Fall in poll percentage in Palakkad municipality confuses parties
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The closing figures of polling for the three-tier native physique physique elections held on Thursday in Palakkad district stood at 78.14%. As many as 18.27 lakh out of the 23.37 lakh voters in the district polled their votes to elect their representatives to seven municipalities, 88 grama panchayats, 13 block panchayats, and the district panchayat.
Panchayats witnessed heavier polling than municipalities. When 78.8% of the voters reached the polling stations in the panchayats, 73.5% polled their votes in the municipalities.
Panchayats underneath the Chittur block recorded the heaviest polling (82.2%) when panchayats in the Malampuzha block noticed the bottom (75.3%).
The Chittur Thathamangalam municipality recorded the very best polling (81.5%) and the Palakkad municipality noticed the bottom (67.2%).
A fall in the percentage of votes in the Palakkad municipality has confused the primary fronts contesting there. The Palakkad municipality had recorded 73.73% polling in the 2015 elections.
The United Democratic Front and the Left Democratic Front are out to push the ruling BJP out of energy in Palakkad, when the BJP has used all its assets to come back again to energy stronger than earlier than. Palakkad was the one municipality underneath the BJP rule in the State.
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