A total of 61.26 per cent polling was registered in nine urban bodies in the State during urban body elections that included 63.92 per cent male and 58.29 per cent female voters, as per the information received till 6 pm on Saturday. In Harada Nagar Palika, 59.7 voters cast their ballots including 54.45 percent male and 44.61 female voters. In Chhanera Nagar Parishad, 57.36 percent voters exercised their franchise including 60.8 male, 53.83 female and 25 percent other voters.
Among the municipal corporations, maximum 82.70 percent polling was registered in Chhindwara and minimum 56.70 percent in Bhopal. Among Nagar Parishad, maximum 91.39 percent polling was registered in Chhapihera in Rajgarh district and minimum 82.83 percent in Bankheri in Hoshangabad district. Counting will be held on February 4 from 9 am.
Polling of ward number 47 in Bhopal has been cancelled due to printing of wrong election symbol of an independent candidate. Re-polling there will be held on February 2. Due to a fault, 81 EVMs were changed during polling. As many as 26 model polling booths were set up in Bhopal, 102 in Jabalpur, 85 in Indore and nine in Chhindwara.
There are 417 wards in these civic bodies and 5241 polling booths were set up for the polling in these wards. Four mayors of municipal corporations for as many corporations would be elected for these civic bodies while seven chairmen would be elected for as many municipalities besides 417 corporators would be elected from as many wards election for that was held on Saturday. There were 35 candidates in the fray for mayor, 23 candidates for chairmen and 1612 candidates were in the fray for the post of corporator from these civic bodies.