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The 2025 section assemblage elections successful Kerala volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected December 9 and December 11, State Election Commissioner A. Shajahan said successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Monday (November 10, 2025), announcing the docket of the elections.
Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Alappuzha and Ernakulam volition spell to polls connected December 9. Thrissur, Malappuram, Wayanad, Palakkad, Kannur, Kasaragod, and Kozhikode connected December 11.
The votes volition beryllium counted connected December 13 from 8 a.m. astatine aggregate counting centres crossed the State.
Nominations tin beryllium filed up to November 21. The scrutiny of the information papers volition beryllium held connected November 22. The past day for withdrawal of nominations is November 24.
Model codification of behaviour successful force
With the announcement of the schedule, the exemplary codification of behaviour has travel into unit crossed the State. The codification volition beryllium strictly enforced, Mr. Shajahan said.
Polling volition beryllium held from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. mock canvass volition beryllium held 1 hr earlier the existent polling begins.
Elections are to beryllium held to 1,199 of the 1,200 section bodies successful Kerala. Following the delimitation workout successful Kerala, the fig of wards successful the 1,200 section bodies had risen to 23,612. The 2025 elections are being held to 23,576 wards, excluding the 36 wards of the Mattannur municipality successful Kannur wherever elections are owed lone successful September 2027, Mr. Shajahan said.
Elections volition beryllium held to 17,337 wards successful the grama panchayats, 2,267 wards successful the artifact panchayats, 346 territory panchayat wards, 3,205 municipality wards and 421 Corporation wards, helium said.
In all, determination are 33,746 polling stations for the 2025 elections. Of these, 28,127 are successful the panchayats, 2015 successful the corporations and 3,604 successful the municipalities. Voter numbers per presumption has been fixed astatine 1,200 successful the panchayats and 1,500 successful the municipalities and Corporations.
First-level checks person been completed connected 1,37,922 ballot units and 50,693 power units, Mr. Shajahan said.
In 2020, the section assemblage polls successful Kerala were held nether strict supervision successful 3 phases successful December amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the 2020 elections, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) had gained the precocious manus implicit the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).
Kerala has a small implicit 2.84 crore voters. The committee had besides fixed different two-day accidental connected November 4 and 5 for enrolment of names successful the list. The supplementary database volition beryllium published connected November 14, the Commissioner said.
The 2025 section assemblage elections person coincided with the behaviour of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters rotation of the Election Commission of India (ECI) up of the 2026 State Assembly elections successful Kerala. The Kerala authorities and large governmental parties including the CPI(M) and the Congress had objected to the ECI determination to spell up with the SIR citing the disorder and inconvenience with respect to the section assemblage canvass arrangements.
