This time, the electorate includes 714 million voters, an increase of 43 million over the previous general election in 2004. Votes will be cast in 828,804 polling stations scattered throughout the country for over 5000 candidates from seven national political parties and several state and other parties.
本次的印度选举，选民人数高达7.14亿人，比2004年的前一次普选增加了4300万人。印度选民要在分布在全国的828804个投票站中，为来自七个全国性政党和几个地方性政党的超过5000名候选人投票；整个选举过程涉及400万名负责选举的官员和610万名警察和文职人员。