Counting of votes in TN and Puducherry to begin at 8 a.m.
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Chennai: Polling officials busy counting votes cast during 2019 Lok Sabha polls, at a counting centre, in Chennai, on May 23, 2019. . Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 2 : Counting of votes polled in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly election will begin at 8 a.m on Sunday.
A total of 3,998 candidates are fighting it out to enter the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly.
As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 per cent of the 6.29 crore voters have cast their votes in the poll.
Apart from the Assembly election results, the bypoll results for the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency will also be known on Sunday.
A total of 3,998 candidates are fighting it out to enter the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly. As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 per cent of the 6.29 crore voters have cast their votes in the poll. Apart from the Assembly election results, the bypoll results for the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency will also be known on Sunday. The bypoll was fought mainly between former Union Minister and BJP s Pon Radhakrishnan and Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of late MP H. Vasanth Kumar. The assembly poll results will be crucial for the ruling AIADMK government led by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and the principal opposition party DMK led by M.K. Stalin.
Sunday counting to decide fate of candidates in TN, Puducherry
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Patna: Counting of votes polled in the three-phase Bihar Assembly elections, underway at AN College vote counting center in Patna on Nov 10, 2020. . Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 1 : The electoral fate of 3,998 candidates who fought in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly polls will be known on Sunday, the May 2.
While it will be the celebration day for the 234-successful candidates and also for the winning political party/combination, one can also hear Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! cries from some others.
As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 per cent of the 6.29 crore voters have cast their votes in the poll.
Similarly, voting began for the lone Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat where bypoll is being held simultaneously. In Tamil Nadu a total of 3,998 candidates are in the fray seeking the 6.26 crore one day Sultan s or the voter s favour. With 77 contenstants, the Karur Assembly seat sees the highest number of Assembly aspirants. About 1.58 lakh security personnel have been deployed for security. There will be a six cornered contest for occupying Fort St.George though the main contest will be between the ruling AIADMK-led alliance and the DMK-led front. The others in the fray are actor-turned-politicians Kamal Haasan s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) alliance, Vijayakant promoted DMDK, the alliance led by Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) floated by T.T.V.Dhinakaran and movie director Seeman s Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK).
Polling for TN, Pondy Assembly begins
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Chennai/Puducherry, April 6 : Polling in the 234 Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu and the 30 Assembly seats in the neighbouring Puducherry began at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
Similarly, voting began for the lone Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat where bypoll is being held simultaneously.
In Tamil Nadu a total of 3,998 candidates are in the fray seeking the 6.26 crore one day Sultan s or the voter s favour.
With 77 contenstants, the Karur Assembly seat sees the highest number of Assembly aspirants.
About 1.58 lakh security personnel have been deployed for security.
There will be a six cornered contest for occupying Fort St.George though the main contest will be between the ruling AIADMK-led alliance and the DMK-led front.