Ahmedabad

The State Election Commission(SEC) of Gujarat has shared figures of tomorrow’s polling in six municipal corporations. Nearly one crore voters will be able to cast their vote. In last two civic polls( in year 2005 and 2010 ) voting percentage was below 45%.

Ahmedabad
39,83,589 voters

48 wards, 192 seats

BJP 192

Congress 192

Others 85

Independent 121

 

Surat

26,27,657 voters

29 wards, 115 seats

BJP 115

Congress 115

Others 90

Independent 114

1 unopposed victorious

Vadodara

12,27,934 voters

19 wards, 75 seats

BJP 75

Congress 75

Others 21

Independent 55

1 unopposed victorious

 

Jamnagar

4,11,613 voters

16 wards, 64 seats

BJp 64

Congress 55

Others 49

Independent 45

 

Rajkot

8,85,700 voters

18 wards, 72 seats

BJp 72

Congress 72

Others 72

Independent 30

Bhavnagar

4,54,059 voters

13 wards, 52 seats

BJP 52

Congress 52

Others 34

Independent 9

Total

Total 95,90,552 voters

143 wards, 570 seats( 2 unopposed)

1856 candidates

BJP 570

Congress 561

Others 351

Independent 374

Voters 95,90,552

Polling stations 12,616

12,491 polling booths

12,491 electronic voting machines

 

1981 booths are marked as very sensitive while 4,984 are marked as sensitive. 5,526 polling stations are in normal category. In total there are 12,491 polling booths. For peaceful polling, 95,000 police men, 71 companies of central armed police force with over 100 State Reserve Police(SRP) companies are available for free and fair polling. Over 2,20,000 employees are involevd polling process.

– DeshGujarat