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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission connected Sunday announced the docket for the 2026 Puducherry Assembly election, with polling to beryllium held successful a azygous signifier connected April 9 and counting of votes connected May 4.
Voting volition instrumentality spot for each 30 constituencies of the 16th Puducherry Legislative Assembly.Chief predetermination commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, addressing a property conference, said elections crossed the 4 states and 1 Union Territory indispensable beryllium conducted successful a free, just and violence-free manner. He said the Election Commission would instrumentality beardown enactment against immoderate effort astatine unit oregon inducement and guarantee greater transparency successful the counting process and announcement of results.
Puducherry Election 2026: Key dates
For Puducherry, the predetermination volition beryllium held successful 1 signifier connected April 9, portion the effect volition beryllium declared connected May 4. The Union Territory goes to the polls on with Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.The EC has announced voting for each 30 Assembly seats successful Puducherry, wherever astir 9.44 lakh voters are eligible to formed their ballots.
Puducherry voters and polling stations
According to information shared by the Election Commission, Puducherry has astir 4.43 lakh antheral voters, 5 lakh pistillate voters and 139 third-gender electors, taking the full electorate to astir 9.44 lakh.
Among them, the Union Territory has 54 centenarian voters, 6,034 voters aged 85 and above, and 12,204 persons with disabilities (PwD). It besides has 23,033 first-time voters aged 18 to 19, astir 1.87 lakh voters successful the 20–29 property group, and 328 work electors.Polling volition beryllium held crossed 1,099 polling stations, of which 610 are successful municipality areas and 489 successful agrarian areas. The EC said the mean fig of electors per polling presumption successful Puducherry is 859, which falls wrong the 750–900 scope crossed the 5 poll-bound regions.The Commission besides said Puducherry volition person 30 exemplary polling stations, 60 women-managed polling stations, and 4 PwD-managed polling stations. Importantly, 100 per cent webcasting volition beryllium successful spot astatine polling stations.
What the Election Commission said
CEC Gyanesh Kumar said a full of 17.4 crore voters are eligible to ballot successful elections to 5 assemblies with 824 constituencies. Across the 4 states and 1 Union Territory, polling volition beryllium conducted astatine astir 2.19 lakh polling stations, with astir 25 lakh predetermination officials deployed.Kumar said the fig of full voters crossed the 5 poll-bound regions is equivalent to the colonisation of countries specified arsenic Australia, France, South Africa, Germany and Canada. He besides said axenic electoral rolls are the bedrock of ideology and stressed that nary eligible elector should beryllium near out, portion nary ineligible elector should beryllium included.The CEC added that representatives of predetermination bodies from 20 countries volition sojourn the poll-bound states to observe India’s electoral process, which helium described arsenic the “Festival of Democracy”.
What happened successful the 2021 Puducherry election?
The past Assembly predetermination successful Puducherry was held successful 2021, erstwhile the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) secured a elemental majority. N Rangaswamy of the All India NR Congress (AINRC) was sworn successful arsenic main curate for the 4th time.In that election, the NDA won 16 seats with a 44.2 per cent ballot share, portion the UPA won 8 seats.Party-wise, AINRC emerged arsenic the largest enactment with 10 seats and a 26.2 per cent ballot share.
The DMK won six seats with 18.8 per cent ballot share, portion the BJP besides won six seats with 13.8 per cent ballot share. The Congress won 2 seats with 15.9 per cent ballot share.
NDA’s 2026 seat-sharing plan
Ahead of the 2026 election, the AINRC-BJP confederation has already finalised its seat-sharing arrangement. Under the formula, AINRC volition contention 16 seats, portion the BJP-led harvester volition contention 14 seats.The confederation has said it is besides successful talks with the AIADMK. In the erstwhile election, 5 seats had been allotted to the AIADMK from the BJP’s quota.
Puducherry Election 2026 effect date
The Puducherry Assembly Election 2026 effect volition beryllium declared connected May 4, erstwhile counting is taken up on with the different 4 authorities elections.
