There will be many people who will be going to vote for the first time this year. If you also want to vote but you do not know which Polling Booth you have to go to cast your vote, then you can find out this very easily sitting at home. There are two easy ways to locate the polling booth, you can choose any one of the methods.
The bugle has been sounded and voting for the first phase is to be held from 19th April. If you are also going to vote in Lok Sabha Election 2024, then you should have complete information about the polling station like which is your polling booth etc. Before leaving home, you should know which polling station you have to go to cast your vote.
Now the big question that arises here is that how to find out online which polling station we have to go to and cast our vote? For your information, let us tell you that there are two methods to locate the Polling Station.
The first way is that you can take the help of mobile app. Or you can also find out this with the help of Voter Service Portal, let us explain to you one by one the method of obtaining polling station information through both the methods.
Voter Helpline App: Find polling booth like this through the app
For the convenience of the general public, the Election Commission of India has prepared this mobile app. This mobile app is available for both Android and iOS users.
First of all, download the Voter Helpline App from Google Play Store (Android users) or App Store (Apple users). After installing the app, you can locate the polling booth even without logging in.
As soon as the app opens, the skip option will appear at the bottom, as soon as you press the skip option, you will start seeing all the options given in the app. To find the polling booth, you have to tap on Search Your Name in Electoral Roll visible at the top of the app.
voter helpline app
As soon as you tap on this option, many options will open in front of you such as Search by Mobile, Search by Bar/QR Code, Search by Details and Search by EPIC No. Let us tell you that EPIC number is your Voter ID Card number.
Polling station will be known from EPIC number
You can locate the polling booth with the help of any option, we have obtained information about polling booth with the help of EPIC Number. As soon as you search by entering the number, you will see the information about the polling booth.
Polling Station Online Search: This government site will help
If you do not have Voter Helpline App in your phone then no problem, you can get information about polling booth online also. For this you will have to go to https://electoralsearch.eci.gov.in/.
How to find polling station (electoralsearch.eci.gov.in)
After going to the Voter Service Portal, you will get three options to locate the polling booth, Search by EPIC, Search by Details and Search by Mobile.
Get polling booth information like this (electoralsearch.eci.gov.in)
We clicked on Search By EPIC option and then searched by entering EPIC Number, State Name and Captcha. As soon as the details were searched and all the necessary information was clearly visible. Information about the polling station has also been given in the results.
EPIC Number Search: How to find out online
First of all you have to go to https://voters.eci.gov.in/. On the homepage of this government website, you will have to click on the Search in Electoral Roll option.
As soon as you click on this option, you will see Search by Details and Search by Mobile options. You can find out your EPIC number with the help of any one of these options.
If you choose the Search by Details option, then you will have to fill all the required details and then enter the captcha and click on search. As soon as you search, you will get the EPIC number.
If you tap on the Search by Mobile option, you will have to enter your registered mobile number linked with the Voter ID card here. After entering the number, enter the captcha code and then tap on Send OTP. As soon as you enter the OTP, your EPIC number will be shown.