more-in TIRUNELVELI The district, housing 10 Assembly constituencies, including two segments reserved for Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe candidates, will have 2,931 polling stations, as per the draft polling stations list released by Collector Shilpa Prabhakar Satish here on Monday. The tentative list of polling stations has been released as a precursor to the Parliamentary polls scheduled to be held in May 2019. Ms. Shilpa, after releasing the list, said the polling stations, which have more than 1,400 voters in urban areas and 1,200 electorates in rural areas, have been bifurcated to ensure hassle-free polling. Consequently, it has led to the birth of 50 new polling stations – 17 in urban areas and 33 in rural areas – to take the number of polling stations in the district from 2,881 to 2,931. While 20 of these polling stations have been shifted to new areas, names of nine polling stations have been changed, based on the recommendations of the Returning Officers concerned. “Political parties may register their objections, if any, before July 10 in connection with the draft polling station list so that the final list of polling stations can be forwarded to the Election Commission before July 17,” Ms. Shilpa said. On the enrolment of new voters, who have attained the age of 18, in the electoral roll, the Collector said it is an ongoing and continuous process and hence all qualified voters should register their names in the voters’ list without fail so as to exercise their franchise in the next polls. Assembly segments and the number of polling stations: Sankarankovil (Reserved) – 274 polling stations, Vasudevanallur (Reserved) – 271, Kadayanallur – 321, Tenkasi – 316, Alangulam – 306, Tirunelveli – 306, Ambasamudram – 288, Palayamkottai – 268, Nanguneri – 293 and Radhapuram – 288. Sub-Collector, Cheranmahadevi, P. Akash, District Revenue Officer B. Muthuramalingam, Revenue Divisional Officer, Tirunelveli, Mythili, representatives of political parties and senior officials were present.

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