{"id":196,"date":"2026-04-23T06:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=196"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:17:56","slug":"tamil-nadu-assembly-election-2026-voting-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/23\/tamil-nadu-assembly-election-2026-voting-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2026: Voting Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Voting has commenced across all 234 constituencies in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election 2026 today (23), with polling taking place in a single phase.<\/p>\n<p>The election, which runs from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., sees approximately 56.7 million eligible voters casting their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>More than 75,000 polling stations have been set up across the state, with over 100,000 police personnel deployed to ensure security.<\/p>\n<p>Special arrangements have been made for elderly voters and persons with disabilities, while large numbers of voters were seen queuing up from early morning to participate in the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>With intense competition among major political parties, additional monitoring and live surveillance have been implemented at sensitive polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>The votes cast today will be counted on May 4, and the results\u2014determining the formation of the new government\u2014will be announced on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Voting has commenced across all 234 constituencies in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election 2026 today (23), with polling taking place in a single phase. The election, which runs from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., sees approximately 56.7 million eligible voters casting their ballots. More than 75,000 polling stations have been set up across the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}