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    "date": "2029-06-23",
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      "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: Representation of the People Act 1951 ss.14, 30, 56, 66, 73, 81, 126A (thc.nic.in copy); Constitution arts. 75, 83(2); ECI press notes of 16 Mar 2024 (PIB PRID 2015227, static.pib.gov.in GESchedule.pdf), ECI/PN/23/2019 and ECI/PN/114/2024; PIB releases of 11 and 13 May 2014 and 12 Jun 2024; President's Secretariat communiques of 6 and 7 Jun 2024; All India Radio (newsonair.gov.in); results.eci.gov.in",
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        "name": "Lok Sabha (House of the People)",
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        "polls_close_utc": "2029-06-23T12:30:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "in-eci",
          "name": "Election Commission of India",
          "name_local": "भारत निर्वाचन आयोग",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://www.eci.gov.in/",
          "results_index": "https://results.eci.gov.in/",
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          "from": "2029-05-16T02:30:00Z",
          "by": "2029-07-07T18:29:59Z",
          "confidence": "estimate",
          "basis": "RPA 1951 s.73: after all results are declared, the ECI notifies the names of the elected members in the Official Gazette, and on that notification the new House 'shall be deemed to be duly constituted'. The ECI's schedule names a 'date before which the election shall be completed' (s.30(e)): 6 Jun in 2024, two days after counting; 27 May in 2019, four days after counting (ECI/PN/23/2019). 2024: on 6 Jun 2024 at 16:30 IST the CEC and ECs gave the President 'A copy of the Notification issued by the Election Commission of India, in terms of Section 73' (President's Secretariat press communique, Rashtrapati Bhavan, 06.06.2024), five days after the last poll. ESTIMATE, because the last polling day is not set: the opening is the morning after the earliest possible counting day (16 May 2029); the close is the end of Sat 7 Jul 2029 IST, 14 days after the window end, which errs late. Election petitions go to the High Court within 45 days (s.81), but no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage."
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            "stage": "exit-poll",
            "from": "2029-05-12T13:00:00Z",
            "by": "2029-06-23T15:30:00Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "RPA 1951 s.126A(2)(a): the ECI bans exit polls from the start of polling on the first day 'till half an hour after closing of the poll in all the States and Union territories'. 2024: the ban ran to '6.30 PM on June 1,2024 (Saturday)' (ECI notification as relayed by the Goa Department of Information & Publicity, 5 Apr 2024, goa.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ECI-PROHIBITS.pdf); 2014: 'only after 6. 30 PM on 12th May 2014' (PIB relid 105039). That puts the close at 18:00 IST. ESTIMATE, because the last polling day is not set: media exit polls can appear from 18:30 IST (13:00 UTC) on the last polling day, at the earliest on the window start (12 May 2029) and at the latest on the window end (23 Jun 2029, to 21:00 IST). They are surveys, not a count.",
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          {
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            "from": "2029-05-15T02:30:00Z",
            "by": "2029-07-01T18:29:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "No count on polling night. All polling days share one counting day, set in the ECI's press note. Gap from last poll to counting: 2014, 12 May to 16 May (4 days; PIB relid 105069, counting 'from 8 a.m'); 2019, 19 May to 23 May (4 days; ECI/PN/23/2019 and PIB PRID 1568595); 2024, 1 Jun to Tue 4 Jun (3 days; ECI Press Note 16 Mar 2024; ECI/PN/114/2024 of 1 Jun 2024, elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/elDK4ogj4V.pdf). In 2024 counting began 'from 8 AM onwards' (All India Radio, 3 Jun 2024), and 'Results of all 543 Lok Sabha seats have been declared' by 11:44 IST on 5 Jun 2024 (newsonair.gov.in, 5 Jun 2024). Returning officers declare each seat under RPA s.66, and results.eci.gov.in shows trends and declarations as ROs enter them. ESTIMATE, because the last polling day is not set: the opening is 08:00 IST three days after the window start (15 May 2029), the shortest recent gap; the close is the end of Sun 1 Jul 2029 IST, eight days after the window end, to cover a counting day set later than in 2014-2024. Each RO declaration settles that seat; the House as a whole is settled only by the s.73 notification (final-result).",
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          {
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            "from": "2029-05-16T02:30:00Z",
            "by": "2029-07-07T18:29:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "RPA 1951 s.73: after all results are declared, the ECI notifies the names of the elected members in the Official Gazette, and on that notification the new House 'shall be deemed to be duly constituted'. The ECI's schedule names a 'date before which the election shall be completed' (s.30(e)): 6 Jun in 2024, two days after counting; 27 May in 2019, four days after counting (ECI/PN/23/2019). 2024: on 6 Jun 2024 at 16:30 IST the CEC and ECs gave the President 'A copy of the Notification issued by the Election Commission of India, in terms of Section 73' (President's Secretariat press communique, Rashtrapati Bhavan, 06.06.2024), five days after the last poll. ESTIMATE, because the last polling day is not set: the opening is the morning after the earliest possible counting day (16 May 2029); the close is the end of Sat 7 Jul 2029 IST, 14 days after the window end, which errs late. Election petitions go to the High Court within 45 days (s.81), but no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
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          {
            "stage": "government",
            "from": "2029-05-16T02:30:00Z",
            "by": null,
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "The President appoints the Prime Minister and, on the PM's advice, the other ministers (Constitution art. 75(1)). The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha (art. 75(3)). No statute sets a deadline. 2024: s.73 notification 6 Jun, then the President administered the oath to the Prime Minister and ministers 'on June 09, 2024 at 07:15 pm' (President's Secretariat press communique, 07.06.2024), eight days after the last poll. ESTIMATE: the opening is the morning after the earliest possible count (16 May 2029), since the last polling day is not set.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
