Puducherry and its outlying regions have 6 centres for counting votes

PUDUCHERRY: (Apr 11) The Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam regions have six centres for the counting of the votes polled in the single-phase Assembly election held on April 9.

Puducherry's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) P Jawahar said in a press release on Friday that while Puducherry, having 23 constituencies, has three counting centres -- the Government Women's Engineering College, the Motilal Nehru Government Polytechnic College and the Government Tagore Arts and Science College (all in Lawspet) -- the Karaikal region (five Assembly segments), Mahe (one constituency) and Yanam (one constituency) have one counting centre each.

The Arignar Anna Government Arts and Science College is the counting centre in Karaikal, while the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School and the SRK Government College are the counting centres in the Mahe and Yanam regions respectively.