More than 60 lakh voters will exercise franchise on Apr 11

More than 60 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in the first phase of polling scheduled to be held in four Lok Sabha and 28 Assembly segments in Odisha on April 11, an election official said Saturday.

A total of 60,03,707 voters comprising 29,72,925 male, 30,30,222 female and 560 people belonging to third gender will cast their votes in 7,233 booths, the official said.

Polling in four Lok Sabha seats - Kalahandi, Nabarangapur, Berhampur and Koraput and 28 Assembly seats coming under these four parliamentary seats will be held April 11, he said.

While 26 candidates are in the fray to contest the four Lok Sabha seats, there are 191 candidates in 28 Assembly seats.

Of the 26 Lok Sabha candidates, only two are women while there are 16 women candidates from among the 191 candidates contesting Assembly elections.