Nuapada: The final list of voters in Odisha’s Nuapada Assembly constituency was published on Thursday, ahead of the bye-election scheduled to be held for the seat on November 11.
Announcing details of the list, District Collector and Election Officer, Madhusudan Dash said the total number of voters in the district stands at 2,53,624. This includes 1,24,108 male voters, 1,29,495 female and 21 voters from the third gender.
The voter statistics also revealed that there are 1,786 senior voters, 9,429 young voters, and 3,988 voters with disabilities in the constituency.
The constituency includes 358 polling stations. The voter list underwent a special summary revision from September 16 to 29. During this period, officials received 7,791 applications for new registrations (Form 6), 2,869 for deletions (Form 7), and 1,895 for corrections (Form 8). After verification, 10,685 applications were accepted.
Eligible citizens can still apply for inclusion in the voter list by October 10, ten days before the nomination deadline of October 20. The final updated list will be published seven days later.
The bye-election is set to witness a fierce battle among the major political parties. While the Congress has already announced senior tribal leader Ghasiram Majhi as its candidate, the BJP and BJD are yet to announce their candidates.
Sources said that BJP’s core committee meeting is scheduled to be held to discuss the by-election, while BJD has formed a panel of senior leaders for selection of party candidate for the upcoming bypoll.
It may be noted that the bye-election in Nuapada has been necessitated following the demise of four-time MLA Rajendra Dholakia.
