The stage is set for the crucial first phase of the assembly elections today (November 6) in Bihar. 3.75 crore voters will decide the electoral fate of 1,314 candidates, including top leaders such as the INDIA bloc's Chief Ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav and Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary of the BJP.

Voting will take place at 45,341 polling stations, an overwhelming majority of which (36,733) fall in rural areas. According to the EC, of the 3.75 crore voters in the 121 constituencies, 10.72 lakh were “new electors”. The number of voters in the age group of 18-19 years, though, was 7.38 lakh.

The assembly elections take place soon after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which now has 7.24 crore voters across the state, about 60 lakh less than the size before the exercis

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