The second and final phase of polling of Bihar Assembly election in 122 Assembly constituencies spread across about 20 districts will take place on November 11, and 1,302 candidates are in the fray. Polling will also be held in Jharkhand’s Ghatshila, which is going to bypoll.
According to data of Election Commission of India (ECI), the polling will be held at 45,399 polling stations in Bihar — 5,326 of them in urban areas and 40,073 in rural areas.
More than half the electorate (2.28 crore) are aged between 30 and 60 years. Only 7.69 lakh are in the 18-19 years age group. The total number of women voters in these 122 constituencies is 1.75 crore.
The final phase includes Assembly constituencies in Magadh, Mithilanchal, Seemanchal, Shahabad and Tirhut regions. Of 122 constituencies, 101 are general, 19 reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and two for Scheduled Tribes (ST). In the last Assembly election, the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) performance was poor in the Magadh and Shahabad regions, where it won just eight of out of 48 constituencies.
