Key Points of Assembly Election Schedule

New Delhi, March 15 (UNI) The Election Commission on Sunday announced the schedule for assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Puducherry. The key points of the election program are as follows:
Elections for a total of 824 assembly seats in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Puducherry will be held in April.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced the election program, and with this, the Model Code of Conduct comes into effect immediately.
Voting for 126 seats in Assam, 140 seats in Kerala, and 30 seats in Puducherry will take place in a single phase on April 9.
Voting for 234 assembly seats in Tamil Nadu will take place in a single phase on April 23.
In West Bengal, elections will be held in two phases, with voting taking place on April 23 and 29.
By-elections will also be held for eight vacant assembly seats in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Nagaland, and Tripura.
By-elections for the Ponda assembly seat in Goa, Bagalkot in Karnataka, and Dharmanagar in Tripura will be held on April 9.
By-elections for the Amreli assembly seat in Gujarat, Rahuri in Maharashtra, and Baramati will be held on April 23.
Counting of votes for all seats will take place on May 4.
A total of 17.4 crore voters and 2.19 lakh polling stations will be set up for the assembly elections in the four states and one Union Territory.
In West Bengal, the supplementary voter list will be released after the decision of the designated judges on approximately 50 lakh names that were deleted during the SIR process.
About 25 lakh employees will be deployed on election duty, including 15 lakh polling personnel, 8.5 lakh security personnel, 49,000 micro-observers, 40,000 counting personnel, 21,000 sector officers, 15,000 micro-observers for counting, and 1,444 observers.
The Dhing Gana polling station in Assam has the lowest number of voters at 248, while the Edamalakudy polling station in the Idukki district of Kerala has 693 voters.
Mobile phone facilities will be provided outside each polling station, and ramp facilities will also be available at polling centers.
Each candidate's colored photograph will also be displayed on the EVM machine.
The number of voters at any polling station will not exceed 1,200.
All election-related information will be available on the ECINet app.
Live webcasting facilities will be provided at each polling station.
The Presiding Officer will update the number of votes cast every two hours in the system.
After the voting is over, the Presiding Officer will immediately release the voting percentage mentioned in Form 17C.
All booth-level officers will be issued identity cards.
Complete details of the vote count will be available on the ECINet within 72 hours of the completion of the vote count.
The losing candidate can apply for a recount of the EVM and VVPAT results by depositing the prescribed fee.
Before the announcement of the election program, 4,700 all-party meetings were held at the local, district, and state levels, while the Election Commission held 28 meetings at the national level.
Election schedule according to states:
The notification for the assembly elections in Assam (126 seats), Kerala (140 seats), and Puducherry (30 seats) will be issued on March 16, nominations will be accepted till March 23, scrutiny will take place on March 24, names can be withdrawn till March 26, and voting will take place on April 9.
For the Tamil Nadu assembly (234 seats), the notification will be issued on March 30, the last date for nomination is April 6, scrutiny will take place on April 7, the last date for withdrawal is April 9, and voting will take place on April 23.
For the first phase of the West Bengal assembly (152 seats), the notification will be issued on March 30, the last date for nomination is April 6, scrutiny will take place on April 7, the last date for withdrawal is April 9, and voting will take place on April 23.
For the second phase of the West Bengal assembly (142 seats), the notification will be issued on April 2, the last date for nomination is April 9, scrutiny will take place on April 10, the last date for withdrawal is April 13, and voting will take place on April 29.