Tripura Assembly Elections 2023; all you need to know
Guwahati: Voting will start in the crucial Tripura Assembly elections on February 16, where key figures including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have intensified their campaigning recently.
This time, there will be a triangular battle for control of the northeastern state between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), the Congress-CPI(M)-led Left Front coalition, and the regional outfit Tipra Motha Party (TMP), which is aiming for a dream debut after its stunning performance in the autonomous council elections.
The 60-member Tripura assembly will conduct voting beginning at 7 AM and lasting until 4 PM.
Here are some of the interesting facts on the state assembly election.
This time the average number of electors per polling station stands at 843 and 97 polling stations will be managed by only women.
On the other hand, person(s) (or people) with disabilities assisted polling station stands at 44.
This time 88 Model polling station has been created and 3,337 polling stations will have the facility of webcasting.
In the 2023 assembly election, the total number of electorate stands at 28,14,584, in which male stands at 14,15,233, female stands at 13,99,289 and 62 are third genders.
Meanwhile, service voter stands at 10,344 of which 10,160 are male and 184 are female.
Further PwD voters stand at 17,297, 80+ years voters stand at 37,985 and 100+ voters stand at 766.