Overview
- Polling in the opening phase runs from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., with vote counting scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. today.
- A total electorate of 5,619,430 is on the rolls for this phase, comprising 2,741,070 men and 2,878,159 women.
- Contests are being held in 3,836 Gram Panchayats and 27,960 wards after 395 Sarpanch and 9,331 Ward Member seats were filled unopposed.
- There are 12,960 candidates for 3,834 Sarpanch posts and 65,455 candidates for 27,628 Ward Member posts in this phase.
- District Collectors and General Observers are overseeing the process through live feeds as part of the second ordinary Gram Panchayat election cycle.