ය ලෙස සැලකෙන ඉන්දියාවේ මහා මැතිවරණය ශ්‍රීලංකාවට මෙන්ම ලොවටම වැදගත්ය.
අදියර 7 ක් යටතේ, දින 44 ක් තිස්සේ පැවැති ඉන්දීය මහ මැතිවරණයේ ඡන්ද ගණන් කිරීම අද (4) ඉන්දියාවේ වේලාවෙන් උදෑසන 8.30 ට ආරම්භ වෙයි. ඒ අනුව ප්‍රතිඵල නිකුත් කිරීම ද සිදුවෙයි.
ඉන්දියාවේ ඡන්ද ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම සිදුවන්නේ ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික යන්ත්‍රවලිනි. මෙම යන්ත්‍ර බැටරියෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙයි. ඡන්ද ගණන් කිරීමේ දී ඡන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කරන යන්ත්‍රයේ ඡන්ද තහවුරු කිරීමට තවත් යන්ත්‍රයක් ද ඇත.
ඡන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම සිදුවන්නේ, ඡන්ද දායකයා සිය මනාපයට අදාල බොත්තම තද කිරීම පමණි. එහිදී ඡන්දය දුන්නේ කාටද යන්න යන්ත්‍රයේ තිරයේ දිස්වෙයි.
මැතිවරණ කටයුතු අවසානයේ ඡන්ද ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම යන්ත්‍රයත්, තහවුරු කිරීමේ යන්ත්‍රයත්, පසුව මුද්‍රා තබා (සීල් කර), එම ඡන්ද කොට්ඨාශය තුළ ආරක්ෂිතව තබයි.
ඡන්ද ගණන් කරන අවස්ථාවේදී, මැතිවරණ බලධාරීන්, මෙම යන්ත්‍ර එළියට ගැනීම සිදු කරන්නේ පක්ෂ නියෝජිතයන් ඉදිරියේය. යන්ත්‍රවල ප්‍රතිඵලය පෙන්වන බොත්තමක් ඇති අතර එය තද කළ සැණින් ප්‍රතිඵල දැක ගත හැකිය.
1947 දී නිදහස ලද ඉන්දියාවේ පසුගිය මහා මැතිවරණ 17 දී බලය බෙදී ගිය ආකාරය මෙසේය.
1951-52
Winner: The Congress party, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, won the first election, which was carried out between 1951 and 1952. Nehru became the first prime minister of the country
Seats won: The Congress won 364 out of 489 seats
Vote percentage of winner: About 45 percent of the vote
Second-largest party: The Communist Party of India (CPI) won the second-highest number of seats, gaining 16 in the first election
Third-largest party: The Socialist Party (SP) won 12 seats
Voter turnout: 44.9 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot was used in all constituencies
1957
Winner: Congress, led by Nehru
Seats won: 371 out of 494
Vote percentage of winner: 47.8
Second-largest party: CPI with 27 seats
Third-largest party: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) with 19 seats
Voter turnout: 45.4 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1962
Winner: Congress, led by Nehru
Seats won: 361 of 494
Vote percentage of winner: 44.7
Second-largest party: CPI with 29 seats
Third-largest party: Swatantra Party with 18 seats
Voter turnout: 55.4 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
Women voting in general elections, Calcutta, India, 1962.
Women voting in general elections, Calcutta, India, 1962 [Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images]
1967
Winner: Congress, led by Indira Gandhi
Seats won: 283 of 520
Vote percentage of winner: 40.8
Second-largest party: Swatantra Party with 44 seats
Third-largest party: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) with 35 seats. The BJS was the precursor to the BJP.
Voter turnout: 61 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1971
Winner: Congress, led by Indira Gandhi
Seats won: 352 of 518
Vote percentage of winner: 43.7
Second-largest party: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) with 25 seats. The CPM emerged after a fracture within the CPI, amid the broader split within the global communist movement at the time – between the Soviet Union and China.
Third-largest party: CPI with 23 seats
Voter turnout: 60.5 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1977
Winner: Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD). This was the first time the Congress lost a national election.
Seats won: 295 of 542
Vote percentage of winner: 41.3
Second-largest party: The Congress party, with 154 seats and a vote percentage of 34.5. These elections were held after Indira Gandhi first imposed a state of national emergency in 1975, arresting thousands of critics and political activists. She then lifted it in 1977, following which the elections were held.
Third-largest party: CPM with 22 seats
Voter turnout: 60.5 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1980
Winner: Congress, led by Indira Gandhi
Seats won: 353 of 529
Vote percentage of winner: 42.7
Second-largest party: Janata Party (Secular) with 41 seats
Third-largest party: CPM with 37 seats
Voter turnout: 56.9 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1984
Winner: Congress, led by Rajiv Gandhi
Seats won: 404 of 514. This is the largest mandate any government has ever received in independent India, and came in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her Sikh bodyguards, followed by horrific anti-Sikh riots in which the capital, New Delhi, burned for three days. Many Congress leaders were implicated in those riots.
Vote percentage of winner: 49.1
Second-largest party: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) with 30 seats
Third-largest party: CPM with 22 seats
Voter turnout: 63.6 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1989
Largest party: Congress, led by Rajiv Gandhi. It was the first time that no party got a clan majority in parliamentary elections. The opposition, led by the Janata Dal and the BJP cobbled together a coalition that assumed power.
Seats won: 197 of 529
Vote percentage of winner: 39.5
Second-largest party: Janata Dal (JD) with 143 seats
Third-largest party: BJP with 85 seats
Voter turnout: 61.9 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1991
Largest party: Congress, led by PV Narasimha Rao
Seats won: 232 of 521
Vote percentage of winner: 36.3
Second-largest party: BJP with 120 seats
Third-largest party: JD with 59 seats
Voter turnout: 56.7 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1996
Largest party: BJP, led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Seats won: 161 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 20.3
Second-largest party: Congress with 140 seats
Third-largest party: JD with 46 seats
Voter turnout: 57.9 percent
Voting process: Paper ballot for all constituencies
1998
Largest party: BJP, led by Vajpayee. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was formed in May 1998, three months after polling.
Seats won: 182 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 25.6
Second-largest party: Congress with 141 seats
Third-largest party: CPM with 32 seats
Voter turnout: 62 percent
1999
Largest party: BJP, led by Vajpayee
Seats won: 182 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 23.8
Second-largest party: Congress with 114 seats
Third-largest party: CPM with 33 seats
Voter turnout: 60 percent
Voting process: EVM for 46 seats, paper ballots for the rest
2004
Largest party: The Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was formed after the election.
Seats won: 145 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 26.5
Second-largest party: BJP with 138 seats
Third-largest party: CPM with 43 seats
Voter turnout: 58.1 percent
Voting process: EVM for all seats
2009
Largest party: Congress, led by Manmohan Singh
Seats won: 206 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 28.6
Second-largest party: BJP with 116 seats
Third-largest party: Samajwadi Party with 23 seats
Voter turnout: 58.2 percent
Voting process: EVM for all seats
2014
Winner: BJP, led by Narendra Modi
Seats won: 282 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 31.3
Second-largest party: Congress with 44 seats
Third-largest party: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) with 37 seats
Voter turnout: 66.4 percent
Voting process: EVM for all seats
2019
Winner: BJP, led by Modi
Seats won: 303 of 543
Vote percentage of winner: 38.0
Second-largest party: Congress with 52 seats
Third-largest party: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) with 23 seats
Voter turnout: 67 percent
Voting process: EVM for all seats