As many as 70,000 polling personnel will be deployed at the 16,357 polling stations of Haryana for the October 15 Assembly polls in which 1,351 candidates are in the fray including 109 women.
There are in all 1,63,18,577 voters including 87,37,116 male, 74,79,439 female, 1,02,022 service and 12 NRI voters in the State. Out of the 90 Assembly constituencies, 73 fall in the general category and 17 are scheduled castes segments.
Giving detailed information on Sunday, a spokesman of Haryana Election Department said that in all 1,351 candidates would be contesting the elections out of which 109 are females. As many as 30 Assembly constituencies have more than 15 candidates who have been contesting elections on a regular basis.
The maximum number of 31 candidates are in the fray from Bhiwani Assembly constituency whereas the minimum of seven candidates each are in the race from Shahbad and Nuh Assembly constituencies.
He said that out of the 1,351 candidates, 90 candidates belong to BJP, 87 to BSP, 14 to CPI, 17 to CPM, 90 to INC, 88 to INlD, 65 to HJC, 297 to registered political parties and 603 are independents.
As many as 45 general observers, 21 expenditure observers, five police observers, 10 awareness observers, 16,357 micro observers and about 70,000 polling personnel would be deployed in the State. There are 16,357 polling stations in the State and about 18,320 control units and 24,000 ballot units would be used in the elections.
The Badshahpur Assembly constituency has the maximum number of 3,16,567 voters out of which 1,49,443 are females and 1,67,124 males. Similarly, the Narnaul Assembly constituency has the minimum number of 1,26,804 voters out of which 59,296 are female voters and 67,508 male voters.
Giving details of the female voters in the State, he said that Gurgaon Assembly constituency has 1,41,099; Ambala City 1,07,920; Fatehabad 1,02,707; Kosli 99,636; Badkhal 99,442; Tigaon 98,242; Karnal 97,835; Tohana 95,955; Rewari 95,096; Panipat City 93,843; Ratia 92,427; Yamunanagar 92,905; Assandh 92,678; and Panipat Rural 91,690.