Telangana Assembly Elections: 2,290 candidates are in poll race
LB Nagar constituency tops the list with 48 candidates in the fray while the Gajwel constituency in the second with 44 candidates in the poll race.
Hyderabad: As many as 2,290 candidates are in the fray in 119 constituencies for the November 30 elections in the State. A total of 2,898 valid nominated candidates were identified by election authorities after scrutiny.
Of these, 608 withdrew their nominations on Wednesday, the last day for withdrawals.Accordingly, now 2,290 candidates are contesting from different political parties and as independents. Among all the constituencies, there are 48 contenders in LB Nagar constituency – the highest in the State. Banswada and Narayanpet have seven contenders each – the lowest.
The highest withdrawals of 70 nominations were from Gajwel constituency from where Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is contesting. In Medchal constituency, 45 nominations were withdrawn, the second highest among all constituencies.
Meanwhile, as per the final list of electoral rolls, women voters dominated the list with as many as 1,63,02,261 electors over men in Telangana. As per the electoral final lists, there are as many as 1,63,13,268 male voters in the State and the number of service voters stands at 15,406. The third gender electors are as many as 2,676, totaling the number of voters to over 3.26 crore voters in Telangana. The number of young voters (aged between 18 and 19) is 9, 99,667 and those aged above 80 years is 4,40,371.
Hyderabad district has a total of 45,36,852 voters. Serilingampally has as many as 7,32,560 voters, which is the highest in the State and Bhadrachalam has the lowest number of electors, which stands at 1,48, 713. Elections would be held on November 30 and results would be declared on December 3.
