85% turnout for first phase of panchayat polls in Krishna district
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The first phase of the gram panchayat elections in 14 mandals of the Vijayawada income division noticed 85.06% voter turnout on Tuesday.
The GP election was carried out in 211 gram panchayats in 14 mandals together with Chandarlapadu, G. Konduru, Ibrahimpatnam, Jaggaiahpeta, Kanchikacherla, Kankipadu, Mylavaram, Nandigama, Penamaluru, Penugranchipolu, Thotlavalluru, Vatsavai, Veerullapad and Vijayawada Rural.
The polling was carried out in a complete of 2,593 polling stations the place a complete of 6,01,784 voters have been polled.
Vijayawada Rural witnessed the bottom voter turnout of 76.45% whereas Nandigama witnessed the very best turnout of 89.38%.
After polling got here to finish, officers started counting and as of 8 p.m., outcomes of elections for sarpanches in 4 panchayats and that of ward members in 16 panchayats have been declared.
Elections have been carried out to elect 211 Sarpanches and a pair of,110 ward members.
Over 6,000 polling workers have been deployed and 320 micro observers, 87 route officers and 43 zonal officers led by the Collector A.Md. Imtiaz oversaw the polling exercise.
The counting course of was being noticed by the district administration by internet casting. Polling workers got a compensatory depart.
