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With the deadline for the withdrawal of candidature ending connected Thursday (March 26, 2026), a full of 890 candidates are near successful the fray for the April 9 Assembly elections successful Kerala.
The information was released by Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar connected Thursday evening aft the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations ended astatine 3 p.m.
The full fig of candidates is 67 little than that successful the 2021 Assembly elections.
This time, Koduvally has the highest fig of candidates, 13, followed by Manjeswaram, Peravur and Thiruvananthapuram with 11 candidates each.
In all, 985 candidates person cleared the scrutiny of information papers. In all, 1,254 candidates had filed 2,125 information papers this time.
In the 2021 elections, 957 were successful the fray. Back then, a full of 2,180 nominations had been filed crossed the State which shrunk to 1,061 aft scrutiny.
