In Chhattisgarh’s three-tier civic-body elections, conducted through ballot paper, a tentative 66.41 percent votes were cast.
The polling was by and large peaceful, barring minor incidents which were resolved at the local level, said State Election Commissioner, Chhattisgarh Thakur Ram Singh while briefing the media on Saturday.
There will be re-polling in one of the wards under limits of Raipur Municipal Corporation due to reports of bogus voting. Reports of Raipur District Election Officer are awaited based on which the final decision would be taken, Commissioner added.
He said polling was held in 151 civic bodies, out of which 10 are Municipal Corporation, 38 Municipal Councils and 103 Nagar Panchayat while by-poll was held at one ward of Municipal Corporation Birgaon and two wards (3 and 10) of Municipal Corporation Bhilai.
Singh said in six wards no polling was held as candidates were elected unopposed. They are Municipal Council Dipka (Ward 8) and Kondagaon (Ward 11), Municipal Corporation Jagdalpur (ward 11), Nagar Panchayat Saragaon (Ward 3), Lakhanpur (Ward 7) and Kotba (Ward 10).
Additional to it, in Nagar Panchayat (NP) Chikhlaksa (Balod District) in ward number 1, 14, 15 no nomination was filed, while in NP Dondhi in ward 15 and Municipal Council Bacheli (Dantewada district) ward 8, all nomination papers were withdrawn and so there was no polling there. Similarly, in Ward 14 of Sukma district one candidate died due to which the election has been deferred, he pointed out.
He further said thus polling was held in 2831 wards through 5427 polling centres against the nominations filed in 2843 wards.