More than 1.62 crore electors are eligible to cast their vote during the Assembly polls in Haryana.
Haryana Chief Electoral Officer, Shrikant Walgad said that there are total 1,62,60,139 voters till July 31, 2014 as per census out of which 1,02,022 are service voters. There are 87,78,288 male voters in the State including 69,458 service voters and 74,81,851 female voters in the State including 32,564 service voters.
He said that the Electronic Photo Identity Card (EPIC) is 100 per cent whereas EP Ratio is 60.08 per cent and Gender Ratio is 855/877.
There are 90 Assembly seats in the State out of which 73 are reserved for general and 17 for scheduled castes.
Walgad said that Haryana has 16,129 regular polling stations and 4,605 urban polling stations. There are 115 auxiliary polling stations and 11,639 rural polling stations. And, there are 1,977 urban polling station locations and 7,707 rural polling station locations.
In 2009 Vidhan Sabha elections, there were 1,222 candidates and the poll percentage was 72.29 in Haryana. However, keeping in view of increasing numbers of political parties and their candidates, the numbers of total candidates this time are expected to increase manifold.