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Kerala has shifted gears to afloat predetermination mode with the Election Commission of India (EC) announcing April 9 arsenic the day for the 2026 predetermination to the State Legislative Assembly and the Model Code of Conduct coming into effect.
Political parties, successful fact, person a choky run docket with little than a period near for the election. The gazette notification volition beryllium issued connected March 16. March 23 is the past day for filing nominations. The scrutiny of information papers volition beryllium held connected March 24. March 26 is the deadline for withdrawing the nominations.
The polled votes volition beryllium counted connected May 4.
2.7 crore voters
As per the latest information released by the EC, Kerala has 2.7 crore voters of whom 1,571 are centenarians. Of the full voters, 1.38 crore are women, 1.31 crore are men and 277 are transgender voters. There are astir 2.04 lakh voters who are 85 plus, and 2.43 lakh who are voters successful the Persons with Disabilities (PwD) category.
A small implicit 4.24 lakh are first-time electors successful the 18-19 property bracket and 45 lakh electors successful the 20-29 property bracket. Service electors fig 54,110.
Kerala volition person 30,471 polling stations for the 2026 Assembly elections. Of these, 6,130 are successful the municipality areas and 24,341 successful the agrarian areas. To debar crowding, the EC has constricted the fig of voters per booth to 1,200. The mean fig of electors per polling presumption successful Kerala is 885, according to the EC.
Kerala had lone 25,231 polling stations for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Kerala volition person 790 ‘model’ polling stations, 397 booths afloat managed by women officers and 31 managed by officers successful the PwD category. Webcasting volition beryllium arranged successful each polling stations.
Of the 140 Assembly constituencies successful the State, 14 are reserved for the Scheduled Caste communities and two, for Scheduled Tribes.
