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Rising Kashmir > Blog > Breaking > Voting begins for first phase across 89 seats in Gujarat Assembly polls
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Voting begins for first phase across 89 seats in Gujarat Assembly polls

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Last updated: December 1, 2022 8:22 am
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Published: December 1, 2022
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Polling for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly election began at 8 am on Thursday amid tight security arrangements.

The fate of the political parties will be decided by over 2 crore voters today, with 89 constituencies spread across 19 districts of Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat going up for polling. A total of 2,39,76,670 voters who will cast their votes by 5 pm today will decide the fate of 788 candidates who are in the fray for the first phase.

Out of the total number of electorates, 1,24,33,362 are males, 1,1,5,42,811 females and 497 are from the third gender. Over 4 lakh PWD voters are eligible to cast their votes.

Nearly 9.8 lakh senior citizen voters (80+) and nearly 10,000 voters who are 100 and above are eligible to vote.

According to the EC, there are 5,74,560 voters who are between 18 to 19 years of age while 4,945 voters are above 99 years of age. There are 163 NRI voters, of which 125 are men and 38 are women.

There are 14,382 voting centres, out of which 3,311 are in the urban areas and 11,071 in the rural areas.

Live webcasting of 13,065 polling booths in 19 districts will be done during the first phase of voting. A state-level monitoring room is functioning at Gandhinagar by the Chief Electoral Officer. There will be continuous observation from 6.30 am till the completion of the voting process, according to the EC.
As per the instructions of the Election Commission, the entire arrangement has been made. In the first phase, voting will be held at a total of 25,430 polling stations. Out of these 13,065, polling stations will be webcast live.

A State Level Monitoring Room has been set up by the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Gandhinagar at Vidya Samiksha Kendra in Gandhinagar, from where all these 13,065 polling stations will be closely monitored. As many as 42 staff/officers in this monitoring room will continuously monitor the webcasting of polling stations before polling begins at 8:00 am. As many as six senior officials will monitor the polling process through webcasting from this state-level monitoring room. Continuous observation will continue from 6.30 am till the polling process is completed.

“In the first phase, a district-level monitoring room will also be made operational in all the districts where voting is to be held. Live webcasting of the polling stations of that district will be monitored in this district-level monitoring room,” the EC said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah held rallies and roadshows in the state as the BJP seeks a record seventh term in office.

BJP chief JP Nadda, Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Mansukh Mandaviya, Parshottam Rupala, Ravishankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal, Nitin Gadkari were among them campaigned during the first phase of elections.

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