Polling began at 8 a.m. Sunday for the 200-seat Rajasthan assembly, an official said.
Around 40 million people are eligible to vote. Ballotting will take place in 199 constituencies as the election has been postponed in Churu to Dec 13 following the death of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate.
A total of 2,087 candidates are in the fray.
There will be over 47,000 polling booths across the state. Votes will be counted Dec 8 – along with those of Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are contesting all the seats. The newly formed National Peoples Party (NPP) has candidates in 150 constituencies and the BSP is in the race in over 100 seats.
The leading candidates are Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, BJP’s Vasundhara Raje, state Congress president Chandrabhan, Gujjar leader Prahlad Gunjal and Meena community leader Kirori Lal Meena.
In the outgoing house, Congress holds 102 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party 79.
–IANS