Voting began for the by-election to 5 Assam Assembly seats from 7 AM on Saturday. The voting will continue till 5 PM.
A total 7, 96,456 general electors will exercise their right to franchise, of which, 4, 03,374 are males; 3, 93,078 are females and 4 are transgender. Apart from these, there are also 3,165 service voters. 8, 864 electors are above 80 years of age and 4, 998 falls under the PwD category.
31 candidates are in fray for polls, out of which eight in each Gossaigaon and Bhabanipur LAC, six in Tamulpur, four in Mariani and five in Thowra LAC.
The constituency having the highest number of electors out of five constituencies is Tamulpur LAC having 2, 17,432 electors. The constituencies having the lowest number of electors is Thowra LAC having 1, 15,971 electors.
The election machinery has taken care of all arrangements for conduct of a free and fair elections and in a safe manner following all Covid-19 protocols. Each and every polling station will be sanitised one day prior to poll and facility of thermal scanning, hand sanitisers, face masks are also made available at the polling stations.
During this Assembly Bye-Election – 2021, a total of 5,410 polling personnel have been engaged and a total of 1, 869 Ballot Units (BUs); 1, 844 Control Unit (CUs) and 1, 861 VVPATs have been used.
The results will be declared on November 2.
