THIS PRESENTATION HAVE SOME MAIN POINTS ON TOPIC ELECTION. IT HAS ITS TYPES, ITS COMMISSION & OTHER DETAIL.

1. CIVICS

2. GENERAL ELECTIONS
• TO ELECT THE MEMBERS OF LOK SABHA.
• HELD AFTER THE EXPIRY OF THE NORMAL TERM OF 5 YEARS.
• SATE LEGISLATURE ASSEMBLY’S ELECTIONS AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS CAN
BE HELD TOGETHER.

3. MID TERM ELECTIONS
• HELD WHEN THE WHEN A STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IS DISSOLVED BEFORE
THE COMPLETION OF ITS FULL TERM OF 5 YEARS.
• THUS, IT IS CALLED AS MID TERM ELECTIONS.

4. BY-ELECTIONS
• WHEN A SEAT OF A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FALSE VACANT THEN
THESE ELECTIONS ARE HELD.
• THE SEAT BECOMES VACANT DUE TO
1. DEATH OR
2. RESIGNATION OF THE MEMBER

5. ELECTION COMISSION
• IN INDIA, BOTH CENTRAL AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS ARE HELD TOGETHER .
• SO THESE ELECTIONS NEED TO BE FREE AND FAIR.
• BY KEEPING IN MIND THE GREAT IMPACT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ELECTIONS, THE
CONSTITUTION HAS MADE DETAILED PROVISIONS.

6. COMPOSITION OF THE ELECTION
COMMISSION
• ARTICLE 324, CLAUSES 1 TO 6 DEAL WITH THE COMPOSITION OF ELECTION
COMMISSION.
• THE ELECTION COMMISSION CONSISTS OF CHIEF ELECTION COMMISIONER AND
OTHER COMMISSIONER.
• THE CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION .
• AT PRESENT THE ELECTION COMMISSION CONSISTS OF 3 MEMBERS.
• THE MEMBERS ARE ELECTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA.

7. TERM OF OFFICE & CONDITIONS OF
SERVICE.
IN THE ACT OF 1944 THE TERMS OF OFFICE AND THE CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF
THE CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER AND OTHER COMMISSIONERS WERE
DETERMINED
• APPOINTED FOR A TERM OF 6 YEARS.IF THEY ATTAIN THE AGE OF 65 YEARS, THEY
SHALL VACATE THE OFFICE.
• THE SALARY OF THE CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE
SALARY OF SUPREME COURT JUDGE.
• ANY DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF THE ELECTION
COMMISSION IS DECIDED IN FAVOUR OF THE MAJORITY OPINION.