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(19,429 posts) Sun Apr 6, 2014, 07:00 PM Apr 2014

India Kicks Off World’s Biggest-Ever Election With Modi in Lead

The biggest election in world history starts today in the Himalayan foothills of northeastern India, with Narendra Modi’s opposition party poised to win the most seats as it looks to regain power after a decade.

About 815 million voters, roughly the populations of the U.S. and European Union combined, are eligible to cast ballots in nine rounds of voting over the next five weeks to pick 543 lawmakers. Results will be known on May 16 in the nation of 1.2 billion people, where about two-thirds live on $2 per day.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-06/india-kicks-off-world-s-biggest-ever-election-with-modi-in-lead.html

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