First phase of polling for Gujarat elections 2022 on December 1st involves over 2.39 crore voters

Gandhinagar: Gujarat will witness polling for the first phase of the State assembly election on the 1st of December 2022. The voting will take place from 8 am to 5 pm across 19 districts covering the regions of Kutch, Saurashtra, and South Gujarat.

There are 89 seats for which voting will take place on the first of December. There are a total of 788 candidates in the fray in the first phase. While 718 candidates are males, 70 are women.

The first phase will involve 39 political parties and a total of 2,39,76,670 eligible voters. Out of them, 1,24,33,362 are gents voters while 1,15,42,811 are women voters. 497 voters represent the third gender. 5,74,560 voters are first-time voters in the age group of 18 to 19. 4,945 voters are above 99 years of age. 9,606 voters are service voters.

There are 163 NRI (Non-Resident Indian) voters as well, of whom 125 are men and 38 are women. There are a total of 14,382 polling stations, of which 3,311 are in urban areas while 11,071 are in rural areas. Out of a total of 25,430 polling booths, 9,014 are in urban areas while 16,416 are in rural areas. 89 polling booths shall be operated by divyangs, 89 polling booths shall be eco-friendly. 611 polling booths shall be completely operated by women, while 18 polling booths shall be operated by the youth.

There shall be 34,324 ballet units in use along with 38,749 VVPAT. Morbi65 seat has 17 candidates and therefore there shall be 2 ballet units while Limbayat in Surat has 44 candidates and therefore 3 ballet units shall be used. As many as 27,978 presiding officers and 78,985 polling staff shall be on duty.

The second phase of polling shall be on December 5th which shall involve over 2.51 crore eligible voters across the regions of North and Central Gujarat. The counting of votes shall take place on December 8th. DeshGujarat