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Because just 20 miles from here heading up towards exmoor is the farm where borisjohnson grew up and his family still owns. there are eight candidates contesting at this time. one of those candidates is the green partyjill lescott and she�*s with me now. your party came forth last time but only with 4% of the votes. this is a high—profile by election. you must be a little bit frustrated that all the attention is really on the national impact but that than what�*s happening in the community...

* Only 7.8% women candidates in State electoral battle GUWAHATI: Only 7.8 per cent women candidates are among the total 946 contestants in fray for the 126-member Assam Assembly elections, leading to discontent among female activists and writers. According to the States Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade, of the total 946 candidates, 74 are women while, out of the overall 2,33,74,087 voters, 1,15,50,403 are females. He said out of the 33,530 polling stations set up for the three phases (Marc...