Stage set for counting in Telangana and AP
on May 15, 2014
Lok sabha election results 2014: The stage is set for counting of votes polled in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and assembly for andhra,telangana amid tight security Tomorrow.
The Election Commission has made elaborate security arrangements for counting of votes at 168 centres in 79 locations.
Votes polled for 42 Lok Sabha and 294 assembly seats will begin early in the morning. State Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwarlal said the first result is expected at 10 a.m. while the entire process was likely to be completed by 5 p.m.
The poll officials have arranged 6,955 counting tables, which will be manned by counting personnel. There will be one observer at each centre to oversee the process.
Representatives from Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), the manufacturers of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), will be available at all the centres to attend to any technical problem.
In the elections held in two phases, 48.16 million or 74.24 percent of total 64.88 million voters had cast their votes.