Arunachal witnesses 53% voter turnout in panchayat and municipal polls

Arunachal witnesses 53% voter turnout in panchayat and municipal polls

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Arunachal witnesses 53% voter turnout in panchayat and municipal pollsarunachal

ITANAGAR: As per the Election Commission, Arunachal Pradesh recorded around 53 percent of voters turnout on Tuesday in the Panchayat and Municipal elections held in the state.

The State Election Commission (SEC) Secretary Nyali Ete informed that A total of 52.89 percent electorate exercised their franchise in the polling held for the panchayats and two municipal bodies till 4 pm.

However, the voting percentage would increase as the commission is still getting figures from the interior districts.

Earlier, the polling started at 7 am amid tight security. Voting was held for 141 out of 242 zilla parishad constituencies and 1,702 out of 8,215 gram panchayat seats, and 23 wards (out of 28), including 15 under the Itanagar Municipal Corporation and eight under the Pasighat Municipal Council.

Altogether 6,500 candidates, including 99 for zilla parishads and 6,401 for gram panchayat seats, were declared elected unopposed. Under the Itanagar Municipal Corporation, five corporators were declared elected uncontested.

A total of 4,89,423 voters were eligible to cast their votes at 1,472 polling stations across the state. Altogether 13,481 polling personnel were deployed during the elections.

In Papum Pare district, the panchayat election went off peacefully. Voters turned out in large numbers to cast their ballots for 14 zilla parishad members and 153 gram panchayat members. The Yupia ADC informed that there will be four counting centres – Yupia, Sagalee, Balijan and Kimin – and all polling materials are reported to be stored in the strong room of the respective counting centres.

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Fifty-five percent of voters in the Itanagar capital region (ICR) exercised their adult franchise across 47 polling stations for the election to the IMC.

The election to the IMC was announced for 20 wards, out of which corporators of five wards (12, 14, 18, 19 and 20) have already been elected unopposed.

Deputy Commissioner Komkar Dulom informed that magistrates, sector magistrates, flying squads and the police were on their toes since early morning to ensure that the voting process was conducted smoothly.

The municipal returning officers and assistant municipal returning officers were also on the run to take stock of the situation from time to time and to tend to any issue with regard to casting of vote.

Election observer Ranphoa Ngowa, the DC, and ICR SP Jimmy Chiram also visited all the polling stations and monitored the election process.

In East Siang, the simultaneous panchayat and municipal elections passed off peacefully. Safety protocols like wearing masks, maintaining social distancing inside the polling booths and sanitization were followed.

Although the complete polling figures for Bogong-I, Bogong-II, Bosing-I and Bosing-II zilla parishad constituencies were not available till the filing of this report, official sources informed that 62.34 percent electorate exercised their franchise until 4 pm. The total number of voters was 32,699.

For the Pasighat Municipal Council, 17 candidates are in the fray for eight seats and the total eligible voters were 10,778. According to an official source, 48.8 percent electorate exercised their franchise till the filing of this report.

In Changlang district, election to the Vijaynagar ZP constituency seat along with 40 GPM seats has been kept in abeyance by the commission due to various reasons.

In Tawang, voting took place at 17 polling stations under the Zemithang Dudungkhar zilla parishad constituency, 20 polling stations under the Lumla zilla parishad constituency and the only gram panchayat constituency of Gormang Nodo.

Out of six zilla parishad constituencies in Tawang district, four have already been won uncontested, and out of 311 gram panchayat seats, 309 have been won uncontested. One gram panchayat seat was rejected during scrutiny.

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Edited By: Admin
Published On: Dec 23, 2020
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