Elections In India

India elects on federal level a Head Of State - the President - and a Legislature . The President - is elected for a five year term by an electoral college. Parliament or ''Sansad'' has two Chambers . The ''' House Of The People ''' or '' Lok Sabha '' has 545 members, 543 members elected for a five year term in single-seat Constituencies and 2 members appointed to represent the Anglo-Indian community. The '''House of the States''' or ''Rajya Sabha'' has 245 members, 233 members elected for a six year term, one third every two years, by the elected members of the legislatures of the states and territories and 12 appointed members.

In 1992, the heretofore dominant Two-party System in India, where there are two major Political Parties , with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party, gave way to a Coalition System wherein no single party can expect to achieve a majority in the Parliament to form a Government, but rather has to depend on a process of coalition bulding with other parties to form a bloc and claim a majority to be invided to form the Government. Presently, the United Progressive Alliance led by the Congress Party is in power, while the National Democratic Alliance forms the opposition.

LAST LOK SABHA ELECTIONS

See Also: Indian general elections, 2004

Indian General Elections, 2004-Regional Scenarios

PAST LOK SABHA ELECTIONS

Indian General Elections 1951-1971

Indian General Elections 1977-1999

STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS

State Assembly Elections In India

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