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For the upcoming section assemblage elections successful Kerala, the State Election Commission has capped the fig of voters per polling presumption successful municipality section bodies—municipalities and Corporations—at 1,500 and successful panchayats astatine at 1,200.
The committee has slashed the numbers from 1,600 successful the municipality section bodies and 1,300 successful the panchayats pursuing a petition made by governmental parties successful July this year. State Election Commissioner S. Shajahan told The Hindu on Thursday (October 30, 2025) that governmental parties were informed astir the alteration during a gathering connected the canvass arrangements held with them connected Wednesday.
Urban section bodies thin to person higher numbers per polling presumption arsenic each elector needs to formed lone 1 vote. In the panchayats, polling takes much clip per elector arsenic each elector has 3 votes—for electing the representatives to the grama panchayat, artifact panchayat and territory panchayat.
To debar crowding
Political parties had urged the State Election Commission, tasked with drafting up voters' lists and holding elections to section bodies, to trim the numbers to debar overcrowding. They had besides pointed retired that the Election Commission of India, liable for Assembly and Parliament elections, has present capped the fig astatine 1,200.
The Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) had wanted the committee to support the numbers astatine 1,100 successful the panchayats and 1,300 successful the municipalities and Corporations.
33,757 polling stations
As per the fig finalised by the commission, Kerala volition person 33,757 polling stations crossed panchayats, municipalities and Corporations for the section assemblage polls. This fig could acquisition insignificant changes, committee officials said. Panchayats person 28,137 polling stations, municipalities 3,604 and the six Corporations, 2,016 polling stations.
The fig has gone up from the erstwhile 30,759 polling stations erstwhile the elector numbers per polling presumption were 1,600 successful the municipality section bodies and 1,300 successful the panchayats, according to the commission.
As per the last voters’ database published by the committee connected October 25, 2025, the State has 2,84,30,761 voters successful all.
