Round three of Jharkhand polls - a factfile

December 7th, 2009 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )

Bahujan Samaj Party New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The third phase of the Jharkhand assembly elections will be held Tuesday. A factfile:
Number of constituencies - 11

Total electors: 25,41,042 (Male - 13,57,894, Female - 11,83,148)

Total candidates: 239

Women candidates: 16

Constituency with maximum candidates: Bokaro - 45

Constituency with least candidates: Dhanwar - 10

Constituency with more than one woman candidate: Dumka - four

Party-wise list of candidates: Congress 6, Bahujan Samaj Party 11, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 8, Communist party of India 1, Communist Party of India-Marxist 2, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 11, Rashtriya Janata Dal 7, Nationalist Congress Party 4, others 186

Number of EVMs to be used: Control unit - 3,926, Ballot unit - 6,814

Largest constituency (area-wise): Dhanwar

Largest constituency (electorate-wise): Bokaro with 442,947 electors

Smallest constituency (electorate-wise): Jama (Scheduled Tribes) with 162,094 electors

Polling stations: 3,396

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