A polling booth in Tamil Nadu stands out with just 5 voters

When Tamil Nadu votes successful the Assembly predetermination connected April 23, 1 polling booth atop a elevation successful the confederate portion volition basal out.

A polling booth volition beryllium established at Vellimalai in Varusanadu in  Theni district to assistance conscionable 5 voters workout their franchise.

Polling officials would person to question 3 hours done a hard terrain to scope the booth, which recovered a notation astatine the media league addressed connected Sunday successful New Delhi (March 15, 2026) by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to denote the Assembly predetermination schedule.

Model Code kicks in

Consequent to the announcement of the predetermination schedule, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into unit successful Tamil Nadu successful the evening, Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik said. It would beryllium applicable to each candidates, governmental parties, and the State and Union governments, she said.

The MCC would beryllium successful unit for much than a month-and-a-half.

According to an authoritative merchandise from the Election Commission, District Election Officers (DEOs) person been directed to get accusation connected antithetic and suspicious withdrawal oregon deposit of currency exceeding ₹1 lakh at banks for owed verification, followed by indispensable action.

Cash transaction reports

“If the magnitude is much than ₹10 lakh, DEOs shall walk connected specified accusation to the Income Tax Department for indispensable action. FIU-IND [Financial Intelligence Unit-India] has been requested to stock Cash Transaction Reports (CTRs) and Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) with CBDT [the Central Board of Direct Taxes] for effectual monitoring of the predetermination expenditure of the candidates,” the merchandise said.

The word of the 16th Tamil Nadu Assembly volition extremity connected May 10. As connected March 15, the full fig of electors successful the State is 5,67,74,436, including 5,67,07,380 wide electors and 67,056 work voters. Over 12.51 lakh of them are successful the 18-19 property group, and determination are 2,530 centenarian electors. About 3.99 lakh of them are aged 85 oregon older and implicit 1.05 crore of them are aged 20-29.

75,032 polling booths

There are 75,032 polling booths, including 44,065 successful agrarian areas and 30,967 successful municipality areas. The mean fig of electors per booth is 756. Of the full fig of booths, 265 person been marked arsenic exemplary booths, and 258 would beryllium managed by women. Webcasting would beryllium arranged astatine each the booths.

Of the 234 Assembly constituencies, 44 are reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Castes and 2 are reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Tribes.