According to Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha, out of the 829 candidates in fray in these 49 Assembly constituencies spread across 13 districts in four divisions, 741 are male, 87 are female and one belongs to the other category.
Among the candidates, 167 are of nationally recognised parties, 145 of them being males and 22 females. Besides, there are 50 candidates — 44 males and six females — of State-level recognised parties. There are also 404 candidates (360 males, 43 females and one of other category) of unrecognised but registered political parties. Also in the fray are 208 independent candidates out of which 192 are males and 16 females.
The highest number of candidates are in Govindnagar constituency (34) and the lowest in the newly-created Rasoolabad (Reserved) constituency in Ramabai Nagar district (Kanpur Dehat) — it has only seven candidates.
The highest number of voters (4,11,217) are in Orai (reserved) constituency in Jalaun district and the lowest (2,52,440) in Aryanagar constituency in Kanpur Nagar district. The number of candidates is more than 16 in 19 Assembly constituencies and two-unit electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used there.
The Election Commission has deployed 1,464 sector magistrates and 198 zonal magistrates to conduct free and fair polling. It has identified 2,104 polling stations as sensitive and 2,256 as hyper-sensitive.
For the fifth phase polling, the Election Commission has set up 11,867 polling centres and 17,267 polling stations in which the fates of the candidates will be locked in more than 28,000 EVMs.
The Election Commission has deployed 49 general observers, 14 expenditure observers, 59 assistant expenditure observers, seven police observers and 2,653 micro-observers to keep an eye on the fifth phase.
The polling will be webcast live from 225 polling stations with the help of 2,100 digital and 981 video cameras.
The Chief Electoral Officer said he was hopeful of a bigger turnout in the fifth phase polling compared to the first four phases.
He said that the area going to polls on Thursday had registered 47.57 per cent polling in the 2007 Assembly election and 44.18 per cent voter turnout in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
"Mahrauni in Lalitpur district had highest polling
(66 per cent) and Jhansi the lowest (34.96 per cent) in the 2007 Assembly election," Sinha said.
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