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The Election Commission of India (ECI) is an autonomous authority of India that is enacted under the provisions of the Constitution, responsible for monitoring and administering Union and State election processes in India.
Local Body Elections (India) are conducted periodically in states and union territories of India as per the provision made in Constitution. [1] The reasons for forming these local bodies are 1. Decentralisation of process of democracy and 2. Power devolution at local levels. Local Body Elections are conducted by State Election Commission. [2] [3]
Municipal corporation elections are conducted under the supervision of the State Election Commission. [5] [6] The State Election Commission is an independent body [7] and consists of individual members who have served as bureaucrats at the state and national level with high reputation, integrity and values.
A mammoth exercise in democracy is underway in India, where nearly a billion people will go to the polls over the next six weeks to vote in the world’s largest ever general election.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced the schedule for the elections on 16 March 2024. Article 83 of the Constitution of India requires elections to the Lok Sabha to be held once every five years. [28] The 543 MPs are elected from single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. [29]
The method of electing mayor and their tenure varies for each city in India. In Bengaluru, Karnataka the election process is indirect with a tenure being for one year, in Mumbai Maharashtra it follows indirect elections with tenure for two and a half years and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh follows a directly elected mayor with a term for five years.
Electronic voting is the standard means of conducting elections using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in India. The system was developed for the Election Commission of India by state-owned Electronics Corporation of India and Bharat Electronics. Starting in the late 1990s, they were introduced in Indian elections in a phased manner.
The Election Commission expressed its opposition to Electoral Bonds during a hearing on the electoral bonds issue in the Supreme Court, citing its affidavit filled with the Law Ministry in 2017, terming it "a retrograde step". The poll panel led by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi during the course of the hearing expressed concern over the ...