Hey foreign types.
Context. How long does it take for you guys to get results after major but routine elections?
Here in India, for the parliamentary elections we vote the local Members of Parliament who will sit in the Lower House of the Parliamentary Assembly. The party with an absolute majority in the Parliament gets the chance select the PM, usually the party leader. In case no one gets an absolute majority, the party with maximum seats can form coalitions with other parties and jointly put forward athe PM nominee who will be appointed by the President.
The election process has been largely centralized and digitized. Voting machines are distributed across the district's and villages with multiple polling booth. Election day is a holiday. Citizens go to the booth allotted to them, identify their name ina list and sign against it.before a clerk (usually a government employee-school teachers, college professors, bank managers, municipal employees, all government employees are required to volunteer for election duty when required).
Once done, he goes into a booth, press the button for the party symbol, confirm it has been 4registered by viewing a printed numbered slip through a little window in the machine and exit, He then walks to a a other clerk who will mark the index finger of his left hand with indelible ink. All done.
This is done across the country in phases over a period of half a month. The machines are then sealed and taken ensuring proper chain of custody to central counting station. The results are then tallied over a day and a bit more. So the a total reveal of who won how many seats is relatively short.
But since the early eighties, absolute majorities have been few and far between. The bickering, haggling, blackmail, a accusations of coalition formation may take anywhere up to a month. Sometimes coalitions don't last, and then it's back to the grind.
