3,097 polling stations set up in Kozhikode

Kozhikode is each acceptable for the elections to the three-tier section bodies scheduled for Thursday (December 11, 2025) with 3,097 polling stations being acceptable up crossed the district.

Candidates of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), United Democratic Front (UDF), and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and their supporters engaged successful soundless campaigning connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025) arsenic they tried to personally interaction voters successful their wards implicit the telephone oregon done societal media. The workers besides formed tiny groups and visited the houses successful their respective areas. While the LDF is assured of retaining its supremacy successful the Kozhikode Corporation, territory panchayat, artifact panchayats, and grama panchayats, the UDF is hopeful of breaching galore Left citadels this time. The NDA, meanwhile, is claiming that it volition summation the fig of elected representatives successful the district, particularly successful the Kozhikode Corporation.

Arrangements

The officials assigned for predetermination work collected materials, including physics voting machines (EVMs), from 20 centres and reached their respective polling stations by Wednesday evening. There are 12,66,375 males, 14,16,275 females, and 32 transgender persons arsenic voters successful the district. The full fig of voters is 26,82,682. As galore arsenic 6,328 candidates are seeking the fashionable mandate.

The predetermination process volition statesman by 6 a.m., erstwhile mock polling volition beryllium held successful the beingness of candidates oregon their agents. The existent polling volition statesman astatine 7 p.m. and extremity astatine 6 p.m. There volition beryllium 3 ballot units and 1 power for the three-tier panchayats. In the Corporation and the municipalities, determination volition lone 1 ballot unit.

Meanwhile, the territory medication has acceptable up a power country astatine the collectorate for the creaseless behaviour of the predetermination and for surveillance. It is being supervised by District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh, who is besides the territory electoral officer, predetermination perceiver Joseph Thomas and Deputy Collector in-charge of elections Gopika Udayan. Web casting strategy has been installed astatine 166 polling booths. Presiding officers are expected to upload the polling details successful each 1 hour.