As many as 25,453 service voters will exercise their franchise during the lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh.
State’s service voters include members of armed forces, such forces which are covered under various provisions and conditions laid down in Army Act 1950, members of armed forces deployed outside the State and those serving Government of India outside the country.Postal ballots will be sent to all service voters, whose names appear in the last portion of electoral rolls, to enable them to exercise their franchise.
Election officers will get postal ballots printed and send them to service voters.Postal ballots to voters posted abroad will be sent through airmail.
The number of service voters in districts of Madhya Pradesh is Sheopur-6, Morena-1950, Gwalior-3326, Datia-214, Shivpuri-109, Guna-29, Sagar-1149, Tikamgarh-149, Chhatarpur-92, Panna-64, Satna-2141, Rewa-3721, Sidhi-770, Singrauli-3, Shahdol-172, Anuppur-71, Umaria-2, Katni-253, Jabalpur-895, Dindori-44, Balaghat-167, Seoni-312, Narsinghpur-193,Chhindwara-447, Betul-852, Harda-111, Hoshangabad-1022, Raisen-14, Vidisha-183, Bhopal-1425, Sehore-487, Rajgarh-226, Shajapur-181, Dewas-643, Khandwa-110, Burhanpur-136, Khargone-194, Barwani-33, Alirajpur-7, Dhar-244, Indore-1929, Ujjain-178, Ratlam-247 and Mandsaur-618.
Meanwhile, a total of 89 candidates filed their nominations in 10 Parliamentary constituencies of the second phase on the last day of nominations on Wednesday.So far, 162 nominations have been filed for the second phase since start of process from March 19.
On Wednesday, maximum 14 nominations were filed in Morena, 12 in Khajuraho, 11 in Gwalior, 10 each in Bhopal and Tikamgarh, 9 in Bhind, 8 in Damoh, 7 in Guna, 6 in Sagar and 2 candidates filed nominations in Rajgarh lok Sabha constituency.