NOTIFICATION

ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA

NIRVACHAN SADAN, ASHOKA ROAD, NEW DELHI-110001

No. ECI/PN/38/2009 Date: 17.07.2009

PRESS NOTE

Subject : Schedule for bye-elections to fill the casual vacancies in the

Legislative Assemblies of Karnataka- reg.

 

 

The Commission had announced the schedule for filling some of the

vacancies of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Meghalaya

vide Press Note No. ECI/PN/36/2009 dated 16th July 2009. There are a total of

5 vacancies in Karnataka in the constituencies, namely, 185-Channapatha,

166-Govindrajnagar, 40-Chittapur(SC), 183-Ramanagar and 222-Kollegal(SC).

With a view to fill the vacancies where the elections need to be conducted under

Sec. 151A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 within August and

September, 2009, the Commission had announced bye-election for 185-

Channapatha constituency vide Press Release referred to above. In the

meanwhile, the CEO, Karnataka has brought to the notice of the Commission

that Bangalore Municipal Corporation election is likely to be announced in near

future and there could be a possibility of overlapping of poll period if the byeelection

for 166-Govindrajnagar AC which is normally due by first week of

October is to be announced subsequently. He has suggested that bye-election

for 166-Govindrajnagar AC may be taken up along with bye-election of 185-

Channapatha. The Commission has considered this issue and has decided to

hold bye-election to fill the other 4 vacancies also in Karnataka, namely, 166-

Govindrajnagar, 40-Chittapur(SC), 183-Ramanagar and 222-Kollegal(SC) along

with the programme for bye-election for 185-Channapatha constituency which

has already been announced as under :

 

EVENT DATE

 

1. Issue of Notification 22.07.09 (Wed)

2. Last date of making Nominations 29.07.09 (Wed)

3. Scrutiny of Nominations 30.07.09 (Thur)

4. Last date for withdrawal of Candidature 01.08.09 (Sat)

5. Date of Poll 18.08.09 (Tue)

6. Counting of Votes 21.08.09 (Fri)

7. Date before which election shall be completed 23.08.08 (Sun)

 

ELECTORAL ROLL

As regards Karnataka the present Assembly has been constituted on the

basis of new delimitation order and electoral rolls w.r.t. 1.1.2009 are already in

existence.

 

ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES (EVMs)

The Commission has decided to use EVMs in these bye-elections in all the

polling stations. Adequate numbers of EVMs have been made available and all

steps have been taken to ensure that the poll is conducted smoothly with the

help of these machines.

 

IDENTIFICATION OF VOTERS

In consonance with the past practice, the Commission has decided that

the voter's identification shall be mandatory in the aforementioned bye-elections

at the time of poll. In order to ensure that no voter is deprived of his/her

franchise, if his/her name figures in the Electoral Rolls, separate instructions

will be issued to allow additional documents for identification of voters at the

time of poll in these bye-elections.