Lok Sabha seats

Students still meet two numbers in old guides: 545 and 543. The number to write now is 543 elected members. The President used to nominate two members from the Anglo-Indian community under Article 331. The 104th Constitutional Amendment ended that nomination.

Article 81 sets the elected design: not more than 530 members from the states and not more than 20 from the union territories — a constitutional maximum of 550 elected seats. Today’s actual elected house is 543. Do not confuse the ceiling with the current strength.

The Rajya Sabha is a different house: Article 80 allows a maximum of 250 (up to 238 elected representatives of states and UTs plus 12 nominated). The working strength taught in 2026 classrooms is 245 — 233 elected and 12 nominated. Delimitation after the next census is a legal process; we do not invent 2026 new seat totals.

Key points

1. Current Lok Sabha elected seats: 543.
2. Anglo-Indian nominated pair (Article 331) — removed by the 104th Amendment. Do not add +2 anymore.
3. Article 81 ceiling: ≤530 from states + ≤20 from UTs = 550 elected maximum.
4. Rajya Sabha now: 245 = 233 elected + 12 nominated by the President.
5. Rajya Sabha constitutional maximum: 250 (Article 80).
6. Lok Sabha is the House of the People; term up to five years unless dissolved earlier.
7. Rajya Sabha is a permanent house; roughly one-third of members retire every second year.
8. Money Bills (Article 110) start only in the Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha can recommend, not finally block, a Money Bill in the usual teaching.
9. A government needs the confidence of the Lok Sabha, not the Rajya Sabha.
10. The Speaker presides over the Lok Sabha; the Vice-President is the Rajya Sabha’s Chairman.
11. Vice-President as of these notes: C. P. Radhakrishnan (from September 2025).
12. Prime Minister after 2024: Narendra Modi, third term — depends on Lok Sabha support.
13. Universal adult suffrage: 18 years (61st Amendment). First-past-the-post in single-member constituencies.
14. Delimitation Commission redraws seats; a long freeze after the 42nd/84th Amendment logic is textbook history. We do not invent a 2026 new 543-breakup by state.
15. UTs that send Lok Sabha members include Delhi, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar, Chandigarh, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh — exact seat numbers belong on the Election Commission table, not a guessed list here.
16. Nominated Rajya Sabha twelve: literature, science, art, social service (Article 80).
17. Joint sitting (Article 108) is a deadlock tool for ordinary bills, not for Money Bills or Constitution Amendment Bills in the usual teaching.
18. Quorum is one-tenth of the membership of the House — a frequent one-liner; confirm the rule in the articles/rules if a paper is picky.
19. We do not print 2026 by-election winners or vacancy counts.
20. Anglo-Indian reservation in some state assemblies was also time-bound and linked to the same amendment story — read the 104th text if asked; do not invent state-wise leftovers.
21. Lok Sabha constituencies are territorial; Rajya Sabha seats are allotted to states/UTs.
22. The Leader of the Opposition is a parliamentary practice with statutory recognition in some laws — not a third house.
23. President Droupadi Murmu (15th) summons and prorogues Houses and may dissolve the Lok Sabha, on the constitutional process.
24. If a question says “maximum strength”, decide whether it wants Article 81/80 ceilings or today’s 543/245 working numbers.

Lok Sabha seats — facts (2026)

Exam tip: 543 not 545. If an old PDF still says 545, it predates the 104th Amendment.

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