Central Paramilitary Forces (CPF) will be deployed at 211 sensitive polling centres and 100 ultra sensitive polling centres in the Garhwal parliamentary constituency. This parliamentary constituency consists of 14 Assembly constituencies spread across five districts including two each in Tehri and Rudraprayag districts, three in Chamoli district, six in Pauri district and one in Nainital district. There are 1,230,262 voters in the Garhwal lok Sabha constituency of which 6,25,272 are male voters while the number of women voters is 6,04,984. Informing the media about election arrangements at the district election control, the district election officer/district magistrate Chandresh Kumar said that there are 1,726 polling centres and 2,047 polling booths in the Garhwal lok Sabha constituency.
Kumar said that there are 106 polling centres with two booths each, seven centres with three booths each, 13 with four booths each, three with five booths and one with six booths in the parliamentary constituency. Central paramilitary forces will be deployed at 211 sensitive and 100 ultra sensitive polling centres in the constituency. A total of 5500 employees have been deployed on poll duty in this constituency.
Kumar said that 2126 electronic voting machines will be used for polling in the Garhwal constituency. After scrutiny of nominations filed by candidates, the nominations can be withdrawn on April 23 which is also the day when symbols will be allocated to the contesting candidates. The training of the employees deployed on poll duty will continue up to April 30. The second randomisation of employees on poll duty in Pauri district was done in the presence of observers Vijendra Kumar and Manish Kumar.