India, new delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the schedule of Assembly Elections in Meghalaya and Nagaland on 18th January, 2018. Polling in 60 Constituent Assemblies of Meghalaya and Nagaland is scheduled to be held on 27th February, 2018. The counting will be held on 3rd March, 2018. The term of Legislative Assembly of Meghalaya and Nagaland is due to expire on 6th March, 2018.

 

Following is the fact sheet on MEGHALAYA State

Number of Recognized State parties: 3

 Assembly Constituencies:

    1. Smallest and largest Constituencies:-By Area

 

By Area

Name of Constituency

Area( in square kilometers

Smallest

18-West Shillong (GEN)

1.57 sqkm

Largest

34-Mawshynrut (ST)

1580.29 sqkm

 

Smallest and largest Constituencies:-By Size of Electorate.

 

By Size of Electorate

Name of Constituency

Size of Electorate

Smallest

57-Dalu (ST)

18,606

Largest

15-Mawlai (ST)

42,664

 

    1. Electorate size-wise composition.

 

Size of Electorate

No & Name of Assembly Constituencies

Less than 1 Lakh

All 60 Assembly Constituencies

1 Lakh-1.50 Lakh

NIL

1.50 Lakhs 2 Lakh

NIL

More than 2 Lakh

NIL

 

3.Electors: 18,42,163

 

      1. By Sex

 

 

Male

Female

Others

Total

Population

17,62,444

17,63,562

0

35,26,006

Size of

Electorate

91,2849

92,9314

 

18,42163

EPIC Issued To

91,2849

92,9314

 

18,42163

 

NRI & Service Voters.

 

Number of NRI Voters

1

 

Number of Service Voters

2621

 

Age and Sex-wise Composition of Electorate

 

 

Male

Female

Others

Total

18-25 years

229086

222049

0

451135

25-40

377180

383619

0

760799

40-60

236940

247867

0

484806

>60

69643

75780

0

145423

 

  1. Total No of candidates (Male & Female):

 

Candidates

Total Number of Candidates

Male

338

Female

32

Total

370

 

  1. No and Name of AC with Maximum and Minimum Number of Candidates:

1

No & Name of Assembly

Constituency with Maximum number of candidates

42-Rongjeng (ST)

11-Candidates

2

No & Name of Assembly Constituency with Manimum number of

candidates

23-Sohiong (ST) & 53-Ampati (ST)

3-Candidates in each A/C.

 

  1. Party wise list of Candidates

 

INC

BJP

NPP

UDP

NCP

HSPDP

PDF

KHNAM

GNC

NEINDP

AAAP

AITC

LJP

RPI

IND

60

47

52

35

21

13

26

8

6

1

6

8

1

2

84

 

 

No of EVMs to be used in the elections: 3083.

 

Total no of polling Stations: 3083.

Nagaland

Electoral Roll

Total

Male

Female

Third Gender

11,91,513

6,01,707

(50.50 %)

5,89,806

(49.50 %)

0

(0 %)

 

Assembly Constituencies

Assembly Segments / Constituencies

Total

General

SC

ST

 

60

 

1

 

0

 

59

 

Polling will be held in 59 Assembly Constituencies of state ( One candidate was declared unopposed from 11 Northern Angami AC)

Polling Stations

1. Presently there are a total of 2194 (Main) and 2 (Auxiliary) Polling Stations at 2017 polling locations. Polling will be held in 2156 polling stations of 59 Assembly Constituencies of state.( One candidate was declared unopposed from 11 Northern Angami II AC having 40 polling stations)

 

2. Voter assistance booth will be set up at all polling Stations.

 

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Chetan Sharma is an Indian fact-checker and news writer, writing news for Ayupp since 2014.

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