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Along with Kerala and Assam, the voting for the 30-member Puducherry assembly was also held .
It registered a record turnout of 89.87 per cent in the polls, where the opposition Congress-led bloc is pushing to wrest power from the All India NR Congress-led front in the union territory.
The Union Territory has a total of 9.50 lakh voters spread over Puducherry (23 Assembly segments) Karaikal (five), Mahe and Yanam (having one constituency each).
Women voters with a strength of 5.03 lakh outnumber men who account for 4.46 lakh voters
According to officials, the union territory has 1,099 polling stations and of them 209 have been identified as vulnerable and a total of 294 candidates are in the fray.
The NDA led by the AINRC and the INDIA bloc comprising Congress, DMK and the VCK are the two principal alliances in the race and the entry of actor-politician led Vijay’s TVK has led to lot of expectations.
