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Overseas Indian voters in Lok Sabha polls, 2024
January 1 , 2025
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- As many as 1,19,374 registered as the overseas electors in 2024, with Kerala witnessing the highest registrations at 89,839.
- In 2019, as many as 99,844 had registered as overseas electors.
- Only 2,958 overseas electors flew down to India to participate in the largest democratic exercise in the world.
- Of these, an overwhelming 2,670 were from Kerala alone.
- Several large States such as Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu saw zero turnout of overseas electors.
- Gujarat saw only two out of 885 overseas electors casting their votes.
- In Maharashtra, only 17 of the 5,097 NRI electors voted.
- There were 7,927 registered NRI electors in Andhra Pradesh, only voted.
- In August 2018, the 16th Lok Sabha passed a bill to allow proxy voting rights to eligible overseas Indians.
- The bill, however, could not be brought to the Rajya Sabha.
- In 2020, the EC proposed to the Union Law Ministry to extend the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) facility, so far available only to service voters, to eligible overseas Indian voters as well.
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