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District Collector Arun K. Vijayan, who is besides the District Election Officer, has sought the practice of each governmental parties and voters to guarantee peaceful polling for the section assemblage elections scheduled for December 11, 2025. Except for the Mattannur municipality, elections volition beryllium held successful 92 section bodies crossed the district.
Speaking to the media here, Mr. Vijayan said a full of 1,812 wards would spell to the polls, including 1,271 successful 71 grama panchayats, 162 successful 11 artifact panchayats, 25 successful the territory panchayat, 298 successful 8 municipalities, and 56 successful the Kannur Corporation. Following delimitation, Kannur territory has 1,847 wards, including the Mattannur municipality, with 129 recently added.
The territory has 20,92,003 voters, including 11,25,540 women, 9,66,454 men, and 9 transgender persons. A full of 5,472 candidates are successful the fray crossed each 3 tiers of panchayats and municipality bodies, including 2,838 women and 2,634 men, helium added.
Mr. Vijayan said municipalities would usage single-post physics voting machines (EVMs), portion multi-post EVMs would beryllium utilized successful panchayats. The territory has completed the commissioning and sealing of the machines. A full of 2,960 power units and 7,620 ballot units, including reserves, would beryllium distributed connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025).
The Collector reminded voters that they indispensable transportation an approved ID specified arsenic EPIC, elector slip, passport, driving licence, PAN, Aadhaar, an SSLC certificate with photo, oregon a photograph passbook issued by a nationalised slope wrong the past six months. Government employees whitethorn usage their authoritative ID cards.
The territory has 2,305 polling booths, of which 1,025 are sensitive. All delicate booths volition person webcasting. Of the delicate booths, 602 autumn nether the metropolis constabulary limits and 423 nether the agrarian limits. He said a power country has been opened to study immoderate instrumentality and bid issues. People tin telephone 9497927740 (city limits) and 9497945648 (district police, agrarian limits) to study instrumentality and bid problems.
District Police Chief (Kannur City) P. Nidhinraj said 2,500 constabulary unit person been deployed successful Kannur, Koothuparamba, and Thalassery to guarantee instrumentality and bid during the elections. Similarly, District Police Chief (Kannur Rural) Anuj Paliwal said astir 2,600 constabulary unit had been deployed successful the agrarian limits.
