Assembly election: 475 constituencies go to polls in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Bengal, Puducherry on April 6
Phase 3 voting in Assam and West Bengal assembly elections, and single-phase assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry assembly election will commence on April 6. Check the full list of constituencies that will vote today
BusinessToday.In | April 6, 2021 | Updated 05:21 IST
Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Bengal, Puducherry on April 6
Election officials are going to have a busy day on Tuesday as 475 legislative constituencies across four states - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal - and the union territory of Puducherry go to polls. Today will see voting for 234 seats of Tamil Nadu Assembly, 140 seats of Kerala Assembly, 40 constituencies in Assam, 31 seats of West Bengal Assembly and 30 seats of Puducherry Assembly. While West Bengal and Assam will observe the third phase of their state assembly elections today, the rest will conduc
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee; Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal; Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami (From L to R).
NEW DELHI: Polling began at 7 am on Tuesday for one of the busiest days in the ongoing assembly election in all four states and one Union territory - West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Polling is being held for a total of 475 assembly constituencies.
While for West Bengal, the day marks the third in an eight-phase election, in Assam it is the third and final phase of voting. The remaining states/UT -Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are witnessing a single-phase polling.
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Voting underway across 475 seats in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bengal & Puducherry; know about today s assembly polls
The Tuesday voting is the single-phased assembly polls for Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. And, for Assam, and Bengal, it is their third phase. However, Bengal has five more polling phases which will end on April 29
BusinessToday.In | April 6, 2021 | Updated 13:58 IST
Voting begins in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry for the legislative assembly elections on Tuesday.
The voting has begun in four states and one union territory for the legislative assembly elections on Tuesday. More than 20 crore people from West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry will cast their vote at 7 am on April 6.
Only 7.8% women candidates in State electoral battle
GUWAHATI: Only 7.8 per cent women candidates are among the total 946 contestants in fray for the 126-member Assam Assembly elections, leading to discontent among female activists and writers. According to the State s Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade, of the total 946 candidates, 74 are women while, out of the overall 2,33,74,087 voters, 1,15,50,403 are females.
He said out of the 33,530 polling stations set up for the three phases (March 27, April 1, April 6) of the polls across the state, 1,351 are all women managed. The third and the final phase of polling will be held in 40 seats on April 6.
Despite the women being 49.41 per cent of the total numbers of voters, only 74 female (7.8 per cent) candidates, including 23 Independent, are in the fray.
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