A total of 222 auxiliary polling stations will be set up in the 31 districts of the State for the purpose of voting on the polling day on December 7.
Disclosing this here on Sunday, the Chief Electoral Officer of the State, Dr Rajat Kumar, said, the sanctioning of these many auxiliary polling stations by the Election Commission had pushed up the total number of the polling stations in the State to 32,796 from 32,574.
The auxiliary polling stations have been sought to accommodate the overflow of voters from the regular polling stations etc.
A major share of 65 auxiliary polling stations has gone to Medchal-Malkajgiri district, while Hyderabad and Nizamabad districts ranked second and third by securing 40 and 31 stations respectively.
The districts of Peddapalli, Jogulamba-Gadwal and Jangaon and Vikarabad are given one each. The other districts for which auxiliary polling stations are sanctioned are Warangal (Urban) 19, Ranga Reddy 17, Sangareddy 12, Karimnagar 9, Nirmal 8, Rajanna-Sircilla 4, and Adilabad, Wanaparthy, Suryapet, Mahabubabad, Bhadradri-Kothagudem and Khammam each 2.
After inclusion of the auxiliary polling stations to the originally sanctioned ones, Hyderabad accounted overall for the largest number of booths (3,866), followed by Ranga Reddy (3,090) and Medchal-Malkajgiri (2,175)