Maharashtra’s State Election Commission (SEC) on Monday came out with a four-phase schedule for elections to 192 nagar panchayats and 20 nagar parishads across the State, beginning from November 28.
While the first phase of elections to 147 nagar parishads and 18 nagar panchayats will be held on November 28, another 14 nagar parishads will go to polls on December 14, according to an SEC release.
The third phase of polls to 20 nagar parishads and two nagar panchayats have been slated for December 18, while the voters in the remaining 11 nagar parishads will exercise their franchise on January 8, 2017.
Of the local bodies going to polls, the terms of 190 nagar parishads and 4 nagar panchayats had ended. The elections to the remaining two nagar parishads and 16 nagar panchayats are being held for the first time.
In the elections to 192 nagar parishad, presidents of local bodies will be elected directly.
There will in all the 2,485 wards and 4,750 seats in the poll-bound nagar parishads and panchayats. Of the total seats, 2445 seats have been reserved for women, while the seats reserved SC and ST candidates are 608 and 198 respectively.