Election Expenditure

Election Expenditure

The indian election has become very expensive comparitively with the first election . When we talk about government expenditure then it has become around 342 times comparitively the first election ,even we are calculating the government expenditure excluding the expenses of the parties and their candidates.
Here is a look, for better understanding

Year.           Expenditure (in crore)
1952.             10.45
1957 .             5.90
1962 .             7.32
1967 .           10.80
1971 .           11.61
1977 .           23.04
1980 .            54.77
1984.             81.51
1989.           154.22
1991.            359.10
1996 .            597
1998 .             666
1999.              947.68
2004 .             1113.88
2009 .             1483
2014 .             3426 

Source Dainik Bhaskar 15 March 2019.


This is being said the coming 2019 election will be expensive than the Presidential election of America.