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Kerala has 75,632 candidates successful the fray for the 2025 section assemblage elections to beryllium held successful December, according to the last figures connected candidates released by the State Election Commission (SEC) connected Tuesday.
The scrutiny of information papers was held connected Saturday. The deadline for the withdrawal of nominations had ended astatine 3 p.m. connected Monday.
Of the total, 39,604 are pistillate candidates and 36,027 are antheral candidates. There is besides 1 transgender candidate, contesting successful Thiruvananthapuram district, according to the authoritative figures.
Kerala goes to the polls successful 2 phases connected December 9 and December 11.
Malappuram has the highest fig of candidates (8,378), followed by Ernakulam (7,374). Wayanad has the lowest fig of candidates (1,967).
The district-wise break-up for the disposable information is—Kasaragod (2,855), Kannur (5,469), Wayanad (1,967), Kozhikode (6,328), Malappuram (8,378), Palakkad (6,724), Thrissur (7,284), Ernakulam (7,374), Idukki (3,100), Kottayam (5,284), Alappuzha (5,395), Pathanamthitta (3,549), Kollam (5,615), and Thiruvananthapuram (6,310).
In 2020, Kerala had 75,013 candidates contesting successful 21,865 wards, according to the commission.
After the scrutiny of the information papers connected Saturday, the committee had approved the papers of 1,07,211 candidates.
Printing started
Government presses person begun the printing of the postal ballots and the ballot labels that volition beryllium pasted connected the physics voting machines (EVM), SEC A. Shajahan said.
The ballots and labels for the grama panchayats, municipalities and Corporations are achromatic successful colour. Pink colour ballots and labels volition beryllium utilized for artifact panchayat elections and sky-blue, for the territory panchayats.
Tamil and Kannada ballots
Postal ballots and ballot labels volition person the candidates’ names successful Tamil successful summation to Malayalam successful wards with Tamil linguistic minorities successful the districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Idukki, Palakkad and Wayanad. In wards with Kannada linguistic minorities successful Kasaragod, the names volition beryllium displayed successful Kannada alongside Malayalam.
In all, 2,56,934 officials person been deployed for the section assemblage elections, the committee said.
