<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Polling in all the 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala for the 2024 <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/lok-sabha-elections-2024">general election </a>commenced at 7am on Friday.</p>.<p>People started arriving early in the morning at the over 25,000 polling booths in the state to avoid the hot weather that was likely as the day progressed.</p>.<p>Polling was carried out amidst tight security arrangements which included deployment of over 66,000 security personnel and live monitoring of the election process by an extensive webcasting system.</p>.<p>Voting began after a mock poll was carried out by casting votes in favour of all candidates, inlcuding NOTA, whose names are there on an EVM.</p>.Lok Sabha Polls 2024 | Theme-based polling stations set up to woo Bengaluru voters.<p>A minimum of 50 votes were cast in the mock poll as per the instructions of the Election Commission and after clearing the EVMs, actual polling commenced.</p>.<p>Around 2.77 crore voters will decide the fate of the 194 candidates who are contesting from the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.</p>.<p>Two union ministers, most of the sitting MPs, a state minister, three actors and a few MLAs are among the total candidates who tried their political luck this time in Kerala which saw highly active and aggressive poll campaigns by the CPI(M)-led ruling LDF, Congress-headed UDF, and the BJP-led NDA.</p>
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Polling in all the 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala for the 2024 <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/lok-sabha-elections-2024">general election </a>commenced at 7am on Friday.</p>.<p>People started arriving early in the morning at the over 25,000 polling booths in the state to avoid the hot weather that was likely as the day progressed.</p>.<p>Polling was carried out amidst tight security arrangements which included deployment of over 66,000 security personnel and live monitoring of the election process by an extensive webcasting system.</p>.<p>Voting began after a mock poll was carried out by casting votes in favour of all candidates, inlcuding NOTA, whose names are there on an EVM.</p>.Lok Sabha Polls 2024 | Theme-based polling stations set up to woo Bengaluru voters.<p>A minimum of 50 votes were cast in the mock poll as per the instructions of the Election Commission and after clearing the EVMs, actual polling commenced.</p>.<p>Around 2.77 crore voters will decide the fate of the 194 candidates who are contesting from the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.</p>.<p>Two union ministers, most of the sitting MPs, a state minister, three actors and a few MLAs are among the total candidates who tried their political luck this time in Kerala which saw highly active and aggressive poll campaigns by the CPI(M)-led ruling LDF, Congress-headed UDF, and the BJP-led NDA.</p>