World record! 64.2 crore people voted in Lok Sabha elections

India created a world record with 64.2 crore voters, including 31.2 crore women, participating in the Lok Sabha elections this year, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Monday.

Addressing a press briefing, he said over 68,000 monitoring teams and 1.5 crore polling and security personnel were involved in the world’s largest electoral exercise. “India created a world record with 64.2 crore voters, including



31.2 crore women, participating in the Lok Sabha elections this year,” said Kumar.

On social media memes calling election commissioners ‘Laapataa Gentlemen’, Kumar said, “We were always here, never went missing.” “Now memes can say the ‘Laapataa Gentlemen’ are back,” he said. Kumar said that nearly four lakh vehicles, 135 special trains and 1,692 air sorties were used for conducting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.