Puducherry, April 10 The Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe, and Yanam regions have six centers for counting the votes cast in the single-phase Assembly election held on April 9.
Puducherry's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) P Jawahar said in a press release on Friday that while Puducherry, with 23 constituencies, has three counting centers – the Government Women's Engineering College, the Motilal Nehru Government Polytechnic College, and the Government Tagore Arts and Science College (all in Lawspet) – the Karaikal region (five Assembly segments), Mahe (one constituency), and Yanam (one constituency) have one counting center each.
The Arignar Anna Government Arts and Science College is the counting center in Karaikal, while the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School and the SRK Government College are the counting centers in the Mahe and Yanam regions, respectively.
The vote counting will begin on May 4. Jawahar said that Puducherry recorded the highest polling percentage in its history in the April 9 election.
He stated that the polling percentage at the 1,099 polling stations was 89.87. The addition of postal voting (12,936 votes), which constitutes 1.36 per cent of the total voting, has increased the overall polling percentage in the Union Territory to 91.23.
The CEO said that this was a record in the electoral history of Puducherry, which held its first Assembly elections in 1964.