Guwahati: Karnataka Assembly Elections will take place on May 10 according to the schedule given by the Indian Election Commission on Wednesday.
The EC announced the polling day and added that the vote tally would take place on May 13 during a news conference.
The Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar shared information about the electorate, stating that 5.21 crore people will cast ballots.
According to Kumar, almost 58,000 polling places will be put up throughout the state.
“There are 224 Assembly constituencies of which 36 are reserved for the SCs and 15 for the STs. The total electorates in the state are 5,21,73,579 crores of which males are 2.62 crores and females are 2.59 crores. The total number of 80 plus electors is 12.15 lakhs. It is an increase of 32 percent from 2018. It also includes 16,976 proud electors who are 100 plus. The number of persons with disabilities (PWDs) has increased to 5.55 lakhs. This is an increase of close to 150 percent,” the CEC said.
“There are 58,282 polling stations in Karnataka of which 20,866 are urban. The average number of electors per polling station comes to 883. On all the sensitive booths which have been identified, we take four to five measures. Either there would CAPF, or web-casting or a micro-observer. With the combination of all of these, we tend to put more vigour and vigil on the sensitive booths,” Kumar informed.
Kumar continued by saying that 240 model polling places would be converted into environmentally friendly and sustainable booths, and an additional 100 booths would be run only by people with disabilities.
There will be elections for 224 seats in Karnataka.
The Election Commission announced earlier this month that it has made voting-from-home (VFH) available to those over 80 and those with impairments for the state’s upcoming assembly elections.