How Results will be Counted for General Elections?

Advisory for 23rd May 2019.

Counting for elections will start at 8 am.

The total EVMs will be divided into a number and in each round, these many EVMs of the Loksabha constituency will be opened and counted against each candidate.

Smaller constituency like Lakshadweep ( 50k voters) may have around 8 to 10 rounds of counting. Bigger constituency like Bangalore North ( 26lakh voters) may have over 30 rounds of counting.

Also, there are postal ballots which are counted in parallel.

Counting time for each EVM depends on the number of candidates contesting in that constituency. More the candidates, more the time.

After each round, the total votes are announced. This is usually picked up by media and highlighted as LEAD. LEAD is not the result

8:30 am: Usually first leads come.
9:30 am : 3 to 4 rounds of counting would be over.

10:00 am: By this time, all most all constituency would have completed 3
rounds and smaller constituencies might have finished counting.

NEVER CELEBRATE OR GET DISAPPOINTED AT THIS TIME.

MEDIA WILL HYPE LEAD AS VICTORY.

There are many rounds to go and the situation can change.

10:30 to 12:30 - More rounds of counting. If lead is above a lakh then
he/she is likely to win.


Around 1pm: Around 400 constituencies would have completed the counting of EVMs and our Media will jump to congratulate the winners etc. Party workers will start distributing sweets.

HOLD ON...
VVPAT PAPER VOTES HAS TO BE TALLIED.

This is new in this election, while u voted, there was a vvpat machine, which records the vote in the paper.

Now EVM result has to tally with the paper result.

So EVM of random 5 booths of an assembly must be picked and votes of paper and EVM must be matched.

Loksabha constituency of Bangalore North has 8 assembly segments under it, so 8×5=40 EVM Along with vvpat paper votes must be TALLIED.

In Pondicheery, 1 LS constituency has 40 assembly segments. So there it has to be 40X5 =200 EVMs verified.

This verification is a manual process and would take no less than 2 to 4 hours.

So the FINAL RESULT will come only by 4pm onwards. Large constituency and more candidates would mean much larger time.

What happens if VVPAT and EVM do not match??? We don't have an answer.
The Returning officer can withhold the result.

So final tally will be known only by night and we will know that who will be the Czar of the nation and we will know whether the stock market party will continue or not as stock tips providers always like a bullish market.