The Representation of the People Act, 1950

This Act may be called the Representation of the People Act, 1950.

1* * * In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "article" means an article of the Constitution; (b) "Assembly constituency" means a constituency provided 2[by law] for the purpose ofelections to the Legislative Assembly of a State; (c) "Council constituency" means a constituency provided 3[by law] for the purpose ofelections to the Legislative Council of a State; 4*** * (d) "Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324; (e) "order" means an order published in the Official Gazette; (f) "Parliamentary constituency" means a constituency provided 5[by law] for the purpose ofelections to the House of the People; 6* * * * (g) "person" does not include a body of persons; (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 7[(i) "State" includes a Union territory;] (j) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof. 8*****

1[3. Allocation of seats in the House of the People.The allocation of seats to the States in theHouse of the People and the number of seats, if any, to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and forthe Scheduled Tribes of each State shall be as shown in the First Schedule.]

1[3A. Reservation of Seats in the House of People for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribesin certain Part C States.--[Rep. by the Representation of People Amendment) Act, 1958 (58 of1958), s. 3 (w.e.f. 30-12-1958).]]

1[4. Filling of seats in the House of the People and parliamentary constituencies. -- 2*** 3[(2) All the seats in the House of the People allotted to the States under section 3 shall be seats tobe filled by persons chosen by direct election from parliamentary constituencies in the States.] (3) Every parliamentary constituency referred to in sub-section (2) shall be a single-memberconstituency. (4) Every State to which only one seat is allotted under section 3 shall form one parliamentaryconstituency. 4[(5) Save as provided in sub-section (4), the extent of all parliamentary constituencies except theparliamentary constituencies in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Manipur andNagaland shall be as determined by the orders of the Delimitation Commission made under theprovisions of the Delimitation Act, 2002 (33 of 2002) and the extent of the parliamentaryconstituencies in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Manipur and Nagaland shall beas provided for in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 havingregard to the provisions of sections 10A and 10B of the Delimitation Act, 2002.]]