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How are constituencies for Lok Sabha decided by the Election Commission?

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  1. (i) For Lok Sabha elections, the country is divided into 543 constituencies.
    (ii) The representative elected from each constituency is called a Member of Parliament or an MP.
    (iii) One of the features of a democratic election is that every vote should have equal value.
    That is ‘why our constitution requires that each constituency should have a roughly equal population living within it.

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