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Around 36 lakh voters successful the territory are expected to formed their votes astatine polling booths to elite their representatives to the three-tier panchayats and municipalities connected Thursday (December 11, 2025).
Election officials acceptable up 4,343 polling stations crossed the territory aft collecting materials from their respective organisation centres connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025). A full of 27 centres successful the territory volition negociate polling materials, including voting machines. These centres volition besides service arsenic counting hubs connected Saturday (December 13, 2025). While the 12 municipalities unneurotic person 12 centres, each of the 15 blocks has 1 centre.
As galore arsenic 3,777 of the 4,343 polling stations are successful panchayats and 566 successful municipalities. District Collector V.R. Vinod said present connected Wednesday that polling successful 295 booths would beryllium webcast live. When 277 of them are delicate booths, 18 are hyper sensitive.
Polling volition statesman astatine 7 a.m. and proceed till 6 p.m. connected Thursday. Officials volition statesman the process with a mock polling astatine 6 a.m.
Polling officials heading towards polling booths acceptable up astatine Mar Thoma Higher Secondary School, Chungathara, aft collecting voting machines from their respective organisation centre connected Wednesday.
There are 122 civic bodies successful Malappuram district, including 94 panchayats, 15 artifact panchayats and 12 municipalities. Voters successful municipalities volition person lone 1 vote, but those successful panchayats volition person votes to grama, artifact and territory panchayat wards.
The territory has 2,789 wards comprising 2001 grama panchayat wards, 505 municipal wards, 250 artifact divisionsm, and 33 territory panchayat divisions.
The territory has 36,18,851 voters, including 602 expatriate voters and 51 transgender persons. When 29,91,292 of them are successful grama panchayats, 6,27,559 are successful municipalities.
A full of 8,381 candidates are successful the fray for 2,789 seats. When 6,002 of the candidates are successful grama panchayats, 819 are successful artifact panchayats, 1,434 are successful municipalities and 126 successful territory panchayat.
Election officials said that 5,899 power units and 16,172 ballot units would beryllium utilized for Thursday’s polling successful Malappuram. As galore arsenic 20,848 officials, including 3,476 reserve personnel, volition beryllium connected predetermination work successful the district.
Voters volition person to amusement immoderate of the 9 documents stipulated by the Election Commission to beryllium their identity. The documents see elector ID card, passport, driving licence, PAN card, Aadhaar card, SSLC book, and authorities ID card.
