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Thiruvananthapuram, April 10 The Election Commission on Friday said that representatives of candidates who contested the Kerala Assembly polls can be deputed outside the security perimeter of strong rooms where EVMs are stored.Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Kelkar issued a press note...

Kohima, April 10 More than 82.21 percent of the 22,390 eligible voters cast their votes in the by-election to the Koridang Assembly constituency in Mokokchung district of Nagaland, officials said on Friday.However, this turnout is lower than the 88.06 percent recorded among 21,740 voters...

New Delhi, April 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday that the process of installing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with candidate settings for the 2026 Assam Legislative Assembly elections has been successfully completed across all 126 assembly constituencies in the...

Agartala, March 31 CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Tuesday urged State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar to use EVMs with VVPAT in the upcoming elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).The elections for the 28 seats of the tribal council will be...

Guwahati, March 30 The process of commissioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections will begin on Tuesday across all 126 constituencies.The commissioning process will be carried out at the premises designated by the respective District Election Officers...

In preparation for the 2026 Puducherry Legislative Assembly General Election, the initial randomization of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) units has been successfully completed in the Puducherry and Karaikal districts. This exercise was carried...

Puducherry, February 25 – Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, held a series of high-level consultations with recognized national and state political parties in Puducherry on Wednesday, as part of the Election...

New Delhi, February 11 The Election Commission of India is conducting extensive awareness campaigns across the states and Union Territories going to polls, including Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal, to familiarize voters with the functioning of electronic voting machines...