{"id":174664,"date":"2021-10-21T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=174664"},"modified":"2021-10-21T00:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:08:42","slug":"women-voters-outnumber-male-in-3-meghalaya-assembly-constituencies-going-to-bypolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/21\/women-voters-outnumber-male-in-3-meghalaya-assembly-constituencies-going-to-bypolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Women voters outnumber male in 3 Meghalaya Assembly constituencies going to bypolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shillong, Oct 20 (PTI) Women voters outnumbered their male counterparts in all the three Meghalaya Assembly constituencies where by-elections will be held on October 30, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The by-elections in the three Assembly seats were necessitated following the deaths of three sitting MLAs, David A Nongrum of Mawryngkneng, Dr Azad Zaman of Rajabala and S K Sun of Mawphlang constituency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest voters&#8217; list, Mawryngkneng has 60 polling stations and a total of 36,751 voters which include 18,986 female voters and 17,765 male voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Mawphlang constituency, there are 50 polling booths with a total of 33,194 voters &#8211; 17,475 female and 15,719 male voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajabala constituency has 58 polling booths and a total of 32,750 voters. There are 16,645 female and 16,105 male voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer FR Kharkongor said that the state has sought two additional companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) for the by-elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The polling will be held on October 30, and counting of votes will be held on November 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong, Oct 20 (PTI) Women voters outnumbered their male counterparts in all the three Meghalaya Assembly constituencies where by-elections will be held on October 30, officials said on Wednesday. The by-elections in the three Assembly seats were necessitated following the deaths of three sitting MLAs, David A Nongrum of Mawryngkneng, Dr Azad Zaman of Rajabala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}