Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao went for early elections in 2018, when he resigned nine months before the completion of his term.[6]
Electoral process changes
Election Commission of India announced that Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be used in all 32,574 polling stations in the assembly elections in Telangana.[7] According to the final electoral rolls published on 12 October 2018, Telangana has 2,80,64,680 voters, which is less than 2.82 crore in 2014 Telangana assembly elections.[8] There were around 2,600 transgenders in the voters list.[9]
Final voters list for Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2018
S.No
Group of voters
Voters population
1
Male
1.38 crore
2
Female
1.35 crore
3
third gender
2,663
-
Total voters
2,80,64,680
Schedule
The date of the election is 7th December 2018 and the result will be out on 11 December 2018.[10]
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