There are three polling booths in Uttarakhand where the polling parties will have to travel more than 20 kms on foot to conduct their polling duties. The three polling booths are Dumak, Kalgoth and Erani located in Badrinath area of Garhwal lok Sabha constituency. The election commission has set up 10,094 normal polling booths for 70,43,929 voters in the State. Apart from them there are 17 migrating polling booths in the State which has 7,471 polling centres. The commission has claimed to distribute electoral photo identity cards to all the voters of the State. The booth number 5 in Rudrapur in US Nagar has 1,697 voters which is highest in the State. The booth at Government Primary School Srikot Gangnali in Pauri district has 1,652 voters while polling booth at Government Primary School Dugalthola in Almora has 1,602 voters. In sharp contrast booth at laldhang range office in Yamkeshwar (Pauri) has only 20 voters and the Corbet Bal School has 23 voters listed.
The 15 polling parties will travel 15-20 kms on foot, 68 parties will walk 10-15 kms, 594 polling parties will walk 5-10 kms while 640 polling parties will walk 3-5 kms to set up polling booths. The Gangi polling booth of Ghansali at a height of 10,000 feet is the highest booth while Kharmali booth of Yamnotri at an elevation of 9,800 feet and liwadi booth of Purola at a height of 8,789 are other booths located at high altitudes.
The commission has set up 9 booths which are above the elevation of 8,000 feet. The geographical location of booths would determine the time of departure of polling parties. 117 parties would depart 3 days before the polling date, 2,510 parties would depart 2 days before and 7,467 parties would depart a day before the poll date. PNS