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Special elections to 3 section assemblage wards successful Kerala wherever the 2025 section assemblage elections were postponed pursuing the deaths of candidates volition beryllium held connected Monday (January 12). The wards see Vizhinjam successful the high-profile Thiruvananthapuram Corporation wherever the BJP had wrested powerfulness for the archetypal time.
Elections volition beryllium held connected Sunday to the Payimbadam ward of Moothedam grama panchayat successful Malappuram district, Onakkoor ward of Pambakkuda grama panchayat successful Ernakulam, and the Vizhinjam ward of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
Polling volition statesman astatine 7 a.m. and reason astatine 6 p.m. The votes volition beryllium counted astatine 10 a.m. connected Tuesday (January 13), State Election Commissioner (SEC) A. Shajahan said.
Vizhinjam ward has 13,307 voters successful all, including 6,729 women, 6,577 men and 1 transgender voter. This ward volition person 10 polling stations. The BJP had wrested the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation from the CPI(M) by winning 50 of the 101 wards successful the civic assemblage and securing the enactment of 1 Independent candidate. Sameera S. Mikhdad of the CPI(M) had won the 2020 section assemblage polls successful this coastal ward. Vizhinjam has 9 candidates successful the fray this time.
The Payimbadam ward has 950 voters including 488 women and 462 men. The Onakkoor ward has 1,183 voters of whom 582 are women and 601 are men. Both wards person 4 candidates each successful the contest.
The 2025 section assemblage elections, to 1,199 section bodies, were held successful 2 phases connected December 9 and 11 successful the State.
Although the SEC had withdrawn the exemplary codification of behaviour successful the State with effect from December 15, it remains successful effect successful the full of the Moothedam and Pambakuda grama panchayats and successful the lawsuit of Vizhinjam, which is simply a Corporation ward, wrong the ward boundaries.
