Millions of voters in Haryana, Maharashtra set to exercise their franchise

Over one crore voters in Haryana and more than eight crore voters in Maharashtra will be exercising their franchise in the upcoming assembly polls.

Haryana will witness the participation of over 32 lakh more voters this time as compared to the 2009 assembly polls, taking the total number of voters to 1.62 crores.

Amongst the voters in Haryana, the maximum increase has been seen in voters belonging to the age group of 20-29 years.

Elections to the 90-member Haryana Legislative Assembly are scheduled to be held on October 15 while the results will be announced on October 19.

Similarly, in Maharashtra, a total of 8.33 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise at 91,427 polling stations across the state.

As many as 4,117 candidates are in the fray for 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra which will go to the polls on October 15.

Interestingly, a maximum of 39 candidates will be contesting in Nanded South while just five each will be contesting from Guhaghar and Akole segments.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly polls, the state has recently witnessed the breakup of two major political alliances over the seat sharing issue, one of them being the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena and the other one being the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Now, all four parties will be contesting individually in the Assembly elections.

Maharashtra will go to polls on October 15, while the counting of votes will take place on October 18.