Assam election: Almost 50% voters in Assam are women

Almost 50% of 2.5 crore voters successful Assam are women, the State’s Chief Electoral Officer, Anurag Goel, said connected Monday (March 16, 2026).

Filing of nominations for the azygous signifier predetermination connected April 9 began connected Monday (March 16, 2026) and volition proceed until March 23, Mr. Goel said.

Mr. Goel told journalists that 1.64 lakh voters were added to the 2.49 crore electors named successful the last database of voters published connected February 10. “We volition proceed to update the database until the past time of filing of information papers,” helium said.

Of the 2,50,21,413 voters registered truthful far, 1,25,04,501 are women, accounting for 49.97%. The database has 321 3rd sex voters.

According to the Election Commission of India (EC), 6,28,093 voters successful Assam are first-timers successful the 18-19 years property group, portion 2,482 voters are aged 100 years oregon more.

The EC has acceptable up 31,486 polling stations crossed the State for the elections to the 126-member Assembly. Of these, 3,716 stations volition beryllium managed by women, and 23 by persons with disabilities, portion 126 person been designated arsenic exemplary polling stations.

The Mankachar constituency successful occidental Assam, bordering Bangladesh, has the highest fig of polling stations astatine 402, portion Dotoma, besides successful occidental Assam, has the lowest (146).

The Dalgaon constituency successful north-central Assam has the astir voters (3,17,110), while Amri successful cardinal Assam has the fewest with 1,00,494 voters.

Some 200 companies of information forces volition beryllium deployed crossed the State to guarantee creaseless and peaceful elections, Mr. Goel said. Additional CCTV cameras would beryllium installed astatine each of the State’s 134 cheque posts, the Chief Electoral Officer said.