The Numbers Behind Haryana & Maharashtra’s Assembly Polls
While the 288-member Maha Assembly’s term ends on 9 November, Haryana Assembly will be dissolved come 2 November.
Maharashtra and Haryana are all set to go for Assembly elections on 21 October, the Election Commission announced on Saturday, 21 September, along with bypolls in 64 constituencies across the country.
Counting of votes will take place in all constituencies on 24 October. While the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly’s term comes to an end on 9 November, 99 MLAs of the Haryana Assembly will see their term end a week earlier, on 2 November.
Model code of conduct has been immediately put in place in both the states.
According to data released by ECI, there are 8,95,62,706 voters in Maharashtra and about 1,82,92, 714 voters in Haryana who will be participating in the upcoming polls.
When it comes to Maharashtra, 96.81 percent of all voters possessed their photo ID cards and in Haryana’s case, 100 percent of the electors had the relevant photo ID cards.
According to the data from the Election Commission, the photo coverage in Photo Electoral Rolls of the final electoral rolls for Maharashtra and Haryana is 96.44 percent and 100 percent respectively.
When it comes to logging votes on EVMs, Maharashtra will be using 1.8 lakh ballot units state-wide, while 0.38 lakh ballot units would be used in Haryana.
As many as 1.39 lakh VVPAT machines will be used in Maharashtra come polling day and 0.27 lakh VVPATs would be used in Haryana.
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