Total number of seats in our Loksabha for which elections were held in…

Concept: The Lok Sabha (House of the People), the directly elected lower house of India's Parliament, has an elected strength of 543 members, one from each single-member parliamentary constituency chosen by direct popular vote. The framework for allocating parliamentary seats among the states was frozen on the basis of the 1971 census by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment (effective from the 1976 delimitation); the 84th Constitutional Amendment later extended that freeze on state-wise seat allocation, and the 87th Constitutional Amendment separately updated the census used for delimiting constituency boundaries within each state (from 1991 to 2001) without changing any state's seat allocation. The elected strength reached its present figure of 543 by the 1989 general election and has stayed unchanged at that number through every general election since, including the 2014 general election.

Application: The 16th general election to the Lok Sabha was conducted by the Election Commission of India in nine phases between 7 April and 12 May 2014. Its official schedule and post-poll electoral statistics record that polling and counting were carried out for all 543 parliamentary constituencies across the country, so the total number of seats for which elections were held in April-May 2014 is 543.

Cross-check: The elected strength of the Lok Sabha has been fixed at 543 since the 1989 general election and has stayed frozen at that figure through every subsequent constitutional extension of the freeze, so it was also 543 at the time of the 2014 general election — independently matching the count from the Election Commission's official 2014 schedule and statistics. (Total Lok Sabha membership could reach 545 with up to 2 additional nominated Anglo-Indian members before that nomination provision was removed in 2020, but nominated members are not part of a general election.)