As many as 36,691 citizens aged above 85 and 12,957 Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) have opted to vote from home in the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies that will go to polls on April 26 in Karnataka.
Manoj Kumar Meena, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) for Karnataka, said that the vote from home that began on Saturday will go on till April 18.
According to data from the Election Commission, Dakshina Kannada has the highest number of senior citizens (aged above 85) who have opted to vote from home. As many as 6,053 citizens from this constituency have given their consent to vote from home in the Form 12 D. Udupi-Chikkamagaluru, where 4,665 senior citizens have opted for this facility, follows Dakshina Kannada. Chamarajanagar has the least at 982, data showed.
