Overview
- Voting will be held across 4,236 gram panchayats at 37,562 polling stations for 5,619,430 eligible voters, including 2,878,159 women and 2,741,070 men.
- Polling runs from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, with counting scheduled to begin at 2:00 pm the same day.
- Following withdrawals and scrutiny, contests remain in 3,836 panchayats and 27,960 wards, with 13,127 sarpanch candidates and 67,893 ward candidates.
- A significant number of posts were filled unopposed, with hundreds of sarpanches and thousands of ward members elected without a vote.
- Statewide arrangements include about 70,000 polling staff, with district measures such as webcasting at 360 critical stations and micro-observers at 162 sensitive centres in Nalgonda.