Chandigarh: With multi-cornered contests on most seats, Haryana goes to polls today with over 16.3 million voters eligible to exercise their franchise to elect 90 assembly members from the 1,351 candidates in the fray.
Voting will be held at 16,357 centres between 7am and 6 p.m.
“A total of 16,305,217 voters would cast their vote to decide the fate of 1,351 candidates. These voters include 8,737,116 males, 7,479,439 females, 88,662 service voters and 12 NRI voters. Out of the total candidates, 116 are females,” state’s chief electoral officer Shrikant Walgad said yesterday.
Out of 90 assembly constituencies, 73 are general and 17 reserved seats.
2,700 polling booths have been declared sensitive.
There would be about 70,000 polling officials and over 50,000 security personnel, including 80 companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), stationed across Haryana for the election, Walgad said. IANS
