What is graduate constituency election

Visakhapatnam The last date for registering of names for the upcoming MLC elections is Monday (Feburary 13). The Election Commission of India (ECI) has allowed graduates, who completed their graduation by October 30, 2019, to register their names to exercise their vote, with the last date extended to February 13. The Commission has earlier announced the list of registered voters on December 30, 2022, but has extended the date for registration till Febuary 13. Speaking to The Hindu on Sunday, District Collector, A. Mallikarjuna, who is the Returning Officer for the election, said “All the applications, filed 10 days ahead of the date of nominations (February 23) will be disposed of and considered for voting. Applications filed subsequently will also be disposed of but will not be considered for voting as per the ECI norms.” The notification for MLC elections will be issued on February 16. The last date for filing of nominations is February 23. Scrutiny will be done on February 24. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is February 27. Polling for election of new MLCs will be held on March 13 and counting of votes will take place on March 16. On the other hand, BJP has finally announced the sitting MLC PVN Madhav on Saturday as its candidate again for the MLC election for North Coast Andhra Graduate Constituency (NCAGC). With this decision, Mr. Madhav will contest the elections with key candidates Sitamraju Sudhakar from YSR Congress Party, Chiranjeevi Rao from Telugu D...

By Express News Service VISAKHAPATNAM/TIRUPATI: In a setback to the ruling YSRC, TDP won the North Andhra Graduate MLC seat as its candidate, Vepada Chiranjeevi Rao, secured the required 94,510 votes in second preferential counting on Friday. At the end of eighth round of first preference vote, Chiranjeevi was leading with 27,350 votes against YSRC candidate Sitamraju Sudhakar. The TDP candidate polled 82,956 votes, but was 11,551 votes short of the magic figure. Following this, second preference counting was taken up.With 786 second preference votes from 32 independents, 3,000 from BJP’s candidate PVN Madhav and 8,000 votes from PDF (Progressive Democratic Front) pick Ramaprabha, Chiranjeevi was declared winner. Elections to five MLC seats under Teachers and Graduates quota were held on March 13 and the counting began on Thursday.Election to North Andhra Graduates constituency was a keenly fought battle as senior YSRC leaders terming it a semi-final and even appealed to the people to ‘gift’ the seat to the Chief Minister.“The outcome clearly indicates the beginning of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s downfall,” TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh remarked. Asserting that the election result was proof that voters were against the government, Former minister and TDP MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao said, “While YSRC announced its candidate six months ago, the TDP declared its nominee only on February 1. The mandate is against Vizag being announced as executive capital.” Stating t...

Along with the elections to the five state assemblies of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand, the Election Commission of India has also announced elections to fill up vacancies in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka legislative councils due to the retirement or resignation of members who represented the These are constituencies in which only teachers and graduates respectively are eligible to vote. The idea may have been that the representation would be better if educated people alone were entitled to vote for a representative to the legislative council. Does the idea hold good now? To curb criminality in politics and the use of money and muscle power by the candidates, it was thought that it would be better if only the highly educated and the intellectuals were allowed to vote. The thought process was that this would result in the election of clean, honest and sincere candidates as the polity would grow above caste, community and religious lines. But today, when a host of new professions have come into being and are attracting the best of talent with educated citizens, such an exercise no longer makes much sense. Do all the states in the country have such constituencies? These elections are only held in the seven bi-cameral states of the country. Along with a legislative assembly, they also possess a legislative council or an upper house, which has a fixed term of six years like the Rajya Sabha, one-third of whose members retire every two years. The s...

• • • Karnataka MLC Election Results 2022: Basavaraj Horatti Wins West Teachers Constituency, Counting Underway Karnataka MLC Election Results 2022: Basavaraj Horatti Wins West Teachers Constituency, Counting Underway Karnataka MLC elections: India.Com brings you latest updates of election results from North-West Graduates’, South Graduates’, North-West Teachers’, and West Teachers’ constituencies. Stay tuned to this place for all the latest updates on Karnataka MLC Election Results 2022. Karnataka MLC Election Results 2022 : The counting of votes for the Karnataka Legislative Council biennial election for two graduate and two teacher constituency seats is underway. There were 49 candidates in the fray, including four women. For the unversed, the polling was held between 8 am and 5 pm on June 13 Monday across 607 polling stations. The results of this poll are crucial for the ruling BJP, to maintain its majority in the 75-member upper house, that it recently gained, following the unopposed election of four of its candidates during the biennial polls for seven MLC seats in the state elected by MLAs, last month. While the Congress and BJP had fielded one candidate each in all the four constituencies: North-West Graduates’, South Graduates’, North-West Teachers’, and West Teachers’, the JD(S) has candidates in the fray in three constituencies other than the North-West Graduates’ constituency, the remaining candidates are all either independents or from unrecognised parties. St...

