The longest name of voter is from AP Hyderabad, May 15 (INN): Entire India is set for final countdown of elections. As they draw to an end here are some interesting trivia, amusing facts, interesting information.
The fate of nearly 8000 candidates including Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal will be known Friday. As we eagerly wait for the results the World's largest battle for ballet also registered interesting happenings.
According to Modak Analytics, which has built world's biggest ever Big Data Repository of Indian Electoral Data of 81.5 crore voters, the approximate voter turnout in this year's general election was little over 551 million.
India is the world's biggest democracy because our electorate 81.5 crore are far more than USA 19.36crore; Indonesia 17.1crore; Brazil 13.58 and UK 4.55 crore.
This voter data they compiled from 2.5 crore PDF pages of Voter information published by Elections Commission in 12 different English languages. According to this data the most glamorous assembly constituency is 177 Bandra West with celebrities like Amir Khan, Kiran Rao, Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Nitu Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor.
The Longest male voter Names found among the 81.5 crore voters from across the coutry is from Andhra Pradesh--Satyapandu Vithaleshwari Dyasag Chandrashekharuni. He is from Kurupam Booth, Kurupam Assembly. Another name is Bala Krishnamacharyulu Sreemat Tirumala Peddinti from Machavaram Booth, Vijaywada Assembly Constituency.
The Longest Names across India Female is also is from Andhra Pradesh. E. Janake Sathya Surya Vijaya Durga Maheshvari in Pothireddypally Booth, Sangareddy Assembly Constituency; Venkata Sathya Suriya Maitreyi Kumari Toleti in BGBS Girls Kalasala Booth, Narasapuram Assembly Constituency and Sheryl Sarita Frias Oliveira Fernandes E De Sa in polling booth No. 28, Porvorim Assembly Constituency, Goa.
In Andhra Pradesh, 13.65 lakh men have Venkata as their first name and is most common. The name Srinivas in Andhra Pradesh has spelling variations or is mis-splet in at least 600 different ways.
In Bihar, 3.27 lak women have Sita as their frist name and is most common. 2.96 lakh women have Geeta as their first name. 6.89 lakh men have Shiv as their first name in Bihar. In Andhra Pradesh, 13.65 lakh men have Venkata as their first name nd is most common. Also 19.28 lakh women in Andhra Pradesh has Lakshmi in some part of their name, informed Milind of Modak Analytics. Similarly 6.74 lakh men have nickname Chinna as their first name.
In Maharasthra 6.10 lakh women have Sunitha as their first name and is most common. 3.41 lakh women there have Anita as their first name. 23.84 lakh voters in Maharasthra have surname as Patil informed Aarti Joshi of Modak Analytics. Ramesh is the most common first name pan India, he informed. In Gujarat, 2.93 women have Gita Ben as their first name and is most common there. Similarly 3.17 lakh men have Ramesh Bhai as their first name and is most common in Gujarat, said Aarti Joshi. There are 81 thousand voters with Fernandes as their name in Goa.
According to Modak Analytics Big Data of 81.5 crore voters, the biggest ever in the world, Around 1.2 crore voters in UP of toal 12.3 crore voters have 'Ram' in their name and around 40 lakh have 'Mohammed; in their name.
A Polling booth Seradand, number 126 in Chhattisgarh has just 3 voters and all of them are men.In the same state, there are 9 voters between age 90 and 100 with same house number. This falls in the area of Pamgarh Assembly Constituency, booth Udaybhatha and the house number is 36.
The most number of senior citizens are found in Ratnagiri Constituency of Maharashtra. 25.5 per cent of total voters there are senior citizens,says Milind of Modak Analytics. Lowest percentage of senior citizens are found in Tura in Meghalaya state, where 7.2 per cent of voters are senior citizens.
Dhar constituency in MP has the highest percentage of voters aged 35 or younger(58.24).
LB Nagar in A.P is the largest assembly constituency with 5.3 lakh voters, Malakajgiri in Hyderabad is largest Lokshabha Constituency with 30 lakh voters. The smallest constituency for Loksabha 2014 is Lakshdweep with around 48 thousand voters.
In UP 68 per cent of the voters have not listed their surname. In Meghalaya, 30 per cent of the polling booths either have only male or female registered voters. Nearly 1.21crore voters in UP got registered in last 8-10 months run up to the elections and 79% of them are of age 35 or younger.
The mention of age in electoral rolls is also very interesting. In Andhra Pradesh, 64 voters have registered their age as Zero, according to Election Commision. In Chhattisgarh voter Raj Kumari Goud's age is recorded as 19,545 years. She belongs to assembly constituency 7-Ramanujgunj, booth name 103, Purandiha.
Jammu Kashmir voter Khem Raj's age is recorded as 27,567 years. He belongs to assembly constituency 78, Raipur domana booth no. 24 M.
There are 740 villages named Rampur, 540 villages named Gopalpur across India.
Approximately a million counting personnel will be counting the votes collected in 18,78,306 electronic voting machines (EVMs) in 989 centres. About 550,000 security personnel will be deployed for the counting process.
Modi and Rahul Gandhi have travelled 4,65,000 kilometers addressing the rallies across the country. This was the first time Indian voters were given NOTA-None of the Above Option.
The official money stated to have been spent on the elections was Rs.3, 426 crores, which was 13 per cent more than what was spent in the last general elections in 2009. It is well known fact that unofficially it is many more times.
News Posted: 15 May, 2014
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