The nomination process for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections begins

With the release of the election notice on Saturday, the nomination process for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections got underway, according to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

It said that the notice was sent out this morning.

On November 17, a single phase of assembly elections in the state under the control of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be conducted. Votes will be counted on December 3.

According to authorities, nominations for the 230-member state assembly elections may be submitted from October 21 to October 30, and the inspection will take place on October 31.

According to the candidates, they have until November 2 to withdraw their candidacy.

This year, there are more than 5.60 crore eligible voters in the state.

According to election authorities, out of the total 5,60,60,925 voters, 2,88,25,607 are men, 2,72,33,945 are women, and 1,373 are of a third gender.

According to them, there were 75,303 service voters in the centrally situated state, with 2,284 women and 73,020 males. This brings the overall number of voters to 5,61,36,229, they claimed.

There were 6,53,640 senior citizens who cast ballots. There are 5,05,146 ‘divyang’ voters, and 99 of them are NRIs.

Although there are 5,61,36,229 registered voters overall, including those who are in the military, political parties continue to target the 5,60,60,925 people who are presently residing in the state.

A total of 16,83,790 electors were added to the electoral records after name insertion and removal, they said.

According to election authorities, the age breakdown of voters is as follows: 18 to 19 years (22,36,564), 20 to 29 years (1,41,76,780), 30-39 years (1,45,03,508), 40 to 49 years (1,06,97,673), 50 to 59 years (74,85,436), 60 to 69 years (43,45,064), 70 to 79 years (19,72,260), and 80 and above (6,53,640).

In the Sonevani forest community in the Balaghat district, booth number 111 has the fewest registered voters with 42.

The Sailana constituency in Ratlam district had the highest participation in the 2018 assembly elections, at 89.13 percent, while the Jobat segment in Alirajpur district saw the lowest turnout, at 52.84 percent, according to the authorities.

According to the authorities, the Indore-3 assembly constituency has the fewest voting booths—193—while the Lakhnadoun assembly seat in Seoni district has the most—407.

While the governing BJP has so far revealed its candidates for 136 seats, the Congress has published the names of candidates for 229 seats. Additionally running in the elections are the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

In the 230-member House, the Congress gained 114 seats in the 2018 MP assembly elections, while the BJP took home 109 seats.

The SP, the BSP, and independent candidates joined forces with the Congress to establish a coalition government led by Kamal Nath. However, the Nath administration was overthrown after just 15 months when a number of Congress MLAs, many of whom were devoted to Jyotiraditya Scindia, resigned and joined the BJP.

In March 2020, the saffron party retook control, with Shivraj Singh Chouhan serving as chief minister once again.