Collector K. Senthil Raj released the draft polling booth list here on Tuesday.
As per the list, Thoothukudi district has 1,622 polling booths in six Assembly segments, with 14,70,962 voters - 7,18,724 men, 7,52,023 women and 215 others.
Mr. Senthil Raj said the Election Commission of India had issued directions to bifurcate polling booths with more than 1,500 voters and form a new booth in an area which is situated beyond two km from a booth with a minimum of 300 voters. So, Tiruchendur Assembly segment had been given two new booths and an additional booth created in Srivaikundam Assembly constituency.
Now, Tiruchendur constituency had 266 booths and Srivaikundam 264 while the number of polling booths in Thoothukudi (284), Vilathikulam (260), Ottapidaaram (262) and Kovilpatti (286) remained unchanged.
Moreover, places of 28 polling booths had been changed and similar number of booths shifted to new buildings within the same premises. Names of 27 booths had been changed.
The Collector appealed to the representatives of political parties to give their suggestions on bifurcation, shifting, renaming, etc., of booths before the release of final list of booths ahead of the Parliamentary election.
Corporation Commissioner C. Dinesh Kumar; District Revenue Officer Ajay Srinivasan; Sub-Collector of Thoothukudi Gaurav Kumar; Revenue Divisional Officer of Tiruchendur Guru Chandran; and Election Tahsildar Thillai Pandi were present.
