86.9 lakh voters to exercise their franchise in upcoming LS polls in J-K: CEC
Jammu, Mar 13 (PTI) As many as 86.9 lakh electorate including 3.4 lakh first-time voters are eligible to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Wednesday.
He said 11,629 polling stations with an average 747 voters per polling station will be set up in the Union Territory, where 77,290 voters are above 85 years of age, including 2886 being more than 100 years.
Talking to reporters here at the end of three-day long tour of Jammu and Kashmir to review poll preparedness, he requested the voters and the political parties to enthusiastically take part in the “festival of democracy”, assuring peaceful and inducement-free elections with “level playing field” for all the contesting parties.
