Assembly Elections 2021: Election Commission announces poll dates for 5 States

Team Udayavani, Feb 26, 2021, 5:26 PM IST

New Delhi: Election Commission has announced poll dates for Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry

Assam election will be held in three phases,  1st phase of polling- March 27, second phase polling- April 1 and third phase of polling- April 6

Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry will go to polls on April 6

Eight-phased elections in West Bengal on March 27, April 1, April 6, April 10, April 17, April 22 , April 26 and April 29

Counting of votes for all five assembly elections on May 2 

A total of 824 assembly constituencies will be going for polls during these elections. 18.68 crore electors will cast vote at 2.7 lakh polling stations in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, said Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner of India

CEC further said that Door to door campaign to have only five people and adequate CAPF deployment will be ensured at all critical and vulnerable poll stations. Also, all the poll officers will be vaccinated

The West Bengal assembly has 294 seats, Tamil Nadu 234 seats, Kerala 140 seats, and Assam 126 seats. The Union Territory of Puducherry has 30 seats in the assembly.