Second phase of Bihar elections -Factfile

October 22nd, 2010 - 8:29 pm ICT by IANS  

Bahujan Samaj Party New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The second of the six phases of the month-long elections to the Bihar state assembly is to be held Sunday.

Number of assembly constituencies - 45

Total voters - 9,844,981 (5,28,0234 men and 4,56,4747 women)

Total number of candidates - 623

Total number of woman candidates - 46

Assembly constituency with maximum candidates - Kanti (24 candidates)

Assembly constituency with minimum candidates - Rosera (Scheduled Caste - six candidates)

Party-wise list of candidates - Bahujan Samaj Party (45), Bharatiya Janata Party (17), Communist Party India (8), Congress (45), Nationalist Congress Party (31), Janata Dal-United (28), Rashtriya Janata Dal (34) and other parties (168).

Independent candidates - 228

Electronic voting machines to be used - 25,025

Largest assembly constituency area-wise - Warisnagar

Largest assembly constituency voter-wise - Kalyanpur

Smallest assembly constituency voter-wise - Madhuban

–Indo-ASian News Service
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