3,097 polling stations set up in Kozhikode

Kozhikode is all set for the elections to the three-tier local bodies scheduled for Thursday (December 11, 2025) with 3,097 polling stations being set up across the district.

Candidates of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), United Democratic Front (UDF), and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and their supporters engaged in silent campaigning on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) as they tried to personally contact voters in their wards over the phone or through social media. The workers also formed small groups and visited the houses in their respective areas. While the LDF is confident of retaining its supremacy in the Kozhikode Corporation, district panchayat, block panchayats, and grama panchayats, the UDF is hopeful of breaching many Left citadels this time. The NDA, meanwhile, is claiming that it will increase the number of elected representatives in the district, especially in the Kozhikode Corporation.

Arrangements

The officials assigned for election duty collected materials, including electronic voting machines (EVMs), from 20 centres and reached their respective polling stations by Wednesday evening. There are 12,66,375 males, 14,16,275 females, and 32 transgender persons as voters in the district. The total number of voters is 26,82,682. As many as 6,328 candidates are seeking the popular mandate.

The election process will begin by 6 a.m., when mock polling will be held in the presence of candidates or their agents. The actual polling will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 6 p.m. There will be three ballot units and one control for the three-tier panchayats. In the Corporation and the municipalities, there will only one ballot unit.

Meanwhile, the district administration has set up a control room at the collectorate for the smooth conduct of the election and for surveillance. It is being supervised by District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh, who is also the district electoral officer, election observer Joseph Thomas and Deputy Collector in-charge of elections Gopika Udayan. Web casting system has been installed at 166 polling booths. Presiding officers are supposed to upload the polling details in every one hour.