Sunday, January 24, 2016

10,316 panches and 95 sarpanches elected unopposed

CHANDIGARH, JAN 24
 As many as 10,316 Panches, 95 Sarpanches and 30 Members of Panchayat Samitis have been elected unanimously during the third and final phase of fifth General Elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutions in Haryana, which were conducted in a peaceful, free and fair manner, with the exception of isolated incidents. According to information received up to 7pm, more than 86.3 per cent voters cast their ballots in the State, and the final voter turnout is likely to be higher.
         While giving this information here today, State Election Commissioner, Mr. Rajeev Sharma, said that counting of votes for the posts of Sarpanches and Panches began immediately after closing of polls and results of 613 posts of Sarpanch were declared up to 7pm.
         He said that according to the reports received so far, the highest turnout was recorded in Sirsa at 91.3 per cent.
          Mr. Sharma added that 88.6 per cent voters have cast their ballots in Yamunanagar, 87.9 per cent in Panipat, 86.3 per cent in Fatehabad, 87.7 per cent voters in district Kaithal, 87.5 per cent in Ambala, 85.9 per cent in Rohtak, 85.7 per cent in Hisar, 82 per cent in Jhajjar, 81.8 per cent in Gurgaon, 86.6 per cent in Mahendragarh, 85.6 per cent in Jind, 87.4 per cent in Karnal, 85.2 per cent in Mewat, 89.9 per cent in Kurukshetra, 76.7 per cent in Faridabad, 81.2 per cent in Sonipat, 86.9  per cent in Rewari, 82.7 per cent in Bhiwani and 82.8 per cent in Palwal.
          The Commissioner said that during the third phase, e;ections were held for 1,646 seats of Sarpanches, 16,126 seats of Panches, 781 seats of Member Panchayat Samitis and 104 seats of Member Zila Parishad. Repolling was conducted in Booths Number 116 to 120 of Gram Panchayat Indri in district Mewat and village Alieka of Taoru Block.
          He said that 27,30,926 voters were eligible to cast their ballots at 5,231 polling booths during the third phase. Of these, 1,021 polling booths had been identified as hyper sensitive and 1,154 as sensitive. He said that about 11,500 single post Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were used for election to all seats of Sarpanch and Menber Zila Parishad.
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