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ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA

Language of Electoral Roll (PC WISE)

Legal Provisions
Legacy Information
As per direction No. 3/4/2018/SDR, dated 31 October 2018 and direction No. l The electoral rolls are maintained Assembly Constituency (AC) wise except
3/4/2008/JS.II, dated 06 February, 2009, and in pursuance of sub-rules (1) and in the Union Territories not having Legislative Assembly. The statutes
(3) of Rule 10 of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, the Election Commission provide that for every Assembly Constituency, there shall be an electoral roll
of India directed that at an election in a Parliamentary Constituency speci ed prepared under the superintendence, direction and control of the Election
in column 3 of the Table below, the list of contesting candidates shall be Commission in accordance with the provisions of Representation of the
prepared in Form7A in the languages speci ed against that constituency in People Act, 1950.
column 4 of the said Table, and that where the list is prepared in more than
one language, the name of candidates shall be arranged alphabetically l Rule 4 of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 prescribes that the Roll for
according to the script of the language rst speci ed in the said column. each constituency shall be prepared in such form and in such language as
the Election Commission may direct.
T5.1 Languages used in States/ UTs in 2024 [PC- wise]
State/UT PC No. & Name Language State/UT PC No. & Name Language
A & N Islands All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi and English Kerala 13 - Idukki Malayalam and Tamil
Andhra Pradesh All Parliamentary Constituencies Telugu 1 - Kasaragod Malayalam and Kannada
Arunachal Pradesh All Parliamentary Constituencies English All other Parliamentary Constituencies Malayalam
7 - Karimganj Bengali Ladakh All Parliamentary Constituencies English and Urdu
Assam
8 - Silchar Lakshadweep All Parliamentary Constituencies Malayalam
6 - Diphu Assamese and English Madhya Pradesh 19 - BHOPAL Hindi and Urdu
All other Parliamentary Constituencies Assamese All other Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi
Bihar All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi Maharashtraashtra 29 - Mumbai North Central Marathi,
Mahar
Chandigarh All Parliamentary Constituencies Punjabi and Hindi 30 - Mumbai South Central English and Urdu
Chhattisgarh All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi 31 - Mumbai South
DNH and D&D 1- Daman & Diu Gujarati and English 2 - Dhule Marathi and Urdu
2-Dadra & Nagar Haveli Gujarati, Marathi 16 - Nanded
and English 18 - Jalna
Goa All Parliamentary Constituencies English 19 - Aurangabad
Gujarat All Parliamentary Constituencies Gujarati 23 - Bhiwandi
Haryana All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi 42 - Solapur Marathi and Kannad
Himachal Pradesh All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi 44 - Sangli
Jammu and Kashmir All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi, English and Urdu 47 - Kolhapur
Jharkhand All Parliamentary Constituencies Hindi 48 - Hatkanangale
Karnataka 5 - Gulbarga Kannada and Urdu 10 - Nagpur Marathi and English
7 - Bidar 24 - Kalyan
1 - Chikkodi Kannada and Marathi 25 - Thane
2 - Belgaum 26 - Mumbai North
12 - Uttara Kannada 27 - Mumbai North West
23 - Bangalore Rural Kannada and English 28 - Mumbai North East
24 - Bangalore North 33 - Maval
25 - Bangalore Central 34 - Pune
26 - Bangalore South 35 - Baramati
28 - Kolar 36 - Shirur
All other Parliamentary Constituencies Kannada All other Parliamentary Constituencies Marathi
Note: Above Statement has been prepared on the basis of information in Manual on Electoral Roll - 2023 & information received from O/o CEO of all States/ UTs.

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