On May 16th, 2009,
the Election Commission of India announced the results of its recent
month-long India-wide election for their lower house of Parliament - the
largest democratic election in the world. An estimated 714 million
voters (from a population of 1.2 billion) were eligible to cast their
vote in one of five separate phases at over 800,000 polling stations,
starting on April 16th. Logistically difficult, massive in scale, and
opposed by various rebel groups, separatists and protestors, the
elections still managed to be held with minimal disruption, with an
average voter turnout of greater than 56%. The big winner was the the
Indian National Congress party, which will form the new government under
the incumbent prime minister Manmohan Singh. As with any photo story
from India, it is impossible to capture every aspect in just a handful
of pictures - collected here are only some of the scenes that played out
across the nation over the last month. (40 photos total)
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January 20, 2010
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