No. 37/LC/INST/ECI/FUNC/ERD/ER/2016 Dated: 5th September, 2016 Preparation of Electoral Rolls of Graduates' and Teachers' Constituencies of the Legislative Councils - Revised instructions -regarding. The Graduate / Teacher MLC Constituencies Election 2022 Notification has been released. The Revision of Electoral Rolls for Graduate MLC Constituency, Teacher MLC Constituency has been started. Here is the complete information and All Useful Links at One place for the Teacher/ Graduate MLC Voter Revision. Description Download LInk Form 18 PDF for Graduate MLC Voter Registration Form 19 PDF for Teacher MLC Voter Registration Online Graduate MLC Voter Registration Online Form 18 Online Teacher MLC Voter Registration Online Form 19 Graduate MLC Voter Eligibility in Detail Teacher MLC Voter Eligibility in Detail Qualifications/ Univerisities accepted for Graduate MLC Voter Registratinon Graduate/Teacher MLC Voter Registration Schedule Graduates' MLC Constituencies Voter Enrolment EligibilityQualifications/eligibility Accordingly, a person who has been, for at least three years before the qualifying date, a graduate of any University in the territory of India or has been in possession of equivalent qualifications as prescribed and is ordinarily resident of the concerned constituency is entitled to be registered as an elector in a Graduates' Constituency. According to Section 27 (5) (a) of Representation of the People Act, 1950, a person must fulfil the following conditions for bein...

A power tussle is simmering within the state unit of the BJP ahead of the Maharashtra State Legislative Council Teacher and Graduate constituency polls, scheduled to be held on December 1. The Opposition BJP, which is set to lose its upper hand in the council to Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena combine, is facing challenges in selection of candidates. What are the Graduate and Teacher constituency elections in the state legislative council? There are seven states, including Maharashtra, which have a two-tier state legislature – State Legislative Assembly and State Legislative Council. The Maharashtra Legislative Council, also called the upper house, has 78 seats. Of the total 78 seats, seven seats each are set aside for Graduate and Teacher constituencies. These constituencies are in Mumbai, Pune, Konkan, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Amravati and Nashik divisions. The election for 30 seats are held through state assembly members, while local bodies across Maharashtra elect 22 others. The Governor nominates 12 candidates from the field of art, literature, music, social work and cooperative sector. Who can contest the Teacher and Graduate constituency polls? Candidates for these elections should hold a minimum graduate qualification, and they can represent any mainstream political party or can even contest as an independent candidate. Who can vote? Unlike the Assembly and In a Graduate constituency poll, the voter must be a graduate from a recognized university of India. For the Teacher c...

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No. The Representation of the People Act, 1950 defines who is qualified to be enrolled as a voter for these constituencies. Section 27 (5) (a) of the Act specifies that only those who have been graduates for at least three years or possess a certificate that the state government and Election Commission recognize as equivalent to a degree are qualified to be enrolled in the voter rolls. What about teachers? The same Act, under Section 27 (5) (b), specifies that only someone who has been engaged in teaching for a total period of at least three years out of the previous six years is eligible to be a voter. Also, the teaching must be in an educational institution recognized by the state government and the EC under the RP Act and of a level not below secondary school. What is the for these constituencies? At the time the Constitution was drafted, in 1950, there was a feeling that having some members of the Council elected only by the educated would help reduce the effects of caste, religion, money or muscle power. Over 80% of the population was illiterate at the time. Today, however, there are many who question this provision and see it as undemocratic and patronizing towards those who aren't much educated. How large are the electorates for these constituencies? It is easiest to understand how small they are by taking the example of the Nagpur division graduate constituency in Maharashtra, which just had an election. Since Maharashtra has a 78-member legislative council, it has...

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