The staggered five-week vote in central India’s Uttar Pradesh, home to more than 200 million people, was the biggest election to be held in the world in 2017. This photo, shot during the third phase of the 2004 general election, shows men and women in separate queues at a voting place in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

First published in the March 11, 2017, 8:15 p.m. edition

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