The Assembly elections on May 12 are all set in Dakshina Kannada with 58 candidates contesting from the eight Assembly constituencies.
Candidates
DK DC and District Electoral Officer Sasikanth Senthil S. told the press on Friday that a maximum of 11 candidates each are contesting from Mangaluru City South and Puttur Assembly constituencies. Seven candidates each are contesting from Moodbidri and Mangaluru City North constituencies, while six each are contesting from Belthangady and Sullia constituencies. Five candidates each are contesting from Mangaluru and Bantwal Assembly constituencies.
There are total of 17,11,848 voters in the district of which 8,41,073 are men, 8,70,675 women and 100 transgenders.
2.4 lakh voters are from Mangaluru City South, 2.34 lakh from Mangaluru City North, 2.18 lakh from Belthangady, 2.21 lakh from Bantwal, 2.01 lakh from Puttur, 2 lakh from Moodbidri, 1.95 lakh from Mangaluru and 1.98 lakh from Sullia Assembly constituencies. Postal ballots are being issued for 380 service voters.
Speaking of first time voters he said, “We have made arrangements to deliver the cards to all voters. While the cards have been delivered to a majority of the newly registered voters, arrangements have been made to reach the cards to a few remaining voters.”
“There are a total of 1,858 polling stations of which 517 are critical ones. There are adequate numbers of polling personnel who have undergone one round of training. The EVMs and VVPATs for all the polling stations have been kept in the strong rooms of each Assembly constituency,” he mentioned.
Code of Conduct violations
A majority of the 142 complaints received at the Complaint Monitoring System, are related to defacement of public property followed by model code of conduct violations at meetings of political parties. The District Election Commission teams have seized five vehicles and recovered Rs. 11.84 lakh in cash that was unaccounted for so far.
(PTI)
