) Polling for Punjab’s Tarn Taran Assembly seat began on Tuesday, with electors being seen reaching polling stations even before voting started at 7 a.m.
The polling will continue till 6 p.m. Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C. said there are 1,92,838 voters in the constituency, which includes 1,00,933 men, 91,897 women and eight third-gender voters.
“There has been no report of any delay in starting the poll process,” an electoral officer told IANS here.
The counting of votes will be held on November 14. The bypoll was necessitated by the death of AAP MLA Kashmir Singh Sohal, who had won the seat with 52,935 votes, defeating Shiromani Akali Dal’s Harmeet Singh Sandhu.
Fifteen candidates are in the fray. They include Sukhwinder Kaur of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Harjit Singh Sandhu of the BJP, Harmeet Singh Sandhu of the Aam Aadmi Party and Karanbir Singh of the Congress.
The Chief Electoral Officer said there are 1,357 service voters, 1,657 voters aged above 85 years, 306 NRI voters, and 1,488 voters with disabilities.
The number of young voters aged between 18 and 19 years stands at 3,333.
There are 222 polling stations set up at 114 polling station locations, of which 60 are urban and 162 are rural