Election Commission Announces Dates For Kerala Polls | Check Full Schedule Here

Last Updated:March 15, 2026, 16:31 IST

Fourteen districts comprising 140 assembly constituencies will vote in the single-phase polling for the Kerala Assembly election.

The Election Commission of India (EC) announced the Kerala Assembly Elections 2026 date on Sunday. Voting for the assembly elections will take place in a single phase on April 9, 2026. Counting of votes will be held on May 4, 2026.

Fourteen districts comprising 140 assembly constituencies will vote in the single-phase polling for the Kerala Assembly election.

Along with Kerala, the EC has also declared poll dates for three other states — Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal — and one Union Territory — Puducherry

• Date of Issue of Gazette Notification: 16.03.2026 (Monday)

• Last Date for making Nominations: 23.03.2026 (Monday)

• Date for the scrutiny of Nominations: 24.03.2026 (Tuesday)

• Last date for the withdrawal of candidatures: 26.03.2026 (Thursday)

• Date of Poll: 09.04.2026 (Thursday)

• Date of Counting: 04.05.2026 (Monday)

• Date before which election shall be completed: 06.05.2026 (Wednesday)

In 2021, the Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) – CPI(M), won 99 of the 140 Assembly seats in the state to come back to power for a second consecutive term. Pinarayi Vijayan became the CM.

The main opposition – the United Democratic Front (UDF), led by the Congress – won 41 of the seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won no seats at all.

As BJP failed to secure any seat in last Assembly polls in the state, this year it’s geared up with new strategies and party’s central election committee held a meeting on Thursday to discuss party’s candidates.

According to PTI, the meeting, held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence here, was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Union minister J P Nadda and other members of the BJP’s poll body.

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