194 new polling booths to be added in Krishnagiri

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Collector C. Dinesh Kumar releasing the draft list of polling booths for six Assembly segments of Krishnagiri on Thursday.

Collector C. Dinesh Kumar releasing the draft list of polling booths for six Assembly segments of Krishnagiri on Thursday.
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The draft list of polling booths for Krishnagiri district recorded a total of 2,090 polling booths for six Assembly segments. Collector C. Dinesh Kumar released the list of the polling booths in the presence of the representatives of political parties at the Collectorate on Thursday (September 25, 2025).

The draft publication was the result of the delimitation exercise in 1,896 polling booths, where over 182 booths that exceeded 1,200 voters and 12 had less than 1200 voters, were bifurcated. This entailed the creation of an additional 194 polling booths.

With the revised list of polling booths, the number of polling booths for the corresponding Assembly segments include: 319 polling booths for Uthangarai (reserved); 324 for Bargur; 340 for Krishnagiri; 342 for Vepanapalli; 445 for Hosur; and 320 for Thally.

In addition, 36 polling booths that were housed in structurally unsafe buildings are proposed to be moved to new locations and 12 polling booths that were located at a distance exceeding 2 km for the voters are proposed to be shifted to schools in the vicinity of the voting population.

The draft publication has recorded 2,090 polling booths with an addition of 194 new polling booths with the exercise undertaken with January 1, 2026 as the qualifying date.

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