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        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://results.eci.gov.in/",
            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "ECI results host (index), not a page for this election. On 2 Oct 2026 its root redirected to the latest count (ResultAcByeAugust2026/index.htm, Assembly bye-elections, August 2026). The 2024 Lok Sabha page (/PcResultGenJune2024/index.htm) returned 404 on 2 Oct 2026, so past pages do not stay at their paths. The page shows trends and results 'as being filled in the system by the Returning Officers'; 'final data for each AC/PC will be shared in Form-20'. No 2029 page yet and its path is unknown.",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.thc.nic.in/Central%20Governmental%20Acts/Representation%20of%20the%20People%20Act,%201951.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Representation of the People Act 1951 (copy on the Tripura High Court site; India Code and legislative.gov.in did not load from here on 2 Oct 2026). s.14(1)-(2): the general election is held 'for the purpose of constituting a new House of the People on the expiration of the duration of the existing House or on its dissolution'. The President calls it by notification on the date(s) the ECI recommends. Proviso: where the election is not held on a dissolution, 'no such notification shall be issued at any time earlier than six months prior to the date on which the duration of that House would expire'. s.30(d): 'the date or dates on which a poll shall ... be taken', so there can be several polling days. s.30(e): the ECI sets the date by which the election must be completed. s.56: the ECI fixes poll hours, at least eight hours a day. s.66: the returning officer declares each result. s.73: once all results are declared, the ECI notifies the names of the members in the Official Gazette, 'and upon the issue of such notification that House ... shall be deemed to be duly constituted'. s.81: election petitions go to the High Court within 45 days. s.126A(2)(a): the exit-poll ban runs 'till half an hour after closing of the poll in all the States and Union territories'.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.constitutionofindia.net/articles/article-83-duration-of-houses-of-parliament",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution art. 83(2), on a non-official mirror (legislative.gov.in did not serve the text here): 'The House of the People, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer'. During an Emergency, Parliament may extend this by law one year at a time. WINDOW WORKING (expected, not decreed): the 18th Lok Sabha's first session began Mon 24 Jun 2024 (Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs via PIB, PRID 2024630, 12 Jun 2024), so the House expires at the end of Sat 23 Jun 2029. Under RPA s.14 the call can come no earlier than 23 Dec 2028; neither the Act nor the Constitution fixes a polling day, which the ECI chooses (s.30(d)), so no single day can be worked out. Polling is in phases; this record carries only the LAST polling day, because counting and every count stage follow it. Window END = 23 Jun 2029, the expiry day, the latest the outgoing House's term allows. Window START = 12 May 2029, the earliest calendar day on which a last phase fell in the last three elections: 12 May 2014, 19 May 2019, 1 Jun 2024 (sources below). By offset, the ECI ended polling 15 days before expiry in 2019 (expiry 3 Jun 2019 per ECI/PN/23/2019) and in 2024 (expiry 16 Jun 2024 per the ECI's 16 Mar 2024 press note); the same offset would give about 8 Jun 2029, inside the window. A dissolution (art. 85(2)(b)) would bring the election forward, outside this window.",
            "check": null
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          {
            "url": "https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/GESchedule.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "2024 precedent: ECI Press Note of 16 Mar 2024, 'General Elections - 2024', on PIB. Seven poll days (19 Apr, 26 Apr, 7 May, 13 May, 20 May, 25 May, 1 Jun 2024) for 543 PCs. 'Date of Counting of Votes 04.06.2024'. 'Date before which the election shall be Completed' 06 June 2024 (Thursday).",
            "check": null
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          {
            "url": "https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2015227&reg=48&lang=2",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "2024 precedent, text of the ECI press note of 16 Mar 2024 on PIB: 'The term of 17th Lok Sabha is due to expire on 16th June, 2024' and Article 83(2) and RPA s.14 'provides for the conduct of the elections to constitute a new Lok Sabha before the expiry of its current term'. Last of seven poll days 1 Jun 2024, 15 days before expiry.",
            "check": null
          },
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            "url": "https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/PN23%2010032019%20.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
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            "note": "2019 precedent: ECI Press Note ECI/PN/23/2019 of 10 Mar 2019 (linked from PIB PRID 1568497). 'The five-year term of the 16th Lok Sabha is due to expire on 03rd June, 2019'. Last poll day in the schedules 19-05-2019 (15 days before expiry); counting 23 May 2019 (corrigendum PIB PRID 1568595, 11 Mar 2019).",
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            "url": "https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=105039",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
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            "note": "2014 precedent: ECI 'Clarification on Exit Poll', 11 May 2014: exit-poll results 'can be disseminated only after 6. 30 PM on 12th May 2014', i.e. half an hour after the close of the last phase on 12 May 2014. Counting from 8 a.m. on 16 May 2014 (PIB relid 105069, 13 May 2014).",
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          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Indian_general_election",
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            "url": "https://www.eci.gov.in/",
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            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
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