This book contains all salient provisions of the Constitution, electoral laws and a plethora of directions and instructions of the Election Commission of India on various aspects of electoral exercise. The present book is an abridged version of ‘How India Votes: Election Laws, Practice and Procedure’, however, it has been updated with the amendments made to election law, judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court and High Courts as well as the Election Commission’s directions and instructions which have come into effect subsequent to the publication of the second edition of the above book in 2007. It is hoped that the present book will also be found equally useful by all interested in the ensuing electoral exercise, legal practitioners in election laws, students of electoral law, psephologists and the media personnel covering electoral activities.