Nagaland votes on 27 Feb: 183 candidates including 4 women candidates in the fray
First Published: 21st February, 2023 14:08 IST
The ruling NDPP is fighting the elections on 40 seats, the BJP is fighting on 20 seats, the Congress on 23 seats, while the NPF is contesting on 22 seats
The fate of 183 candidates including 4 women candidates would be decided by 13,16,064 voters on February 27 when the voting for 59 of the 60 Assembly seats would take place.
BJP candidate Kazheto Kinimi won the Akuluto assembly constituency in Zunheboto district without a contest.
The ruling NDPP is fighting the elections on 40 seats, the BJP is fighting on 20 seats, the Congress on 23 seats, while the NPF is contesting on 22 seats. The LJP (Ram Vilas) is fighting on 15 seats, NPP and NCP on 12 seats each, RPI (Athawale) on nine seats, JD(U) on seven seats, RJD on three seats, and the CPI and Rising People’s Party are fighting one seat each. There are also 19 Independent candidates.
The constituencies with the highest number of six candidates each are Tening in Peren district, Sanis in Wokha district and Tehok in Mon district.
The four women candidates are Hekhani Jakhalu of NDPP in Dimapur-III seat, Rosy Thompson of Congress in Tening seat, Salhoutuonuo of NDPP in Western Angami seat and Er Kahuli Sema of BJP in Atoizu seat.
Polling station 71-Merapani in the Bhandari seat in Wokha district has the lowest number of voters at 37, while polling station 12-Usutomi in the Atoizu constituency in Zunheboto district has the highest number of voters at 1,348.
The Mokokchung Town seat in Mokokchung district has the lowest number of voters at 8,302, while the highest number of voters is in the Ghaspani-1 seat in Chumoukedima district with 74,395 people eligible to vote.
The votes will be counted on March 2.
In 2018 “Elections for solution,” was the slogan of BJP as it went to polls. This year, BJP and its ally NDPP are silent about the Naga issue. In the 2018, BJP contested 20 seats and won 12. NDPP contested 40 won 18 while NPF contested 58 and won 26.
NPP won 2 though it had contested in 25 seats. JD-U won one seat and one was won by an Independent candidate.
In 2013, NPF won 38, Congress 8, NCP 4, BJP 1 and JD-U one. Eight Independent candidates won.
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