1.50 lakh voters for Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation election

Gandhinagar

There are total 1,50,610 voters registered for the election of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation(GMC). Of them 77,896 are male and 72,714 are female.

Polling for GMC election is going to be held on 24 April.

As per the final voters list, 399 news names are added as voters while 57 are canceled.

Compare the number of GMC voters with that of other municipal corporations in Gujarat, elections for which happened last year. Ahmedabad has 38,79,771 voters, Surat 26,54,830 voters, Vadodara 12,47,581 voters, Jamnagar 4,09,154 voters, Rajkot 8,87,197 voters and Bhavnagar 4,58,707 voters.

Gandhinagar which in general terms would be considered as town and not city was notified area. It was a court case filed by citizen and subsequent court order that compelled government to give local body of self governance to Gandhinagar following which the first election for Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation was held five years back.

– DeshGujarat