Campaigning for penultimate phase of polling ends in Jharkhand

December 14, 2019 19:19

Campaigning for the 15 Assembly constituencies of Jharkhand that are going to polls in the fourth of the five phases on December 16 ended on Saturday, EC officials said.

A total of 221 candidates, including 23 women nominees, are in the fray in the elections, Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said.

The highest number of 25 candidates will lock horns in the Bokaro seat while the least number of eight nominees will

contest the Nirsa constituency, he said.

A total of 47,85,009 electorate, including 22,44,134 women and 81 third gender voters, are eligible to cast their franchise in the fourth round of the assembly elections.

The voting will commence at 7 am and end at 3 pm at Jamua, Bagodar, Giridih, Dumri and Tundi seats while polling

will continue till 5 pm in the remaining constituencies, he said.

Polling in the first three phases of polling to 13, 20 and 17 seats ended on November 30, 7 and 12 respectively.

The fifth and final phase of polling for 16 seats will be held on December 20.

The votes will be counted on December 23.

-- PTI

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