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Telangana Releases Five-Phase Schedule for Rural Local-Body Elections

The timetable follows court-directed deadlines after local bodies lapsed last year.

A man in a red polo shirt is seated at a table, interacting with two women during an election. The man is holding the hand of one of the women, who is wearing a bright orange and yellow sari and holding a small stack of papers or ballots. The second woman, wearing a cream-colored headscarf and shawl, is standing between the man and the other woman, and appears to be interacting with a small electronic device or ballot box on the table. In the background, another man in a pink shirt is partially visible behind a cardboard voting screen. A sign in Hindi is posted on the light blue wall on the left. The scene is brightly lit by a window on the left.
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Telangana rural local body elections to be held in five phases in Oct-Nov

Overview

  • Election notification will be issued on October 9, with MPTC and ZPTC polling on October 23 and October 27 and counting on November 11.
  • Gram Panchayat voting will be held on October 31, November 4 and November 8, with results declared the same day in each phase.
  • Nomination windows for Gram Panchayats run October 17–19 for the first phase, filing on October 23 for the second phase with withdrawals by October 27, and filing before October 28 for the third phase with withdrawals by October 31.
  • The exercise spans all 31 districts and 565 mandals, covering elections to 5,749 MPTCs and 565 ZPTCs alongside polls across 12,733 gram panchayats.
  • Ballot papers and boxes will be used, ballot boxes are being sourced from Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, 1.67 crore rural voters are eligible, and the Model Code of Conduct is in force.