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In how many phases the 17th Lok Sabha elections were held in 2019?

Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Six
  • Seven
  • Five
  • Eight
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The Correct Option is B

Approach Solution - 1

This question is about how many rounds of voting the Election Commission used to conduct the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

  1. Six: Six rounds understate the actual schedule used for this particular election cycle.
  2. Seven: Voting ran from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 in seven separate rounds, one of the longest election schedules India has seen, mainly to allow security forces to move between different regions between rounds.
  3. Five: Five rounds is also short of what was actually used; the election spanned close to six weeks precisely because it needed more stages.
  4. Eight: Eight rounds would be one more than what the Commission actually scheduled.

The correct answer is Seven, matching the seven-phase schedule the Election Commission announced and followed for the 2019 general election.

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Before matching a number to this question, it helps to recall why the Election Commission spreads a general election over multiple phases in the first place, mainly so that central police and paramilitary forces posted for poll duty can be moved from one region to the next instead of being deployed everywhere at once.

  1. Six: Six rounds would mean shifting security forces faster than they can realistically be transported and redeployed for a country of this size, so this falls short of what the exercise required.
  2. Seven: Seven rounds, run between 11 April and 19 May 2019, gave the Commission enough time to rotate forces region by region while still finishing the vote and reaching results (23 May) within a manageable overall window.
  3. Five: Five rounds would compress the schedule too tightly for the number of sensitive and remote constituencies that needed dedicated security cover that year.
  4. Eight: Eight rounds would extend the process past what the actual redeployment plan needed, adding a stage the Commission did not use.

The correct answer is Seven, the number of phases that matched the redeployment and logistics plan actually followed for the 2019 general election.

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