Overview

• GHMC and the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer confirmed 398,982 registered voters, rising to about 3.99 lakh with service voters.
• The updated roll reflects 6,976 additions and 663 deletions from the September 2 draft that listed 392,669 voters.
• Officials set 407 polling stations across 139 buildings and asked voters to verify their names via ERO offices, the ECI and Telangana CEO websites, or the Voters Helpline app.
• The electorate includes about 207,382 men, 191,593 women and 25 transgender voters, according to the CEO.
• The bypoll follows the June death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath, and BRS has named his widow Sunita as its candidate while Congress and BJP have not announced theirs.